Continuous learning belongs to everyone

Last week the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published a country report on continuous learning in working life in Finland. Among other things the report draws attention to one of the most fundamental problems in our education system:…

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Towards a European University

These are curious times for the European Union. The UK left the EU ranks just a few days ago and so did a great deal of whiskey and sheep, according to the news. The EU losses are hardly limited to…

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The level of education does not rise on its own

Greetings from the Kick-off Seminar of the National Union of University Students in Finland! Laura Rissanen wrote in Aamulehti on 11 January on the topic of raising the universities’ objectives for degrees. The increase in the number of students has…

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Specialist? Who, me?

Just yesterday I was training about 20 people on how they can provide student counselling in their subject associations. At this point I have to wonder what gives me the expertise to go around stating these “truths”. Who am I…

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