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Savo Vocational College is a vocational school run by the Savo Consortium for Education, operating at various campuses in the municipalities of Kuopio, Iisalmi, Varkaus and Siilinjärvi in Finland. In 2015, the vocational school had 5,721 students.
There are 24 different universities of applied sciences across the country. All polytechnics in Finland operate under the jurisdiction of the Finnish Ministry of Education except the Högskolan på Åland and Police College, which are administered by the Government of Åland and Ministry of Interior respectively.
Salpaus provides vocational upper-secondary and adult education and training in the fields defined by the Ministry of Education: Culture; Humanities and education; Natural resources and the environment; Natural sciences; Social science, business and administration; Social services, health and sport; Technology, communication and transport
The Police University College (Finnish: Poliisiammattikorkeakoulu (Polamk), Swedish: Polisyrkeshögskolan) is a university of applied sciences in Tampere, Finland providing police academy training and research under the Ministry of the Interior for the Police of Finland and other Finnish law enforcement units.
The Metropolia University of Applied Sciences is the largest International University of Applied Sciences in Finland. International activities at Metropolia include international degree programs, student and teacher mobility, work placement opportunities abroad, and other projects.
Information on education in Finland, OECD - Contains indicators and information about Finland and how it compares to other OECD and non-OECD countries; Diagram of Finnish education system, OECD - Using 1997 ISCED classification of programmes and typical ages. Also in country language; Vocational Education in Finland, UNESCO-UNEVOC
The Finnish tertiary education system follows a “dual model”, where Finnish universities are tasked with scientific research and producing new knowledge whereas the UAS have a more vocational or R&D orientation. In light of this, although (akin to universities) tertiary level degrees are indeed offered by the UAS, they are not equivalent to ...
The first Finnish citizen to obtain a driving licence was author and businessman Yrjö Weilin [] (1875–1930), who obtained his driver's licence in 1907. [1] The first driving schools in the country were established in the 1910s, and in 1922 the Eduskunta approved several regulations on automobile traffic which also standardised on Finnish driver licences for the first time.