Current issues

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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SISU is coming, are you ready?

The winds of change will blow again in August, as the university community will be moving to a new, joint information system! Sisu is an information system for teaching, studies and administration that will be launched for the whole university…

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New year, new me?

A new decade, a new year, a new spring term. The hustle and bustle of summer job search starts as early as the 1st of January and everyone is busy polishing their applications. The thesis seminars take my peers closer…

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