HEI Blog

Montessori and Finland's Education differences: History
As an operator or a parent, choosing the type of early childhood education appropriate for your school and children can be challenging. There are a variety of well-established alternative preschool models, such as ...
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EF chooses HEI Schools as their teacher training partner
EF, the international education company, selected HEI Schools, a Finnish early education company, as their trusted teacher training partner for an early education pilot program in China.
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Including All Kids: How HEI Schools Incorporates Diversity
Inclusion and special needs are becoming increasingly important in the educational field, especially during the last two years when many schools were required to shut down or implement remote teaching due to the ...
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HEI Schools and SEGi University and Colleges to begin a collaboration
HEI Schools, a Finnish early education company, and SEGi University and Colleges in Malaysia have signed an agreement to cooperate in developing SEGi’s Early Childhood Education Teacher Diploma program in Malaysia. With ...
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HEI Schools to collaborate with the City and University of Helsinki
HEI Schools is starting a collaboration with the City of Helsinki and the University of Helsinki in a kindergarten in Jätkäsaari, a neighborhood in Helsinki. The goal of the collaboration is to further develop the ...
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HEI Schools receives €2 Million investment
We are very happy to announce that HEI Schools has received €2 million investment from Practica Capital and Tesi in its latest funding round. The money will be used to continue building and strengthening the growing ...
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Partner Talks - HEI Schools Australia
At HEI Schools, we receive many questions about what it’s like to start and run a Learning Center with us. To address those topics, we started a new series called “Partner Talks” in which we sit down with our current ...
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HEI Schools to open HEI Schools Club on Nami Island, Republic of Korea
From left: Mr. Fred Minn, CEO, and Ms. Ellen Chang, Chief International Liaison of Nami Island Arts and Education Inc., Ms. Inkeri Mentzoni, Director of Sales, and Mr. Heikki Vartia, Sales and Partnership Manager of HEI ...
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How to Implement the HEI Schools Toolkit in Your School
The Finnish approach to early childhood education is well-known for a reason! Its progressive pedagogy places the child’s needs and interests at the center with a focus on holistic growth and transversal competencies ...
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Partner Talks: HEI Schools San Rafael
At HEI Schools, we receive many questions about what it’s like to start and run a Learning Center with us. To address those topics, we started a new series called “Partner Talks” in which we sit down with our current ...
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6 Reasons Why Finnish Early Childhood Education is Excellent
For the past ten years, Finland’s education system has been praised as one of the best in the world. The most recent PISA scores in 2018, showed that Finnish students aged 15 years old were one of the top five in ...
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4 Ways We Localize the HEI Schools Learning Center Concept
One of the most common questions we receive is how we localize the HEI Schools Learning Center concept. Though based on the Finnish curriculum and model of early childhood education and care, we have developed methods ...
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Partner talks - HEI Schools Senayan
At HEI Schools, we receive many questions about what it’s like to start and run a Learning Center with us. To address those topics, we started a new series called “Partner Talks” in which we sit down with our current ...
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HEI Schools and Kide Science join forces to globalize early education
PRESS RELEASE March 15th 2019 HEI Schools, a Finnish early childhood education (ECE) company delivering the acclaimed Finnish model to early education ECE operators worldwide has just teamed up with Kide Science to ...
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HEI Schools Opens in Australia in Autumn 2018
HEI Schools has signed a franchising agreement with University Preparation College in Australia about establishing and operating kindergartens in Australia. The first pilot kindergarten is planned to open already in ...
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Prototyping, testing and building HEI Schools Learning Space!
We are proceeding with full speed with our learning space concept. Design work has reached prototyping and testing phase before drawings are flown to China to be build to our new brilliant HEI Schools Baotou ...
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Helsinki University Makes an Additional Investment in HEI Schools
In February 2017, the Helsinki University Funds made an additional investment in the HEI Schools. The Helsinki Innovation Services (HIS), which focuses on the commercialization of scientific research, is strongly ...
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