Starting of studies

 

Planning and starting your studies


Choice of profession and career planning

A-URA is an online service (in Finnish) with lots of information about job and educational opportunities and career planning. You can take tests that chart your skills, competencies and strengths. http://www.avosto.net/a-ura/

AVO is an online service (in Finnish) that helps you choose your future profession. The service is intended especially for young people and students, and contains basic information on nearly 300 professions including educational opportunities. You can take tests to chart what you value in a job and what you are interested in.
http://www.mol.fi/avo/

The Ministry of Education and Culture's online service Opintoluotsi is one-stop site to education information in Finland.  This includes information and examples about career choices and alternatives. http://www.opintoluotsi.fi/

Helsingin Sanomat’s online service Oikotie (in Finnish) has a career centre with tests that help you reflect upon your goals and professions of interest to you. The service also has a skills analysis test. http://www.oikotie.fi/jobs_default?exit=career_center

Course offering


Courses organised by the Open University of Applied Sciences:
www.haaga-helia.fi > Education and application > Open University of Applied Sciences> Special offering

Courses organised by the degree programmes:
Timetables > Campus > Excel timetables

Planning your studies


We recommend that you prepare a study plan for yourself when you embark on your studies. The plan contains study objectives and sub-objectives and how they will be achieved. An important part of the plan is preparing your calendar. It is important to prepare a realistic study plan because this ensures that your time is well organised between studies, work, family and free time.

Study Plan


To support you in the preparation of your study plan you should know:

  • What are studies at an Open University like?                            
  • What do online studies require from you?
  • What are credits?
  • HAAGA-HELIA’sfields of education
  • Moodle learning environnment
  • WinhaWille student interface for enrolment to courses
  • E-mail
  • IT services and user instructions
  • Library and information services
  • Timetables
  • General exam dates and enrolment
  • HAAGA-HELIA campuses
  • Teaching locations
  • Student Affairs Offices

Personal stydy plan

You should prepare a study plan for yourself at an early stage of your studies.  The plan helps you clarify your goals and specify a timetable for your studies.  Take into account your job, family, free time and sufficient rest. It is good to review your plan every six months or so and make changes as necessary.

1.    Goals
What are my motives and expectations with regard to my studies? What knowledge and skills do I need to develop?  Big goals can be segmented into sub-goals so that it will be easier to monitor their achievement.

2.    Achieving goals
How will I ensure that I have sufficient time for my studies? How are my finances?  What way of studying suits me best?


3.    Preparing a timetable
What will I study in the autumn/spring semester? During this period? It is good to set deadlines for the achievement of sub-objectives and to reserve sufficient time for acquiring course textbooks, reading, reviewing, assignments, lectures and exams. Reserve time also for rest and hobbies.

Course name /  Dates of classes  /  Exam, submission of assignments   / Course completed


4.    Challenges faced during studies:  What challenges might I face during my studies and from where can I get help?

5.    Learning and assessment:
What wishes do I have with regard to student advising? What are my strengths and where do I need to improve? How will I assess my progress? How will I reward myself for achieving objectives? If I do not achieve my objectives, do I need help in improving my study skills or did I take on too much work? What did I gain from my studies?


How to enroll?

You can enrol as an Open University of Applied Sciences student as follows:

  1. Provide our Student Affairs Office with your personal information by means of an online form.
  2. Pay the tuition fee and provide our Student Affairs Office with a receipt. Always sign up for several courses because if one is cancelled you can still study in others. If you are signing up only for courses organised by the degree programmes, you should always check with the Student Affairs Office that you can take the course before you pay the tuition fee. Please, contact open university academic asvisor for the selection of the courses, especially when starting your studies in the middle of a semester.
  3. The tuition fee is non-refundable.
  4. New students must always personally visit the Student Affairs Office to verify their identity and get user IDs for our systems. If you have studied at the Open University before, your user IDs will be reactivated once you have delivered your tuition receipt to the Student Affairs Office.
    If a course is cancelled, everyone who has signed up will be notified of this by e-mail. You can sign up for courses organised by the degree programmes only after the sign-up period for degree programme students has ended, i.e. you can sign up only in the so-called post-selection round. If you have been allocated a reserve spot for a course, go to the first class because the teacher will select new participants in place of those who have cancelled. With regard to online courses, the teacher may inform students that they have been accepted for the course by e-mail and provides instructions on how to access to the learning environment. In case you do not receive such a message, please open Moodle to see if the course material is available for you.
     

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