{"id":364,"date":"2022-04-29T11:06:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T08:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helao.fi\/peruskoulu\/?page_id=364"},"modified":"2026-10-29T14:13:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T12:13:28","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/helao.fi\/peruskoulu\/en\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Helsingin aikuisopiston peruskoulu<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Helsingin aikuisopiston peruskoulu is one of the largest schools in Finland that provide basic education for adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 40 people work at our school every year. The school has a management team of four people. The principal is Jyrki Sipil\u00e4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"text-lift-wrapper\"  id=\"block_3a79dac490170f115fd567d0a58750bb\" >\n  <div class=\"text-lift bg--pastel-blue\">\n    <div class=\"text-lift__texts\">\n      \n              <div class=\"text-lift__content\">\n          <p>Basic education for adults (Basic Education Act, section 46) is for adults who did not finish basic education or never went to school. It gives them the basic knowledge and skills they need in life and in their studies. After basic education for adults, students can continue to upper secondary education, which means vocational education or general upper secondary school (lukio). They can also go to working life.<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n      \n          <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Curriculum<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We teach according to the national core curriculum for basic education for adults by the Finnish National Agency for Education. We also have our own curriculum, which is based on the national one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Basic education for adults is free of charge for students. We may charge a small fee for single subject courses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"custom-buttons-wrapper\"  id=\"block_6635e024d73d6a0fe0f887148b0c1617\" >\n  <div class=\"custom-buttons\">\n\n    <div class=\"custom-buttons__texts\">\n      \n          <\/div>\n\n          <div class=\"custom-buttons__buttons custom-buttons__buttons--row \">\n                            <a href=\"https:\/\/eperusteet.opintopolku.fi\/#\/fi\/opetussuunnitelma\/25496419\/perusopetus\/tiedot\"  class=\"button button--external\">Our curriculum in ePerusteet (in Finnish)<\/a>\n              <\/div>\n    \n\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"text-lift-wrapper\"  id=\"block_8d1702047ba9a8be28c67faf627d6b9a\" >\n  <div class=\"text-lift bg--pastel-pink\">\n    <div class=\"text-lift__texts\">\n              <h2 class=\"text-lift__heading\">BASIC EDUCATION IN NUMBERS 2023<\/h2>\n      \n              <div class=\"text-lift__content\">\n          <ul>\n<li>370 students<\/li>\n<li>11,829 completed courses<\/li>\n<li>20,823 hours of teaching and guidance<\/li>\n<li>about \u20ac4 million in government funding<\/li>\n<li>44 employees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n      \n          <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our students<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 370 students who have moved to Finland study at our school every year. Their average age is about 35. Our students&#8217; first languages include Arabic, Dari, Farsi, Kurdish dialects and Somali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Commitments<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our whole organisation, including our school, has declared itself a Discrimination-Free Zone as part of the Ministry of Justice campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our organisation has signed Diversity Charter Finland. It is the diversity commitment of FIBS, a national corporate responsibility network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"text-lift-wrapper\"  id=\"block_0af5cf790f423475baf43ed592ea9179\" >\n  <div class=\"text-lift bg--mintgreen\">\n    <div class=\"text-lift__texts\">\n              <h2 class=\"text-lift__heading\">Mission and values<\/h2>\n      \n              <div class=\"text-lift__content\">\n          <p>We are a learning community that is open to everyone. Here everyone can develop their learning, personal growth and goals. We follow these values:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Customer focus<\/strong> means that we take our customers&#8217; needs into account and put the learner at the centre.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cooperation<\/strong> means respecting people, open dialogue with our partners and working together.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pluralism<\/strong> means noticing, experiencing and analysing different world views, ways of acting and realities, and understanding diversity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Internationalism<\/strong> means looking at the global and multicultural world from the basis of our own national cultural heritage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Goal orientation<\/strong> means working towards learning goals with both traditional and new, creative methods.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Equality and non-discrimination<\/strong> means that we treat everyone as equals, regardless of age, gender, nationality, ethnic or political background, language, world view, religion, health or sexual orientation.