Institute of Adult Education in Helsinki (in brief)

Welcome to study today the knowledge and skills of tomorrow

The business idea

The institute of Adult Education in Helsinki is a goal-directed study society, where adults can advance their lifelong, continuous learning and internal growth

The facts about the Institute

• The largest privately owned adult education centre in Finland
• Owned by Finnish employee organizations
• The state gives financial support and oversees its activities
• Founded in 1961

The Institute in Numbers

• 35.000 lessons (á 45 minutes)
• 9.000 students
• 1.200 study groups
• 15 full-time workers
• over 200 part-time teachers
• 35 classrooms on the institute’s premises
• Turnover of 2,6 million €

The Areas of Education

• General interest courses
• Open university
• Courses for immigrants
• In-service personnel training

Kinds of Subjects

• Open university
• Man and society
• The skills of life and human relations
• Communications skills
• Foreign languages
• Finnish for foreigners
• Computer technology and office work
• Visual arts, music, other arts
• Handicrafts
• Sailing
• Physical education and dance
• Health and beauty
• Speciliaties of the house

Areas of Responsibility

• Management
• Open university
• Man and society
• Languages
• Arts, practical subjects
• Computer technology
• Courses for the unemployed and immigrants

Open University

• Qualifications leading towards university degrees regardless of earlier education
• Contact teaching; combined local and distance teaching
• Collaboration with Finnish universities; the universities give the certificates
• Law, psychology, health/medical sciences, social sciences
• Lessons in c. 10 different subjects a year

Courses for Immigrants

• For immigrants (more lessons than in any other adult education centre in Finland)
• In cooperation with Finnish employment officials
• Finnish language, Finnish society and working life, computer technology, handicrafts

In-service Personnel Training

• Training for enterprises, trade unions and other organization
• Custom tailored according to the needs of the buyer
• At workplaces or in the classrooms of the Institute
• Mostly foreign languages, computer technology, human relations and communication skills

The Personnel

15 full-time workers:

• Director
• 2 teachers of the languages
• 3 teachers of the Finnish for Foreigners
• Teacher of the visual arts
• 2 teachers of social sciences
• Financial secretary
• 3 office employees
• IT specialist
• Officer in charge of the premises and equipment
• over 200 part-time teachers
• Other part-time workers

The Finances

Luncheon Cafeteria Helmi

On the Institute’s premises Luncheon Cafeteria Helmi, tel. 050 597 4769

How to contact the Institute

Address:	Töölöntullinkatu 8, 00250 Helsinki
Location:	Look at the map!
Telephone:	Office: (09) 41 500 300
	Office in charge of the premises and equipment: (09) 41 500 330
	Fax: (09) 41 500 333
E-mail:	toimistohelsinginaikuisopisto.fi
E-mail/ personnel:	lastnamehelsinginaikuisopisto.fi
Internet:	www.helsinginaikuisopisto.fi

The Adult Education Centres in Finland

• In all cities and communes (226 institutes; 800,000 students; 2,100,000 lessons)
• The most traditional sector in Finnish adult education
• General education, non-formal, leisure and self-development studies
• Mainly owned by cities and other communes
• Teaching mainly in the evenings, many courses also in the daytime and at the weekends
• The most popular subjects: the arts, languages, handicrafts and various other practical subjects, physical education