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Studying in Laurea UAS and especially in it´s Hyvinkää campus

Erkki Saari (Dr. Soc. Sc.)Senior lecturer,

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Finnish Education System

• The Finnish education system consists of pre-school education, comprehensive school, post-comprehensive general and vocational education, higher education and adult education.• Higher education is

provided by 16 academic universities and 25 universities of applied sciences.

Source: Ministry of Education and Culture.

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Laurea – Prime Mover• Laurea is a research-oriented and developmental

university of applied sciences that produces new competence.• Website: http://www.laurea.fi/en/Pages/default.aspx

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Laurea Hyvinkää campus and other Laurea´s campuses

• Laurea Hyvinkää campus is the northmost campus of Laurea´s campuses. It´s located In Hyvinkää town around 60 kilometers north of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Laurea University of Applied

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Operating environment of Laurea• Laurea operates in the Greater Helsinki

Metropolitan Area, which produces approximately 50 % of Finland´s gross domestic product. In its operating environment, Laurea is specializing in service innovations and focusing on regional development of the metropolitan area.

Laurea´s strategic intent 2015

• In 2015 Laurea will be an internationally acknowledged university of applied sciences specializing in future expertise and regional development in the metropolitan area.

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The values and focus areas of Laurea

Values• Sense of community• Social responsibility• Creativity

Focus areas• Service operations• Nursing expertise and ability to cope at home• Safety and social responsibility

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Laurea is a networked, multi-disciplinary and international promoter

of students’ professional growth

• Laurea offers 17 Bachelor's Degree Programmes and 14 Master's Degree Programmes.• Students can supplement their basic studies with

optional studies from any other degree programme, in order to build their desired career paths.• At Laurea, each student participates in genuine

project partnerships with companies and organizations. • Close cooperation with the world of work makes

studying at Laurea creative, comprehensive and experiential.

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Laurea Hyvinkää – A campus of innovative learning environments

• Laurea Hyvinkää campus is an innovative learning environment with circa 1200 students.• It trains in its Bachelor

degree programmes experts in nursing, social services and business administration.• It also offers Master

degree programmes in health care, social services and business administration. Laurea University of Applied

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Learning by Developing• Laurea Hyvinkää campus

has advanced teaching methods and a multidisciplinary

network of employer contacts, international partners, development projects and innovative learning environments

that support the students´ development into experts and that generate competence for developing the private, public and third sectors.

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Degree programme (B.A.) inSocial Services 1/2

• In Degree programme in social services students learn about the working environment, customers, working methods and development of social services. • Studies emphasize in mental health clients, substance abusers and crisis

work preventing the marginalization and guiding social

work early childhood education.• In their work bachelors of social services support

different aged people, families and communities. Social worker who works as an educator or mentor contributes especially to the welfare of children and young people for example in day care centers, child welfare institutions or as a family

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Degree programme (B.A.) in Social Services 2/2

worker. Social worker working in rehabilitation or socialsupport on the other hand supports the elderly, disabled or immigrants. Graduates can become qualified kindergarten teachers by completing 60 credits of studies in early childhood education and social pedagogy.

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courses in the Degree programme in Social Services that exchange students will be able to complete in english in Laurea Hyvinkää campus as from academic year 2014–2015. It´s possible that there can come some changes in them but only that kind which will not change them totally.

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Child welfare (10 ects, online course)

• Having completed the study unit the student is able to

understand the principles and stipulations of Children's Rights Agreement and Finnish Child Welfare Act.

know Finnish child welfare services system and practices.

know latest statistics involving child welfare.o It is also possible to do topics above concerning

student´s own country. support children and families in different

circumstances. evaluate the interest of the child. use various child welfare methods.

o Early intervention, preventive and rehabilitation methods.

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Multicultural social work (10 ects)

• Having completed the study unit the student is able to

recognize how individual´s own cultural background effects to her/his values.

analyze cultural assimilation process and how it effects to the development of national and cultural identity.

analyze cultural structures and processes that cause inequality and marginalization.

find ways to function in a multicultural working environment.

use various kinds of methods and techniques of community work.

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More information about Laurea Hyvinkää

If you are interested of studying in or cooperating with Laurea Hyvinkää unit you find more information of us by visiting our websites http://www.laurea.fi/en/hyvinkaa/Pages/default.aspxand by contacting us. Our contact information are

Director Seija Paasovaara, tel. +358 (0)9 8868 7708Development Managers Päivi Marjanen, tel. +358 (0)9 8868 7917 and Arja-Helena Meronen, tel. +358 (0)9 8868 7694Student Affairs Officers Sirpa Antila, tel.+358 (0)9 8868 7701, Ritva Rauhalinna, tel. +358 (0)9 8868 7704, Tuovi Reijonen, tel +358 (0)9 8868 7731, Nina Vilander (Assistant, P2P), tel. +358 (0)9 8868 7727 Building Superintendent Jari Korhonen, tel. +358 (0)9 8868 7709

E-mail addresses are in form: firstname.familyname@laurea.fi

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More information about studying in Laurea

If you are interested of studying in Laurea you find more information by visiting our Studies-websites http://www.laurea.fi/en/studies/Pages/default.aspxand by contacting especially following of our international contact persons

Director Arja Majakulma: Support for student and staff internationalisation (including international mobility, internationalisation at home, studies in English, guidance for foreign students), tel. +358 (0)9 8868 7215

Planning Officer Anna Dunder: Student/teacher exchange and placements – Bachelor/Master of Health Care, Beauty Care, Social Services, tel. +358 (0)9 8868 7092

E-mail addresses are in form: firstname.familyname@laurea.fi

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