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Technical Education in Jeopardy? Assessing the Interdisciplinary Faculty Structure in a University Merger
Vellamo, Tea; Pekkola, Elias; Siekkinen, Taru (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)The social responsibility of universities is to contribute to solving the ‘wicked problems’ facing humanity, including climate change, poverty, conflicts and the lack of energy resources. Interdisciplinarity is an approach ... -
University-wide, top-down curriculum reform at a Finnish university : Perceptions of the academic staff
Honkimäki, Sanna; Jääskelä, Päivikki; Kratochvil, Joachim; Tynjälä, Päivi (Routledge, 2022)This study examines academic staff’s perceptions of a university-wide, top-down curriculum reform in terms of the management of the reform, the support provided by the university’s administration, and the utilisation of ... -
Technical Identity in a MergerProcess : Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Vellamo, Tea; Pekkola, Elias; Siekkinen, Taru; Cai, Yuzhuo (Springer, 2020)University mergers are sites of self-reflection where the identities of the institutions in question are juxtaposed and challenged. We examine the organisational identity of a Finnish single-faculty technical university ... -
Principals’ views on changes in the provision of support for learning and schooling in Finland after educational reform
Pulkkinen, Jonna; Räikkönen, Eija; Pirttimaa, Raija; Jahnukainen, Markku (Springer, 2019)Recently, the large-scale reforms of special education have been carried out in many countries. This study focuses on the latest Finnish reform of special education in compulsory education. As principals lead educational ... -
University rankings in Nordic higher education : a scoping review
Ramezani, Seyedeh Golafrooz; Ursin, Jani (Routledge, 2024)In response to global competition in higher education, university rankings have been developed. These have been interpreted as indicating the regions and countries with the most prestigious and competitive higher education ...