Nothing - the current system works well
Student financial aid should be more loan oriented
The income limits of students should be raised
The income limits of students should be removed
Parents' income limits should be removed for secondary school students over 18 years old
Parents' income limits should be removed for students of secondary schools
Study grants should be raised
Student financial aid should be included in the basic income model
The rent ceiling of housing supplements should be raised
Regional inequality should be diminished
Student financial aid for secondary and higher education should be set to the same level
Student financial aid should be expanded to cover the summer months, as well
A care giver increase should be added to student financial aid
Student financial aid system is not needed
Student financial aid consists of student grants, housing supplements and government guarantees for student loans. The eligibility criteria for student financial aid includes acceptance to an educational institution, full-time studies, progress in studies, and need for financial support.
Yes
No
The current system works well
There should be more emphasis on the entrance examinations
There should be less emphasis on the entrance examinations
The content of entrance examinations should be changed from what it is now
Upper secondary school and vocational education should be combined into one form of education
Upper secondary schools and vocational schools should cooperate more
Upper secondary schools and vocational schools should cooperate less
The current situation is good
Education can be chargeable at all levels
Class trips and study trips (basic and secondary level)
Study trips (higher education)
Trips to school
Materials at comprehensive schools
Materials at secondary level
Materials at higher education
Secondary level education
Matriculation examination (examination fees)
Competence-based qualification (examination fees)
Education leading to a higher level degree for all
Education leading to a higher level degree for students who come from outside EU and EEA countries
All for a second higher level degree
None of the above mentioned, education must be fully free of charge
A national hearing system should be established for young people
Municipalities must have a stronger obligation to hear young people
Through the existing channels
Young people do not need special hearing systems
It is enacted in the law that at the municipal level young people must be heard in matters concerning them.
School education
Youth councils
Organisations
Online hearing systems
Student and student union activity
Free form civic activity
There is no need to increase the participation of young people through special actions
According to studies, on a global scale, Finnish young people have a high understanding of social issues, but their participation is clearly lower than average.
Yes, in municipal elections
Yes, in parliamentary elections
Yes, in presidential elections
Yes, in European Parliamentary elections
Yes, in advisory referendum at municipal level
Yes, in advisory referendum at national level
No, not in any elections
The voting age limit is currently 18 years in all elections.
There is nothing to improve
The quality of on-the-job training places
Students should be paid for on-the-job training
The significance of the content of the on-the-job training to studying
Inclusion of on-the-job training in the degree
Communication between the instructors and the educational institutions
Everyone should have an opportunity to participate in on-the-job training
An on-the-job training opportunity should be offered at upper secondary schools, as well
Students should be encouraged to do the on-the-job training period abroad
Move to a smaller accommodation
Cut down private motoring
Eat more vegetarian food
Prefer local food and services produced locally
Cut down the use of air traffic
Invest in renewable energy sources
Use energy sparingly
Use more ecological products
Recycle
None of the above
A Member of Parliament doesn't need to do anything special for sustainable development
Integration should be increased
Finland should not resign from the EU, but the right of countries to make independent decisions should be increased
Finland must resign from the EU
Finland should increase work-related immigration
Finland should decrease work-related immigration
Finland should keep work-related immigration at the current level
Finland should increase the refugee quota
Finland should decrease the refugee quota
The refugee quota should be kept as is
Finland should grant more asylums
Finland should decrease the number of asylums granted
The number of asylums should be kept as is
The word immigrant is a general concept used to describe all people moving to Finland, aiming to stay here permanently. For example, returnees, migrants, and in certain situations also refugees, are considered immigrants. A refugee is a person who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of his or her nationality.
Old member countries of the EU are committed to give 0.7 percent of their gross domestic product as development assistance by the year 2015. In Finland, the share of development assistance of gross domestic product is 0.55 percent currently.
Gender neutral Marital Act traditionally means an act which guarantees equal rights for those in an official relationship, irrespective of the gender of the parties. At the moment, Finnish legislation contains two acts defining an official relationship: a marital act for those of different sex, and a registered partnership act for those of the same gender.
No special measures are needed to promote the well-being of young people
Obtaining a study place
Supporting young people financially
Preventing the alienation of young people
Decreasing unemployment of young people
Prevention and treatment of mental health problems of young people
Listening to young people more and providing opportunities for them to be included and have influence
Supporting wellbeing for school and studies, as well as the study ability of young people
Supporting recreation activities of young people
Increasing healthcare services
Young people can organise leisure time activities themselves
Young people do not need special support for activities
By offering activity vouchers
By offering meaningful leisure activity opportunities
By improving the operational preconditions of organisations
By supporting club activities at schools
By bringing the recreation facilities and equipment up to date
School healthcare
Healthcare services in vocational schools
Healthcare services in upper secondary schools
Healthcare for polytechnic students
Healthcare services for university students (FSHS)
Occupational healthcare services for youth
Municipal healthcare services for youth
None
School healthcare means healthcare in comprehensive schools. Vocational schools, upper secondary schools and polytechnics are within student healthcare. FSHS, or Finnish Student Health Service, provides healthcare services for university students.
FSHS, or Finnish Student Health Service, is a foundation which provides healthcare services for university students for an annual fee.
Prevention works well as is
The stress of school work and studying is not taken into account sufficiently
Low threshold services are not offered sufficiently
Lack of meaningful leisure activities
Lack of social networks
Too little detached youth work
Young people must learn to face the realities of life
Young people do not know where to get help from
Young people do not have the strength to search for help when they are ill
The mental problems of young people are identified too late
It takes too long to receive treatment
Young people are too ashamed to use mental health services
Mental health services offered do not meet the demand/needs
Yes, it should be 12 years
Yes, it should be 15 years
Yes, it should be 18 years
Cooperation between different levels of education
Increasing the number of student counsellors
Increasing the amount of individual counselling
Increasing the knowledge of students
Developing student counselling so it is more oriented towards working life
Increasing working life counselling for young people outside educational systems
No additional resourcing is needed for planning the future of young people
Enabling obtaining work experience during the studies
Improving the quality of working life, well-being at work, and working environment atmosphere
Increasing the flexibility of working life, and development of part-time systems
Increasing retirement age
Increasing further education, adult education, and re-education
Better matching of military and non-military service with the schedules of educational institutions
Decreasing gap years
Enabling application to educational institutes twice a year
Shortening study times
Time in working life does not need to be lengthened
Time in working life does not need to be lengthened, but the necessary funds must be obtained in other ways
None of these options
Youth unemployment is solved with the current activities
Support activities, for example, the Sanssi card
Economic growth
Student counselling
Improving the contacts of educational institutes with working life
Entrepreneurial education
Increasing the flexibility of working life, and part-time systems
Better correspondence between the content of educational programmes and needs of working life
Development of labour market subsidised forms of working
Encouragement of students to seek work experience in their domain while studying
Better quality education
Youth unemployment usually means unemployment of people under 20 or 24. The interpretation of youth unemployment can be difficult, because young people are more mobile in the labour market than older people.
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