Departments have usually assigned one or more teachers, who provide guidance relating to studies.
The writing of theses is also supervised by a known teacher. At several universities, students have
also been assigned a so-called teacher tutor. In the early stages of studies, the student quite often
belongs to a tutor group, with a senior student of the main subject acting as a "tutor". In addition,
faculties or universities have a student affairs office and larger universities also have a general
information service. For the guidance of disabled students, universities have named either a
counselling officer or some other person.
In addition, there are often counselling officers for foreign
students. At larger universities, faculties may have their own counsellors for foreign students.
Over the past few years, the responsibility of universities for job placements for graduates has been
emphasised and this has become one of the performance indicators for universities. Universities have
established counselling and guidance services in order to promote working life relations and job
placements.
According to the decree, practical training may always be included on degrees. According to the
universities’ curricula, this is either compulsory or voluntary, depending on the field. Universities also
offer special Master’s programmes, which are based on a Bachelor’s degree, (Finnish: kandidaatin
tutkinto, Swedish: kandidatexamen) or other suitable degree; they are usually multidisciplinary and
designed to serve new working life needs. In addition, continuing education centres offer special
continuing education programmes in order to meet these new demands and to alleviate
unemployment.
In recent years, polytechnics have developed their own student counselling system. The importance of
the system has grown because of the increased opportunities for individual options. Student
organisations have also developed student tutoring activities.
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