Annual report 2022: Learning and guidance
Lead paragraph
Haaga-Helia appeals to applicants: in the autumn 2022 joint application period, it was the most popular university of applied sciences in Finland. Compared to the previous autumn’s joint application period, the number of applicants quadrupled. The total number of applications was 38,000, of which individual applicants accounted for 16,321.
The number of applicants indicates that Haaga-Helia’s programmes are found interesting in Finland and abroad. In particular, programmes provided in the form of multimodal and online studies were popular. Among the English-language programmes, Business Information Technology was ranked number one: it received more than 7,000 applications from around the world.
In 2022, 2,460 alumni graduated from Haaga-Helia. The graduation figures in the Bachelor of Business Administration degree programme in Business Information Technology and in the Master’s programmes exceeded our goals. In the Bachelor of Business Administration (tradenomi) programme, the set goal was exceeded in the number of students who graduated in the targeted timeframe. The number of graduates in the School of Vocational Teacher Education also exceeded the expectations.
The year of learning and guidance was also characterised by the progress of the education reform. Haaga-Helia’s remaining renewed Bachelor’s programmes also began in the new structure in the autumn of 2022. The reform of our Bachelor’s programmes in 2021 introduced new degree programmes, a curriculum shared by all degrees and personalised study paths in Haaga-Helia. Now the education reform is focusing on the further development of expert competence and on online alternatives for courses.
In 2022, we published Haaga-Helia’s pedagogical vision, which is founded on dynamic competence. In accordance with our vision, students are at the heart of Haaga-Helia’s pedagogy. Haaga-Helia’s pedagogy connects learning with work life in a communal manner. The new education dimensioning model, negotiated in the spring of 2022, also applies to Haaga-Helia’s faculty. A new aspect in the model was the implementation of development hours. This will make development an even more visible part of the teachers’ job.
Highlights of 2022
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We offered Ukrainian refugees Haaga-Helia’s Open University of Applied Sciences English-language and workplace-oriented studies free of charge. We implemented online training for the use of Ukrainian vocational teachers in the international EU4Skills Better Skills for Modern Ukraine joint project.
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We organised the largest higher education pedagogy seminar, the Pedaforum (higher education pedagogy days), in the autumn of 2022. The HEIPEDA group, focusing on higher education institution pedagogy, continued its activities to develop Haaga-Helia’s pedagogy.
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Our international operations in learning and guidance continued. The Ministry of Education in Greece accredited Haaga-Helia’s top-up degree (complementing a foreign vocation qualification into a university of applied sciences degree) with the Le Monde Institute on Hospitality and Tourism studies.
