Reproducing Social Equality across the Generations: The Nordic Model of High Participation Higher Education in Finland

2018 ◽  
pp. 358-385
Author(s):  
Jussi Välimaa ◽  
Reetta Muhonen
Keyword(s):  
Applied Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Universities Of Applied Sciences ◽  
High Participation ◽  
The University

This chapter provides a detailed and extensive assessment of Finland’s high participation system (HPS) of higher education, in a historical perspective and with focus on Finland’s core values of equality and equity. The country case challenges some of the HPS propositions. The Nordic model is built upon a distinctive cultural tradition in which the state administers a social consensus based on solidarity, equality, and trust, and higher education is of high quality and has equal esteem. Since World War II equality of opportunity has been central in national policymaking. The chapter focuses especially on the nature of access to higher education and continuing binary diversity between the university sector and the Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS, the former polytechnics) .While there is continuing social competition for access to elite professional programmes, and cultural capital provides certain families with advantages, the Finnish HPS is less competitive and stratified than other HPS.

scholarly journals Auditing in a Family-Centered Higher Education Institution: The German Experience of Implementation

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 21-25
Author(s):  
Susanne Maier ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Applied Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Family Friendly ◽  
The Family ◽  
University Of Applied Sciences ◽  
The University ◽  
Family Centered

The family-friendly university audit (“audit familiengerechte hochschule”) is studied. The audit is available to German universities in order to support a familyfriendly working environment. Practices of an auditor coordinating several workshops for rectorate, HR department and functionaries, as well as representatives of all university groups are considered. The experience of the auditing at the University of Applied Sciences – Public Administration and Finance, Ludwigsburg is analyzed.

scholarly journals Higher education teachers’ descriptions of their own learning: a large-scale study of Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 1284-1297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aija Töytäri ◽  
Arja Piirainen ◽  
Päivi Tynjälä ◽  
Liisa Vanhanen-Nuutinen ◽  
Kimmo Mäki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Applied Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Large Scale Study ◽  
Universities Of Applied Sciences

Organizing a National Education Movement: 1900–1945

1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Brint ◽  
Jerome Karabel
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Organizational Innovation ◽  
Subsequent Development ◽  
Junior College ◽  
Junior Colleges ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
National Education ◽  
Type Of Institution ◽  
The University

Of all the changes in American higher education in the twentieth century, none has had a greater impact than the rise of the two-year, junior college. Yet this institution, which we now take for granted, was once a radical organizational innovation. Stepping into an educational landscape already populated by hundreds of four-year colleges, the junior college was able to establish itself as a new type of institution—a nonbachelor’s degree-granting college that typically offered both college preparatory and terminal vocational programs. The junior college moved rapidly from a position of marginality to one of prominence; in the twenty years between 1919 and 1939, enrollment at junior colleges rose from 8,102 students to 149,854 (U.S. Office of Education 1944, p. 6). Thus, on the eve of World War II, an institution whose very survival had been in question just three decades earlier had become a key component of America’s system of higher education. The institutionalization and growth of what was a novel organizational form could not have taken place without the support and encouragement of powerful sponsors. Prominent among them were some of the nation’s greatest universities—among them, Chicago, Stanford, Michigan, and Berkeley—which, far from opposing the rise of the junior college as a potential competitor for students and resources, enthusiastically supported its growth. Because this support had a profound effect on the subsequent development of the junior college, we shall examine its philosophical and institutional foundations. In the late nineteenth century, an elite reform movement swept through the leading American universities. Beginning with Henry Tappan at the University of Michigan in the early 1850s and extending after the 1870s to Nicholas Murray Butler at Columbia, David Starr Jordan at Stanford, and William Rainey Harper at Chicago, one leading university president after another began to view the first two years of college as an unnecessary part of university-level instruction.

Englishization ‘under the radar’

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Dannerer ◽  
Martina Gaisch ◽  
Ute Smit
Keyword(s):  
Applied Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Research Universities ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Statistical Information ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Traditional Research ◽  
Universities Of Applied Sciences ◽  
Strong Position ◽  
Policy Texts

Based on statistical information and policy texts, this chapter provides an overview and evaluation of the use and roles of English in traditional research universities and universities of applied sciences in Austria. While internationalization is interpreted and realized in different ways by different institutions, English functions as a central element. A factor supporting the widely unquestioned use of English might be found in the socio-economically strong position that German still enjoys in business, work-life, and higher education in Europe. This predominance is also noticeable in the utilitarian relevance awarded to both German and English in Austrian higher education, thereby failing to recognize the multi-layered relevance multilingualism could have in implementing internationalization policies that would go beyond Englishization practices.

scholarly journals Models of work-based learning, examples and reflections

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Major
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Evolutionary Development ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Content Type ◽  
New Ways Of Working ◽  
Working Practices ◽  
Public Organisations ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify a number of different models of work-based learning (WBL) in operation at the University of Chester and provides two examples of university-employer partnership where WBL is used as the principal means for bringing about change in the workplace. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on the experience of one UK University with significant WBL provision and outlines the evolutionary development of a number of different models of WBL designed to meet the specific needs of employers and individual students. Findings The paper reflects on the distinctive contribution of WBL in higher education to bring about change to the culture and working practices of two public organisations, thereby improving performance and developing new ways of working. Practical implications It will also consider the impact of WBL on learners often giving them a greater sense of their own identity and professionalism and point to the way in which WBL challenges the university as much as it challenges employer partners. Social implications Widening access to higher education and increasing participation in HE. Originality/value The identification and description of a number of different models of WBL in operation in the HE sector.

