“I decided to be a tutor because my own tutors were so amazing! When I started my studies I didn’t know anyone from my degree programme or my way around the city. But with their help everything went fine and felt so easy. I wanted to do my part and help the students next year.”’
The tutor application period
During Autumn 2026 we will apply for new, awesome METKA tutors for Spring 2027!
From tutoring you’ll learn working-life skills and meet new people. If you’re a nice person, who want’s to help new students in the beginning of their studies, apply now!
You can also apply for 5 credits for completing the study module of tutoring.
For applicants who have applied in previous application period:
All tutors (new, continuing, peer, degree, exchange and tokako/top up) apply with the same application form. You can read more about the various tutoring roles METKA offers from this site.
After applying our head tutors will interview all applicants and after that they will be in contact with you about the selections.
We provide the new head tutors training sessions. The dates to the training sessions are following:
Peer training 1: 14.4. tuesday at 17-20
Peer training 2: 21.4. tuesday at 17-20
International training 1: 16.4. tuesday at 17-20
International training 2: 23.4. tuesday at 17-20
Mega Saturday for all new tutors: 25.4. saturday at 8.30-17
All trainings take place at Myllypuro campus, peer training sessions are located in MPA1010 as well as Mega Saturday. The international training sessions are located in MPD1002.
Exchange tutoring
Exchange tutoring includes more individual guidance when compared to peer tutoring. As an exchange tutor, you get to help the exchange student get started in a completely new environment and it’s a good opportunity to gain experience from guidance. On top of this, exchange tutoring is a great warm-up for your own possible exchange period!
If you want, it’s possible to apply for more than one roles of tutoring at once, for example to tutor both freshers and a few exchange students. If you apply for both, you must participate in peer tutor training and the first evening of exchange tutor training. The dates of the training sessions are announced on the application form.
Interested? You may ask for more information from your own tutors and their head tutors, especially degree- and exchange head tutors. You can always contact us as well from tutor@metkaweb.fi.
Peer tutoring
Peer tutoring is in Finnish for the Finnish degree students.
All applicants will be invited to interviews, and information about selections will be sent as soon as possible to all applicants. The dates for all of the training sessions will be announced in the application form.
In addition to METKA’s website, the easiest way to find out more about tutoring is through your own tutors and head tutors. These competent tutors can answer, among other things, to everything. We here at METKA are glad to provide answers as well. The best way to reach us is through our email, tutor@metkaweb.fi.
Degree tutoring
Degree tutors tutor new degree students in English. Students may be from Finland or other countries.
You may ask for more information from your own tutors and their head tutors. You can always contact us by tutor@metkaweb.fi.
TOKAKO tutoring
Top up students do part of their studies in Finland. TOKAKO students study all of their studies in Finland. Students also learn Finnish during their studies. These students arrive at different times so part of the tutoring is done remotely, part as a hybrid and part at campus. Top up and TOKAKO tutoring is a quite a new form of tutoring which we are still developing. There are TOKAKO groups in many study fields: nursing (TOKASA tutoring), physiotherapy, bioanalytics, business.
We have Head Tutors in TOKASA (nursing) in Myllypuro international Head Tutor team from whom you can ask about TOKASA tutoring. Also, you may ask for more information from tutor@metkaweb.fi.
Tutor training
Participating in all of the training sessions is mandatory for all new tutors. More detailed information is provided through email for the selected applicants. You will also find the exact training dates on the application form.
The language of the tutors in training will determine if the training is held either in Finnish or in English.
Peer tutor trainings
The training sessions are formed from three sessions by METKA and, a campus day organized by head tutors. The training consists of lectures, workshops, campus specific training, as well as group and performing exercises. Tutors will be trained in two groups (peer and international) but they will have a joined training day on Mega Saturday training day. These trainings are in Finnish.
Exchange tutor trainings
The trainings are formed from three sessions organized by METKA and, a campus day organized by head tutors. The training consists of lectures, workshops, campus specific training, as well as group and performing exercises. The international tutors will also have a joined training day Mega Saturday with the peer tutors. In the international training sessions the language in use will be English. The head tutors will arrange the campus day. The specific training dates will be announced on the application form.
Head tutoring
Our head tutors are experienced and additionally trained former tutors, who coordinate the practical aspect of tutoring in their teams’ fields. Head tutors are a very important link between METKA’s hundreds of tutors, Metropolia staff and METKA. Head tutoring period lasts an academic year starting from January and ending at the end of December. Application period for new head tutors will be in every Autumn semester in approximately September. Ask more information from your current head tutors, follow this page or contact us by tutor@metkaweb.fi.
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