Starting the studies

Welcome to Perho!

You have cho­sen an in­ter­na­tional field where there will al­ways be work avail­able. Töölö Cam­pus of Perho Culi­nary, Tourism & Busi­ness Col­lege has ed­u­cated pro­fes­sion­als al­ready since 1935. There are ap­prox­i­mately 1500 stu­dents in Perho Col­lege all to­gether. In Töölö Cam­pus, there is ap­prox­i­mately 530 stu­dents and 60 staff mem­bers.

The stud­ies con­sist of vo­ca­tional up­per sec­ondary qual­i­fi­ca­tion in the restau­rant and cater­ing ser­vices (180 cr) in one of the fol­low­ing study pro­gramme spe­cial­iza­tions:

• Cus­tomer ser­vices in Finnish (waiter, wait­ress)
• Cook­ery in Finnish (cook)
• Cook­ery pro­gramme (cook) and adult up­per sec­ondary school qual­i­fi­ca­tions in Finnish
• Restau­rant cook study pro­gramme in Eng­lish

Fur­ther in­for­ma­tion about other study op­por­tu­ni­ties at Perho Culi­nary, Tourism & Busi­ness Col­lege: http://perho.fi/en/vo­ca­tional-ed­u­ca­tion/

Useful information at the beginning of studies

Dur­ing the first days school days, stu­dents will be­come fa­mil­iar with the fol­low­ing :

• Flexim-key (ac­cess to school build­ings in Töölö Cam­pus and the use of copy ma­chines)
• Din­ing at stu­dent cafe­te­ria – Herkku
• Stu­dent fa­cil­i­ties and stu­dent lock­ers (each stu­dent has to pur­chase their own Abloy-key lock)
• Ser­vices of Me­dia Cen­ter and Stu­dent Af­fairs Of­fice
• KELA – cer­tifi­cate of stu­dent sta­tus
• Stu­dent card ap­pli­ca­tion  (https://sakkiry.fi/opiske­li­jako­rtti/)
• Cer­tifi­cate of sal­mo­nella test 
• Perho li­brary card (Me­dia Cen­ter) 
• User­names and pass­words for:
  • Wilma
  • iPerho eCam­pus
  • Of­fice365 on-line ser­vices
• Pur­chases of work uni­forms – guided by your group su­per­vi­sor. 
• Use of name tag

At the be­gin­ning of stud­ies, stu­dents will meet their ca­reer counselor who will be their main con­tact per­son.  Stu­dents will also meet prin­ci­pal, di­rec­tor, ed­u­ca­tion man­ager,  school nurse, school so­cial worker and psy­chol­o­gist.

Communications

Wilma is the main of­fi­cial com­mu­ni­ca­tion chan­nel at Perho: https://wilma.perho.fi/

In Wilma, stu­dent will find his / her sched­ules and study pe­ri­ods, teach­ers, ab­sences, per­sonal com­pe­tence de­vel­op­ment plan (PCDP), mes­sages, grades and com­ple­tion of stud­ies and op­tional mod­ules. Dif­fer­ent types of au­tho­riza­tions are also marked in Wilma (use of pho­tog­ra­phy and names) and in­ter­views.

Do not for­get to keep your own con­tact in­for­ma­tion up­dated. You have to up­date the changes in ad­dress, tele­phone num­ber and e-mail ad­dress im­me­di­ately to Wilma.

It is highly rec­om­mended to down­load a Wilma-ap­pli­ca­tion for your mo­bile de­vice. The app pro­vides you with real-time no­ti­fi­ca­tions about new mes­sages and an­nounce­ments, and lets you read and send Wilma mes­sages on your own phone.

Study cur­ricu­lum and in­for­ma­tion about train­ing or­ga­nized in the work­place is lo­cated in iPerho eCam­pus.

Moving around at Töölö campus

Stu­dents have ac­cess to school build­ings and restau­rant dur­ing the open­ing hours. Flexim-key is re­quired for en­try to school build­ings (is­sued dur­ing the first day of school). De­posit of Flexim-key is in­cluded in ma­te­rial cost. Make sure to take care of your per­sonal Flexim-key and in­form im­me­di­ately if your Flexim-key is lost or stolen. Flexim-keys are col­lected at the end of stud­ies be­fore grad­u­a­tion and the de­posit of 12 eu­ros will be re­funded.

