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• Gendered Labor Market (dis)advantages in Nordic Welfare States : Introduction to the Theme of the Special Issue 

  Mustosmäki, Armi; Reisel, Liza; Sihto, Tiina; Teigen, Mari (VIA University College, 2021)

  Gender equality has been named as one of the normative foundations of Nordic wel- fare states. This is reflected in how, year after year, Nordic states rank among the most gender egalitarian countries in the world (see, ...

• The expansion of English-medium instruction in the Nordic countries : Can top-down university language policies encourage bottom-up disciplinary literacy goals? 

  Airey, John; Lauridsen, Karen M.; Räsänen, Anne; Salö, Linus; Schwach, Vera (Springer Netherlands, 2017)

  Recently, in the wake of the Bologna Declaration and similar international initiatives, there has been a rapid increase in the number of university courses and programmes taught through the medium of English. Surveys have ...

• Transnationalisation and Nordic higher education : Tensions and possibilities in educational policy 

  Haapakorpi, Arja; Saarinen, Taina (Universitetsforlaget AS, 2014)

  The recent developments in Nordic higher education policy are closely linked with global tendencies, which are in turn reacted to at national and local levels. The financial crisis, massification of higher education, and ...

• Multilayered perspectives on language policy in higher education : Finland, Estonia, and Latvia in comparison 

  Soler-Carbonell, Josep; Saarinen, Taina; Kibbermann, Kerttu (Routledge, 2017)

  This article analyses language policies in higher education (HE) in Finland, Estonia, and Latvia, as well as the European Union (EU). We take a multilayered approach to language policies in order to illuminate the intertwined ...

• English in Finland : a case study of globalization's impact on higher education 

  Hipke, Sandra (2015)

  This paper looks at how the process of globalization, via the Bologna Process has changed higher education in Finland. It examines how legislation was changed, altering the structure of the degree programs, which led to ...