Enrolment for Attendance or Non-Attendance

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

NB Students who are required to pay tuition fees do not enrol themselves in Peppi. Study Services will register them as present students for the next semester after they have paid their tuition fees. 

Students who do their work placement or study exchange abroad or are only finalising their thesis or graduating must also enrol for attendance.

Students 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 the student is 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 the study entitlement due to failure to register as attending or non-attending may apply to the degree director to have the study entitlement regranted. According to legislation (1440/2014), a 50 euro handling fee will be applicable. The application will not be processed if the application fee has not been paid.

Legal grounds for the absence

If you have legal grounds for your absence, please contact Study Services to change your absence code so that you do not spend your absence semesters. 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. Otherwise, you have the right to enrol for non-attendance for two semesters in total. 

The absence code cannot be changed retrospectively after the end of the semester and the document justifying your absence must be submitted by the end of the current semester. The presence code can only be changed to an absence code at pre-announced times. 

Documents that prove the legal grounds for your absence:

1. service under the Conscription Act (1438/2007), Non-Military Service Act (1446/2007), or Act on Women's Voluntary Military Service (194/1995): Call-up order
2. you require a leave of absence from your studies due to birth or adoption of a child: Kela's certificate regarding maternity, paternity, or parental/partial parental allowance period or, if the certificate has not yet been received, a medical certificate regarding the pregnancy. You can prove your paternity leave with Kela's certificate of paternity leave or, if you do not yet have a certificate, a medical certificate of your spouse's pregnancy.
   Corresponding certificates from the authorities of other countries regarding statutory parental leave are also acceptable.

The document that proves the legal grounds for your absence needs to be delivered to Study Services.

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.