Education and training

Vocational education

Students from Joroinen apply to nearby vocational institutions. The vocational education places closest to Joroinen are in Juva, Pieksämäki and Varkaus.

• Savo Vocational College, Varkaus
• South Savo Vocational College, Mikkeli — units in Pieksämäki and Juva

The popularity of vocational education has grown in recent years. The Joroinen comprehensive school has particularly encouraged studies in the metal industry and has cooperated with local companies.

Apprenticeship training

Through apprenticeship training it is possible to complete a vocational upper secondary qualification, a further vocational qualification or a specialist vocational qualification. The student finds a suitable workplace and, together with the employer, contacts the apprenticeship office. An apprenticeship can be started at any time.

Apprenticeship offices operate, among others, in connection with the education providers mentioned above.

Kipin kapin kellumaan! project

The Kipin kapin kellumaan! project started in Joroinen in January 2026. The aim of the project is to strengthen swimming instruction in basic education and to improve pupils’ swimming skills and water safety skills. A swimming skills coordinator has been hired for the project to draw up plans, good operating models and practices for strengthening swimming instruction and for swimming skills in accordance with the national core curriculum.

In 2022, the Finnish Swimming Teaching and Lifesaving Federation, in cooperation with the University of Jyväskylä and the Finnish National Agency for Education, carried out a survey on the swimming skills of sixth-graders and children of pre-primary age. Based on the results, schools had difficulties in making up the gap in pupils’ swimming skills that had formed during the coronavirus restrictions. Of the sixth-graders, 55 per cent were able to swim — the figure had fallen by a fifth since 2016.

The Ministry of Education and Culture granted a total of €3.5 million nationally for strengthening swimming instruction — the municipality of Joroinen was granted €25,000 in support. The project is carried out together with the municipality of Joroinen during the project period from January 2026 until July 2027 (19 months).