The profession of vocational education is in continuous transformation as we begin to understand what is required to equip teaching staff with skills fit for the 21st Century. The skill set and role of VET teachers is being outpaced by developments of working life across industry. Employers need “work ready” students that are equipped with technical […]

Salpaus Further Education is putting even more emphasis on students’ personal competence development plans (PCDP), making sure that they fulfil all the requirements. Students’ PCDP are in a key role in the Finnish vocational education system. Finland was the first Nordic country to introduce a comprehensive national approach to validation through its competence-based system for […]

The Salpaus Education Center provides training in the Finnish language and culture. The goal of the language training  is to learn everyday vocabulary and sentences. The course is twice a week with some homework and distance learning tasks. Read about Maranda’s experiences of the Finnish language and culture studies: Who are you and where do […]

Salpaus will hold the Skills semi-finals this year in cooking, bookkeeping as well as plate and welding. The most successful competitors in the semi-finals will advance to the finals of Skills Finland, which will be held in Jyväskylä in May. Students who are interested in studying at Salpaus are welcome to follow the semi-finals: 29.1. […]

Salpaus further education will host a 3 day international workshop on the theme of “Future models of staff training in VET” from March 10th to the 12th. The workshop will include our project partners form Finland, Holland, Northern Ireland and Scotland. We hope to exchange good practice and define teacher skill needs for the next […]

I was participating in an Erasmus exchange student program of one month duration this Spring (2019). The following entry is a response to a query about the travel. The destination country in question was Scotland. We integrated into a class of students’ daily study routine in Clyde College, Glasgow. To tell you the truth, when […]

On April 26, 2019, Salpaus Further Education, Lahti, signed a cooperation agreement with Tung Hai High School, Taipei, Taiwan. The memorandum will reinforce the ongoing international exchange of students and experts between the two schools. It will also allow for greater collaboration in joint study programmes and development projects. We also hope that this will […]

April was a big month for Salpaus, with international visitors from all over the world. We hosted guests in many departments including Culinary, Electronics, Business management, Car Maintenance, Plumbing and Travel and Tourism. As mentioned, the guests came from a wide geographical area including Taiwan, Spain, Croatia, Scotland and the Dominican Republic. During the same […]

On the 19th of March the director of a cultural center for children and adolescents in Bethlehem (Abed, Abdelfattah Abusrour, PhD) visited our institute. The goal of this visit was to discuss possibilities for future cooperation and to see in which fields of education we have the strongest connections and overlap with their institute. During […]

3 members of Clyde College staff visited Salpaus from the 8th of January to the 10th January. This 3-day visit was designed to reinforce the cooperation that has been developing between our two education institutes over the last year. During the visit David Marshall, (Assistant Principal Student Experience) Marie Anderson, (CEIAG Project Leader) and Louise Reilly, (Senior Student […]