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Tuesday May 14, 2024

4-day strike begins at private schools, daycares

Private schools and daycare centre remain closed across the country as the employees started a four-day strike on Monday demanding negotiations on the union members’ terms and conditions of employment in the private teaching sector. New collective agreement has not been reached yet, and this means that the planned

Published: 04:20 am,Tuesday 7 May 2024

Helsinki University students start demo protesting Israeli attacks on Gaza

Students of the University of Helsinki on Monday started a pro-Palestine demonstration at the campus protesting against the Israeli attacks on Gaza. The students under the banner of “Students for Palestine” also demanded that the University of Helsinki should cut relations with Israeli universities. Terming the Israeli attacks on the

Published: 02:16 am,Sunday 5 May 2024

More people taking intermediate level YKI test in Finnish

The intermediate level tests for the National Certificates of Language Proficiency (YKI) in Finnish have been booked up increasingly fast in the past few years, said the Finnish National Agency for Education in a press release on Friday. The reasons behind this include a growing interest in completing the

Published: 22:00 pm,Friday 3 May 2024

Finland no longer highly educated compared to EU, OECD countries

There has been a decline in achieved learning outcomes in Finland in proportion to the general level in the OECD countries since 2009, and continuing between 2018 and 2022, according to Bildung Review published by the Ministry of Education and Culture on Friday. The review compiled statistical and other

Published: 02:48 am,Monday 29 April 2024

E-library opens in Finland

Finland will launch national E-library on Monday eliciting international interest, according to the National Library of Finland. Operating under the auspices of the National Library, the E library was developed in cooperation with public libraries to meet their needs. Offering e books and audiobooks as well as digital journals,

Published: 21:19 pm,Sunday 28 April 2024

Finnish high school teachers found bias against immigrants

Finnish high school teachers discriminate against immigrant students in the assessment of matriculation examinations, according to a recent study by the Helsinki Graduate School of Economics. The study entitled “The extent and consequences of teacher biases against immigrants” jointly conducted by Ellen Sahlström of Aalto University and Mikko Silliman,

Published: 04:46 am,Thursday 25 April 2024

Helsinki University enrols 1527 students to Int’l master’s courses

A total of 1 527 new students were admitted to the international master’s programmes at the University of Helsinki commencing in autumn 2024, said the university in a press release on Wednesday. A record number of more than 10,626 students applied to the 35 international master’s programmes commencing in

Published: 14:27 pm,Tuesday 23 April 2024

2-day strike begins at private schools, daycares

Private schools and daycare centre remain closed across the country as the employees started a two-day strike on Tuesday demanding negotiations on the union members’ terms and conditions of employment in the private teaching sector. The unions decided to go for the strike as the National Conciliator’s conciliation proposal

Published: 02:51 am,Saturday 6 April 2024

Students asked to repay overpaid Kela benefit in April to avoid fine

The national social insurance institution-Kela asked the students to voluntarily repay the overpaid student financial aid for 2023 by the end of April to avoid fine, said Kela in a press release on Friday. If a student does not repay the overpaid financial aid by this timel, Kela will

Published: 03:01 am,Wednesday 3 April 2024

Helsinki University calls applications for 236 doctoral positions

The University of Helsinki invited applications for 236 three-year doctoral positions in 11  sectoral pilots or consortia. funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture, said the university in a press release on Tuesday. The application period for the doctoral education pilot has already begun and will conclude on

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