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• Employers' intention to hire highly educated foreign workforce in the Kokkola region : implications for higher education 

  Niemi, Birgitta (University of Jyväskylä, 2015)

  The rational for this research is to find out the intentions of employers to hire highly educated foreign workforce in the Kokkola region. The research analyses how employers have prepared themselves for meeting the ...

• Transforming Finnish Higher Education : Institutional Mergers and Conflicting Academic Identities 

  Ursin, Jani (Universidad de Murcia, 2017)

  As in many other European countries also Finnish higher education system has witnessed several reforms over the past decade many of which originate in efforts to make more competitive and affordable higher education system. ...

• Equal Access to the Top? : Measuring Selection into Finnish Academia 

  Helin, Jouni; Koerselman, Kristian; Nokkala, Terhi; Tohmo, Timo; Viinikainen, Jutta (Cogitatio Press, 2019)

  In this article, we draw a parallel between equality of opportunity in educational transitions and equality of opportunity in academic careers. In both cases, many methodological problems can be ameliorated by the use of ...

• The career potential of migrant scholars in Finnish higher education : emerging perspectives and dynamics 

  Hoffman, David M. (University of Jyväskylä, 2007)

  David Hoffman tutki väitöstyössään suomalaisessa korkeakoulujärjestelmässä työskentelevien akateemisten siirtolaisten näkökulmia ja kokemuksia. Tutkimus toi esiin tärkeitä haasteita liittyen suomalaisen väestön nopeaan ...

• Emotionally loaded identity and agency in Finnish academic work 

  Ursin, Jani; Vähäsantanen, Katja; McAlpine, Lynn; Hökkä, Päivi (Taylor & Francis, 2020)

  This narrative study investigated identity, agency and emotions, amongst an under-researched academic group – those without PhDs with primary responsibility for teaching, who are also expected to do research. In this ...