Riddle me my job

”Roll your shoulders and turn your heads from side to side… then let’s go!” In a few seconds a couple of dozen association chairpersons, both old and new, have moved from a circle to imitating animals from different memes crawling…

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On Highway 9

Highway 9, which tirelessly carries peoples and goods between the towns of Tampere and Turku, was drawn on the map in the final years of the Swinging and Spacetraveling Sixties. Apart from Finland’s largest sled, the Kylmäkoski prison complex and…

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Internationalisation, please!

This week has marked the International Week both in the student union and at the university. But what does internationality actually mean in the context of universities? Students and researchers from abroad, teaching and courses in English, opportunities for international…

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Students are more than feedback-givers

In the summer, I followed the public discussion about branding students as freeloaders and thought that it is apparently appropriate to belittle students’ experiences. Fortunately, soon after the discussion took off in the media, research which highlighted the world in…

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