<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n      \n          <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our school is maintained by Toimihenkil\u00f6j\u00e4rjest\u00f6jen Opintoliitto TJO ry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aktiivi-Instituutti and Helsingin aikuisopisto are part of the same organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helsingin aikuisopiston peruskoulu Helsingin aikuisopiston peruskoulu is one of the largest schools in Finland that provide basic education for adults. About 40 people work at our school every year. The school has a management team of four people. The principal is Jyrki Sipil\u00e4. Curriculum We teach according to the national core curriculum for basic education [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-364","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>About us - Peruskoulu<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/helao.fi\/peruskoulu\/en\/about-us\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fi_FI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"About us - Peruskoulu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Helsingin aikuisopiston peruskoulu Helsingin aikuisopiston peruskoulu is one of the largest schools in Finland that provide basic education for adults. About 40 people work at our school every year. The school has a management team of four people. The principal is Jyrki Sipil\u00e4. Curriculum We teach according to the national core curriculum for basic education [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/helao.fi\/peruskoulu\/en\/about-us\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Peruskoulu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-10-29T12:13:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minuuttia\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/helao.fi\\\/peruskoulu\\\/en\\\/about-us\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/helao.fi\\\/peruskoulu\\\/en\\\/about-us\\\/\",\"name\":\"About us - Peruskoulu\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/helao.fi\\\/peruskoulu\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2022-04-29T08:06:47+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-10-29T12:13:28+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/helao.fi\\\/peruskoulu\\\/en\\\/about-us\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"fi\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/helao.fi\\\/peruskoulu\\\/en\\\/about-us\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/helao.fi\\\/peruskoulu\\\/en\\\/about-us\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/helao.fi\\\/peruskoulu\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"About us\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/helao.fi\\\/peruskoulu\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/helao.fi\\\/peruskoulu\\\/\",\"name\":\"Peruskoulu\",\"description\":\"Helsingin aikuisopiston peruskoulu\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/helao.fi\\\/peruskoulu\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"fi\"},{\"@type\":\"EducationalOrganization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/helao.fi\\\/peruskoulu\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Peruskoulu\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/helao.fi\\\/peruskoulu\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"About us - Peruskoulu","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/helao.fi\/peruskoulu\/en\/about-us\/","og_locale":"fi_FI","og_type":"article","og_title":"About us - Peruskoulu","og_description":"Helsingin aikuisopiston peruskoulu Helsingin aikuisopiston peruskoulu is one of the largest schools in Finland that provide basic education for adults. About 40 people work at our school every year. The school has a management team of four people. The principal is Jyrki Sipil\u00e4. Curriculum We teach according to the national core curriculum for basic education [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/helao.fi\/peruskoulu\/en\/about-us\/","og_site_name":"Peruskoulu","article_modified_time":"2026-10-29T12:13:28+00:00","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"2 minuuttia"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/helao.fi\/peruskoulu\/en\/about-us\/","url":"https:\/\/helao.fi\/peruskoulu\/en\/about-us\/","name":"About us - Peruskoulu","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/helao.fi\/peruskoulu\/#website"},"datePublished":"2022-04-29T08:06:47+00:00","dateModified":"2026-10-29T12:13:28+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/helao.fi\/peruskoulu\/en\/about-us\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"fi","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/helao.fi\/peruskoulu\/en\/about-us\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/helao.fi\/peruskoulu\/en\/about-us\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/helao.fi\/peruskoulu\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"About us"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/helao.fi\/peruskoulu\/#website","url":"https:\/\/helao.fi\/peruskoulu\/","name":"Peruskoulu","description":"Helsingin aikuisopiston peruskoulu","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/helao.fi\/peruskoulu\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"fi"},{"@type":"EducationalOrganization","@id":"https:\/\/helao.fi\/peruskoulu\/#organization","name":"Peruskoulu","url":"https:\/\/helao.fi\/peruskoulu\/"}]}},"lang":"en","translations":{"en":364,"fi":123},"pll_sync_post":{},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helao.fi\/peruskoulu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helao.fi\/peruskoulu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helao.fi\/peruskoulu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helao.fi\/peruskoulu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helao.fi\/peruskoulu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helao.fi\/peruskoulu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3208,"href":"https:\/\/helao.fi\/peruskoulu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/364\/revisions\/3208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helao.fi\/peruskoulu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}