Occupation description: Guidance counselling in basic education, or in general upper secondary school or in vocational education.
A key task of guidance counselling is to support students’ growth and development in a way that advances their study abilities social maturity and develops the knowledge and skills that are required for life planning.
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When applying for a decision from the Finnish National Agency for Education
When submitting your application, enclose copies of the following documents:
Provide a translation of each document into Finnish, Swedish or English if the original document is in a language other than Finnish, Swedish, Danish, English, Estonian, Icelandic, French, German, Norwegian or Spanish. The translator must be an authorised translator in Finland or an official translator in the source country, working in the language pair in question. Translations done by the body that has issued the original document are also accepted.
If you have a professional qualification in guidance counselling from abroad and want to qualify to work as a guidance counsellor in Finland, apply for a decision on eligibility from the Finnish National Agency for Education.
The decision-making process can be influenced by whether you have completed a degree in an EU or EEA country, or whether you are a national of an EU or EEA country or another country. The Finnish National Agency for Education will decide if your past education makes you eligible. There are also language requirements to work as a guidance counsellor.
You can contact the Finnish National Agency for Education for more information on decision-making criteria.
The Finnish National Board of Education is obliged to make the decisions on the recognition of professional qualifications within four months of receipt of all documents. For other decisions, the law does not specify a maximum processing time. The processing of an application takes on average 2-3 months counting from the date on which all the necessary documents were provided.
Finnish National Agency for Education decides on the eligibility that a foreign qualification gives for positions in the early childhood education and care, teaching, and positions for which a Master of Laws degree completed in Finland is required.