Enrolment for attendance or non-attendance

Attendance and non-attendance at the School of Vocational Teacher Education >>

Tuition fee paying students

Students starting their studies:
If you accept your study place and pay the tuition fee by the deadline in your acceptance letter, you will be enrolled as attending for your first academic year.

Students continuing their studies:
After your first year, the tuition fee is paid one semester at a time. The tuition fee for the upcoming semester must be paid in advance. Study Services will email you the tuition fee payment instructions a couple of months before the payment deadline. Once the tuition fee has been paid, Study Services will enrol you as either attending or non-attending for the upcoming semester.

Note:
If your study right ends for any reason and is later regranted, your tuition fee obligation will be reviewed again. Students who need to pay tuition fees will receive detailed instructions from Study Services by email.

Enrol as attending also when

• you are doing your work placement
• you are on study exchange abroad
• you are finalising your thesis and graduating

You cannot enrol for attendance/non-attendance for a shorter period than one semester.

Higher education students must pay the healthcare fee to Kela (Social Insurance Institution of Finland). Further information. Please note that Kela will not send you an invoice, so you must pay the fee on your own initiative via Kela's e-service every semester. If you are unable to use the e-service, instructions for the payment can be found on Kela.fi webpage.

If a student neglects to enrol for attendance/non-attendance, the student will lose the right to study. A student who has lost their study entitlement due to failure to register as attending or non-attending may apply for regranting of study entitlement. According to government decree (1440/2014), a 50 euro handling fee will be applicable. The application will not be processed if the application fee has not been paid.

Statutory reason for non-attendance

The attendance can only be changed to non-attendance at pre-announced times. 

Please contact Study Services to ensure you will not use your normal absence semesters if you have a statutory reason for your absence. Absence due to military service or if the student needs time off their studies to take care of a child in regard to the child’s birth or adoption does not affect the student’s study time. 

The document justifying your absence must be submitted to Study Services by the end of the current semester. 

Documents that prove the legal grounds for your absence:

1. Call up order for service under the Conscription Act (1438/2007), Non-Military Service Act (1446/2007), or Act on Women's Voluntary Military Service (194/1995)
2. a decision from Kela about pregnancy or parental/partial parental allowance (in earlier decisions maternity, paternity or parental allowance) or equivalent certificates of statutory parental allowances from officials of other countries

You may register as non-attending for other than statutory reasons for two semesters without consuming the duration of your study right.

According to the Universities of Applied Sciences Act, a student may enrol as absent for the first academic year only due to legal reasons (Act 932/2014):

1. The student is in active Military service according to the Conscription Act (1438/2007), Non-Military Service Act (1446/2007), or Women's Voluntary Military Service Act (194/1995) in Finland
2. The student needs time off their studies to take care of a child in regard to the child’s birth or adoption (14.1.2022/52)
3. An illness or injury, which prevents the student from beginning the studies (affects student's right to be absent later)

More information about first-year absence documents and how to submit them

An absent student

• cannot study at Haaga-Helia. The student can only take re-exams from the last attending semester.
• cannot attend work placement,
• cannot get thesis guidance,
• cannot get any student social benefits.

An absent student will retain the right to Haaga-Helia IT services (domain user name, email, etc.).

Please remember to update your contact information in Peppi. If you have any questions, please contact Study Services.