Saturday 5 February 2011

Well being also for students

I might have mentioned before that Finland is a country where a lot of attention is paid to well-being. People are encouraged to make sports, employing organisations have special programmes to make sure that people are feeling good at work etc.

Well-being policies are not only targeted to population that finished education. Also students are well taken care of. As soon as student leaves home he receives housing support. He can work but only up to certain level of earnings, otherwise he needs to return support money. This is maybe a bit discouraging for students to work. On the other hand though this rule was introduced to encourage students to focus on studying - some work is allowed but not too much. Students should be studying, not working crazy hours.

There is one more good example of how students are taken care of. As a student I live in a students accommodation. Recently there were some works done to install devices to monitor temperature and air composition in students' apartments. This work was made to improve living conditions for us - students. Now we have no excuses left not to get to books. Now we are all being well.

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