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: Students who have accepted the offered study place and paid the tuition fee by the deadline stated on the acceptance letter will be enrolled as attending for the next semesters. 

Students continuing their studies: After the first year, you pay the tuition fee separately for each semester. The tuition fee for the next semester must be paid in advance. You will receive an email a couple of months before the deadline. 

Note! If you lose your study entitlement for some reason and it is later regranted, your obligation to pay tuition fees will be reviewed again. Students who are required to pay tuition fees, will receive instructions from Study Services via 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.

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.