Basic education, services

Children living permanently in Finland are required to attend school. Compulsory education begins at the beginning of the school year in the year...

TUVA education aims to attain such learning skills with which the student performs education leading to an upper secondary education degree.

Montessori teaching is a teaching method where functional teaching material facilitates the learner’s individualised and unhurried progress.

Children permanently residing in Finland must attend compulsory education. In home schooling, the guardian assumes the overall responsibility for...

The Finnish model for leisure activities offers 3rd–9th graders a variety of free hobbies in and around schools in Helsinki.

All children and young people under the compulsory school age living in Espoo have the right to participate in basic education organised by the city.

Due to the student’s intellectual disability or autism, their teaching will be held in city-level special support groups.

The aim of the Schools on the Move programme is to promote a culture of physical activity in basic education and support the expertise and...

School transportation is primarily arranged by public modes of transport, in which case the student receives a free-of-charge schoolchild's travel...

Either religion or ethics are taught in basic education. A student can also receive teaching in their own religion in primary and lower secondary...