Your health condition or a circumstance related to your ability to function should not be an obstacle to being selected as a student. However, in so-called SORA degrees, your health condition or limitations in your ability to function may be an obstacle to getting into education.
SORA regulated degrees at Omnia
The SORA legislation sets out certain conditions that you must meet in order to be selected for training under the legislation. The goal of the SORA regulations is to improve the safety of education and working life, and they also guide Omnia's operations.
Degrees subject to SORA legislation at Omnia
- Further Vocational Qualification in Education and Guidance (in Finnish)
- Further vocational qualification in Disability Services (in Finnish)
- Specialist Vocational Qualification in Rehabilitation, Support and Guidance Services (in Finnish)
- Further Vocational Qualification in Mental Health and Intoxicant Abuse Welfare Work (in Finnish)
- Vocational qualifications in Social and Health Care
- Vocational Qualification in Safety and Security (in Finnish)
- Specialist vocational qualification in Care for the Elderly, Memory nurse (in Finnish).
See all degrees subject to SORA legislation (oph.fi) (in Finnish).
Limitations of the health condition and functional capacity of the SORA degrees offered by Omnia
Your health condition or a circumstance related to your ability to function must not be an obstacle to being accepted as a student. However, you cannot be accepted as a student if you are not capable of performing practical tasks related to education in an educational institution, workplace or other learning environment due to your health or functional capacity.
Regarding your state of health or your ability to function, the limitations caused by possible diseases and the individual treatment situation of the diseases should be evaluated.
Restrictions on student selection
An obstacle to student selection can be one of the following:
- Current untreated psychosis or severe depression that reduces the ability to function or another illness that limits mental health and ability to function, which prevents working in practical tasks related to education.
- Musculoskeletal disease, injury or other illness limiting physical health and functional capacity, which prevents working in practical tasks related to education.
- A skin disease that limits the ability to function, such as chronic eczema, which prevents working in practical tasks related to education.
- A bloodborne disease that may limit performance in practical tasks related to education. Other illness or disability that endangers the health or safety of the student, the client or others participating in or working in the practical tasks.
- Such a weakness of vision or hearing that cannot be corrected with assistive devices.
- Problem use of substances or substance addiction.
You can check the degree-specific health requirements (opintopolku.fi) (In Finnish).
SORA regulations and suitability assessment
Omnia as a training provider has a responsibility to promote the safety at work during the training, but also afterwards. In this work, Omnia’s operations are guided by the national SORA regulations.
The SORA regulations promote:
- the safety of the students themselves and of the school and work community
- patient and client safety
- transport safety
- the safety of minors.
The health or functional capacity of the applicant must not be an obstacle to admission. However, in the qualifications referred to in the SORA regulations, the applicant must meet the conditions set out in the regulations regarding health and functional capacity and previous cancellations of the right to study.
When assessing unsuitability, Omnia wants to ensure that its operating models are accessible, equal and fair, responsible, preventive and collaborative. The regulations and operating models apply to both upper secondary vocational education and training and vocational adult education and training.
The regulations concerning the cancellation and restitution of the right to study do not apply in apprenticeship training, as an apprenticeship is a fixed-term employment contract, established by agreement between the student, the employer and the organiser of the training.
At Omnia, data concerning health status may only be processed by persons who make decisions on admission and prepare for the withdrawal and restoration of the right to study.