Immigrants include refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, return migrants and foreigners living in Finland temporarily. Immigrants of comprehensive school age usually attend a comprehensive school in their own place of residence. Municipalities may arange preparatory instruction for comprehensive school in their own place of residence. Municipalities may arrange preparatory instruction for comprehensive school. The aim is to enable students to be bilingual, which is achieved through courses in Finnish as a second language and by teaching the immigrants' own native language and offering courses in the own native language.
Immigrant education varies to some extend between municipalities.
Adult refugees and those who have been granted asylum take part in a special one-year immigrant eduction funded by the labour administration. In some cases, other immigrants besides refugees may take part in this type of education. Other complementary general eduction is also arranged for immigrants. The additional tenth year of comprehensive school or other preparatory groups in the Helsinki area offer preparatory instruction on futher studies for young immigrants. The project aims at improving unemployed immigrants' placement into the Finnish labour market with the help of education.