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Finnish, English, or Finglish?
How can university people foster the national languages in the science community’s daily life, staff rooms and lecture halls? And could the use of native language fight anti-science sentiment?
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Freedom of research or safety?
Geopolitical tensions creep their way into the work at higher education institutions as well. Freedom of research should not be restricted in the name of safety – it is especially important to protect right now.
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Professor of the Year 2026 Jani Erola: Promises and limits of education
Professor of the Year 2026 Jani Erola is also one of the fifteen recently appointed Research Council of Finland Academy Professors. His new project studies the connections between increased level of education, job market changes, and new technology in social inequality.
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The shop steward safeguards the rights of union members
Employment in academia can be like a jungle. The field is known for its repeated fixed-term contracts and juggling different tasks. Shop stewards help guide university employees through this jungle.
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Difficult subjects in teaching – what is a teacher allowed to say?
University atmosphere determines what a teacher is able to say when teaching and what is kept quiet. According to several researchers, these subjects have changed in the last decades.
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The Academic of the Year Timo R. Stewart: Researchers’ role in public in need of discussion
Intentional misunderstandings, hate speech, silencing attempts. Academic of the Year, researcher and non-fiction writer Timo R. Stewart has had to witness these over the course of his career. In his opinion, a researcher conducting science with public funds plays an important role in social discourse.
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A researcher must not be left alone in a harassment situation
Harassment and coercion threaten the work of researchers and other experts. To ensure their freedom of expression, coordinated cooperation from the research community is required, both domestically and internationally.
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Fragile freedom
The Trump administration is cutting research funding and compiling lists of banned words. But Europe is not free of threats against science either.
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Raising the higher education rate is Finland’s trump card for the future
Minister Mari-Leena Talvitie’s goal is to open the doors of higher education institutions to at least every second young person. By increasing RDI funding, she wants to secure a strong capability to innovate for Finland in the future. At the same time, she is aware of the difficulties of increasing the education level and research funding.
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Certainty about the future would convince to stay
Finland wants more academic experts from abroad, but many of those who move here depart after a few years. What could be done differently?
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Why is there a desire for a new higher education and research vision?
Eight years ago, the Ministry of Education and Culture published their vision extending to 2030. Initiated by Minister of Science and Culture Mari-Leena Talvitie, the vision’s reworking process looks towards 2040.
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Pasi Lyytikäinen, composer and doctor: provoking boundaries and turning the wordless into words
Composer Pasi Lyytikäinen’s career combines lonely and communal work, shyness and the drive to perform, the rhythm of language, and nonverbal expression.
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Our voices must be heard!
The Tampere University gave a face to 35,000 Finnish university employees. The message of the strike day was unanimous: Our voices must be heard. We must be taken seriously.
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Researchers under a loupe
The work of researchers is constantly evaluated in each phase of their career path. Amongst the science community, efforts are being made to develop responsible researcher evaluation. On what criteria should researchers be evaluated?
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The rapid start to the doctoral pilot
The doctoral education pilot is showing progress – articles have already been published and employment connections made. The three-year goal demands new practices from universities and limits what can be achieved.
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