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Higher Education in the BRICS: Key Lessons and the Road Ahead

2015

The assumptions, by the volume editors and most contributors, at the beginning of this research adventure were that, despite the ongoing policy discourse surrounding the rise of the BRICS, were characterized by fundamental differences as regards the dynamics within the higher education sector and the links with societal actors on the one hand and macro level trends (such as demography and rising urbanization) on the other. The rich empirical accounts provided in this volume—around the four main themes surveyed—suggest that our assumptions were largely correct. Considerable differences do exist amongst the BRICS.

Higher Education in a Knowledge Society: How to Close the Knowledge Divide

2015

In this chapter, Higher Education in a Knowledge Society: how to close the knowledge divide, Richard Ennals and Hans Christian Garmann Johnsen discuss education policy in UK and Norway, and how national conditions might influence the role that universities take in social development. The new communicative reality: mobilisation and education breaking the institutional barriers. They can be met by initiatives like Quality Circles, or a Penny University. The underlying big problem is to what extent universities are really taking a role in reducing the serious knowledge and education level divide we see in western societies.

Doctoral Graduates in Higher Education Research: Training and Careers in France

2005

Evaluation of Guidance Services in Higher Education in Finland

2003

The Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council (FINHEEC) implemented an evaluation of guidance services in higher education in 2000–2001. Altogether 25 higher education institutions participated in the evaluation. This article describes the evaluation process, findings and recommendations. The aim is to show how an evaluation process can serve the development of guidance policies and practices at the institutional and national levels. Additionally, the article demonstrates the use of evaluation methodology as a means of enhancing communication between staff and students.

On Comparative Research In Higher Education

2008

Higher Education in a Sustainable Society: Addressing Knowledge Disparities and Enabling Debate

2015

Sustainability is a comprehensive concept. It addresses the complex relation between and effect of social and economic development. It is a concept that challenges us to see things in relation to each other and in a larger perspective. The sustainability challenge however, comes at a time when sciences and research has expanded but at the same time is more fragmented than ever. In this chapter we introduce Mutual Competence Building a concept for guiding the sustainability engagement of Higher Education.

Higher education graduates' employment and the uncertainty of working life.

2012

The aim of this chapter is to examine how the uncertainty and instability of working life is reflected in Finnish polytechnic graduates’ employment. The present study investigates the fields of business and engineering by comparing two graduate cohorts. The societal context in which new graduates enter working life is that of an increasing precariousness in the labour market, which affects higher education graduates as well as the general population. Nowadays, a higher education qualification is not necessarily a guaranteed path to a high income and high social status as it used to be. Insecurity and uncertainty in society and working life can be considered as general features of late moder…

Siirtymät ammatillisesta koulutuksesta korkeakoulutukseen Suomessa ja muissa Pohjoismaissa

2018

Mahdollisuudet siirtyä ammatillisesta koulutuksesta jatko-opintoihin korkea-asteelle erottelevat Pohjoismaisia koulutusjärjestelmiä. Artikkelissa vertaillaan neljän Pohjoismaan, Suomen, Ruotsin, Norjan ja Tanskan nuorten ammatillisen koulutuksen väyliä tästä näkökulmasta: miten ne mahdollistavat siirtymät korkea-asteelle. Artikkeli liittää aluksi kysymyksen jatko-opintoihin siirtymisen mahdollisuuksista laajempaan kansainväliseen keskusteluun elinikäisestä oppimisesta, minkä jälkeen luonnehditaan lyhyesti pohjoismaisten korkeakoulujärjestelmien eroja. Sen jälkeen tarkastellaan ammatillisen koulutuksen järjestelmiin eri Pohjoismaissa tehtyjä reformeja ja niiden vaikutuk…

Changing patterns of transition to VET and from VET to higher education : the on-going Finnish VET reform

2018

Since the 1990s participation in the Finnish vocational education and training (VET) increased by 10%, i.e. it became more attractive choice for young and altogether 42% of them chose it as their post-compulsory education by the fist decade of millennium. Thus Finnish VET seemed to be a success story in contrast to many other European countries. At present the Finnish VET is going through extensive multi-level reform efforts. The reform aims not only to change national qualification requirements, but also legislation, administration and regulation. The reformed model of VET should be implemented in 2018. At the same time the funding for VET education providers has been at stake due to reces…

The Challenge of Mutual Competence Building

2015

Mutual Competence Building has emerged as a key concept when working on this book with our colleagues at the University of Agder. In this conclusion we develop and explore the concept further in relation to sustainability. Our point of departure is the definition we presented in the introduction: mutual competence building is a conversation between scholars and societal and work life partner organisations about what sustainability, and efforts to create a sustainable society, might entail for distinct sectors.