Media Center: Students Affairs Office and Library

Stu­dents will find fol­low­ing ser­vices and in­for­ma­tion at Me­dia Cen­ter:

Stu­dent Af­fairs Of­fice

• stu­dents so­cial ben­e­fits and travel dis­counts
• ap­pli­ca­tions for stu­dent card (OSKU ry (http://osku.info/) tai SAKKI ry (https://sakkiry.fi/).

School Li­brary

• copy and print­ing ser­vices (re­quires a Flexim-key; 100 pages is in­cluded in paid ma­te­rial cost)
• three com­put­ers for com­mon use
• mag­a­zines and news­pa­pers
• books (re­new­able loan pe­riod is one week; late fee penalty)

IT information

For the du­ra­tion of stud­ies, stu­dents will re­ceive a per­sonal user­name and pass­word that are re­quired for an ac­cess to school com­put­ers and on-line ser­vices such as eCam­pus, Wilma and Of­fice 365.

All the eS­er­vices of Perho Col­lege can be found in Lo­gin page of Perho web­site: https://perho.fi/en/lo­gin/

Perho’s It-help desk is lo­cated on the 5th floor of Perho build­ing (near class room 508).

• (User­names and pass­word, IT-as­sis­tance) Miko Ijäs, 040 1697 070, miko.ijas@perho.fi
• (Of­fice365, OneDrive and iPerho eCam­pus guid­ance & as­sis­tance) Jarmo Åke, 040 147 8552, jarmo.ake@perho.fi

Lockers

Flexim-keys and lock­ers are is­sued to all stu­dents by Ser­vice Ad­vi­sor Erkki Ke­sk­i­nen. Ser­vice Ad­vi­sor also pro­vides guid­ance and as­sis­tance to the use of Flexim-keys and to school lock­ers.

• Erkki Ke­sk­i­nen
• 040 1478526 
• erkki.ke­sk­i­nen@perho.fi

Teaching hours, lessons and lunch break

The lessons are 60 min­utes long, in­clud­ing one break. In case of dou­ble and triple lessons the break times are fixed by the teacher. In vo­ca­tional learn­ing the breaks are given when they do not in­ter­fere with the work per­for­mance.

The lunch break is 30 min­utes. The lessons be­gin on the hour be­fore lunch and quar­ter past af­ter lunch. Af­ter 1:00 pm the lessons start al­ways quar­ter past.

Student Cafeteria – Herkku

Morn­ing por­ridge is of­fered for free of charge start­ing at 7:30.  In ad­di­tion to this, stu­dents can also pur­chase a full break­fast for 3€.

The stu­dents re­ceive one free meal on school days. If stu­dents have kitchen lessons, meals are pre­pared and eaten in a kitchen dur­ing the kitchen lessons, not at Herkku.

Restaurant Perho

Restau­rant Perho is the place where stu­dents will com­plete their first train­ing pe­riod.  Stu­dents re­ceive 20% dis­count of a la carte meals and week­end lun­cheons.  The dis­count is ap­plied for a stu­dent and his / her spouse or sig­nif­i­cant other and par­ents. Fur­ther in­for­ma­tion: https://www.rav­in­to­laperho.fi/

Transport connections

The school is sit­u­ated in the crowded city cen­tre, which means that there are no park­ing spa­ces for stu­dents in the school area. Bi­cy­cle stand is lo­cated at the front yard of the school. The clos­est park­ing spa­ces are on the nearby Hi­etaniemenkatu street. The fastest and cheap­est way to get around in the Hel­sinki met­ro­pol­i­tan area is to use the pub­lic trans­port sys­tem.

• Buses: 14, 18, 24, 41, 42, 45, 70T
• Trams: 2, ja 8 (stops in front of Perho)
• Metro: Kamppi and Ruo­ho­lahti
• Timeta­bles: https://www.hsl.fi/en