Bürgermeisterinnen und Bürgermeister in Baden-Württemberg

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vinzenz Huzel
Keyword(s):  
Applied Sciences ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Public Management ◽  
The State ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Universities Of Applied Sciences ◽  
The Media ◽  
The University ◽  
High Degree

Experts from politics, the media and science have stated for years that the number of suitable candidates for the position of mayor in the state of Baden-Württemberg has been declining steadily. This volume examines whether this is really the case and what the reasons for the seemingly dwindling attractiveness of this position are. Based on empirical data, an up-to-date stocktaking survey is conducted among mayors and possible mayoral candidates. The study provides a comprehensive overview of the job, revealing mechanisms of selective recruitment and its conditional factors. Its concentration on the aspects mentioned gives this investigation a high degree of relevance for public and academic discussions beyond the debates on the office of mayor in Baden-Württemberg. Vinzenz Huzel studied political science at the University of Augsburg, public management at the HVF in Ludwigsburg and did his doctorate at the TU in Darmstadt. He works for the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation and is a lecturer at the Universities of Applied Sciences for Administration in Ludwigsburg and Kehl.

scholarly journals Access to Higher Education in Canada

1984 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 79-93
Author(s):  
Neil Guppy
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Socioeconomic Background ◽  
Language Group ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Educational Programmes ◽  
University Level ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The University ◽  
Modest Reduction

This paper examines changes in access to higher education in Canada for individuals born in the first half of this century. The data show variations in attendance at, or graduation from, university or non-university postsecondary educational programmes by gender, language group, and socioeconomic background. The statistical analysis uses information from a large, nationally representative sample of Canadians. Results show a process of democratization at the postsecondary non- university level, but only a modest reduction in disparities at the university level.

scholarly journals Los estudiantes

2012 ◽  
pp. 1-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
François Dubet
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Great Part ◽  
Student Life ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
French Society ◽  
University Life ◽  
And Function ◽  
The University ◽  
Collective Actor ◽  
Multiple Variants

En este texto se busca establecer parámetros para responder  a la pregunta ¿qué son los estudiantes?, en el contexto de la educación superior en Francia, considerando, en principio, la aparición de dos procesos que dominan la vida universitaria de dicho país desde hace 40 años: la masificación del acceso a los estudios superiores y la diversificación de la oferta universitaria. Se revisan las múltiples variantes que arroja el traslape de estos dos fenómenos partiendo de dos premisas: los estudiantes incluyen, a la vez, a gran parte de la juventud, una juventud definida por condiciones de vida que rebasan a la propia universidad, y también son estudiantes propiamente dichos, definidos por condiciones de estudios particulares. El estudiante no se puede reducir ni a su papel ni a su condición, sino que elabora una experiencia que articula una manera de ser joven y una relación con los estudios.A través del análisis del recorrido que representa la vida estudiantil se intenta comprender, también, por qué el mundo estudiantil, pese a estar débilmente organizado, se constituye como actor colectivo durante algunas movilizaciones masivas y movimientos que plantean frecuentemente a la sociedad francesa el problema del lugar y la función de la enseñanza superior.AbstractThis article attempts to establish parameters in order to answer the question: What are students? within the context of higher education in France , considering, firstly, the appearance of two processes ruling university life in that country for the last 40 years: the mass access to higher education and the diversification of the university offer. This works reviews the multiple variants that these two overlapping phenomena yield, starting from two premises: the students include, at the same time, a great part of today's youth, a youth defined by living conditions that surpass the university itself, and they are also students, defined by conditions of particular studies. The student can not be reduced either to his/her role or to his /her condition, but he/she creates an experience that articulates a way of being young and a relationship with studies.Through the analysis of what student life represents, we also attempt to understand why the student world, in spite of being weakly organized, becomes a collective actor during some mass demonstrations and movements that frequently pose to French society the problem of the place and function of higher education.

scholarly journals A DECLARAÇÃO DE BOLONHA E O REFORÇO DA ABERTURA DO ENSINO SUPERIOR A NOVOS PÚBLICOS: perceções de pessoas adultas que frequentam a Universidade de Coimbra

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 169
Author(s):  
Isabel Moio ◽  
Luís Alcoforado ◽  
Cristina Coimbra Vieira
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Adult Students ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Family Responsibilities ◽  
Bologna Declaration ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Enseñanza Superior ◽  
The University

Em Portugal, ao mesmo tempo que se implementavam as orientações decorrentes dos compromissos da Declaração de Bolonha, foi criada legislação que enquadrava um novo regime de acesso de pessoas adultas ao ensino superior, o que provocou um acréscimo muito significativo de entradas, nas Universidades e Institutos Politécnicos, para maiores de vinte e três anos. Neste trabalho, apresentamos um estudo com estes estudantes, que frequentam a Universidade de Coimbra, realizado através de questionário com perguntas fechadas e abertas, seguido de focus group, onde se pode compreender a importância que a oportunidade de acesso e a experiência vivida, enquanto estudantes, têm para estas pessoas, mesmo que, em termos gerais, seja muito pouco considerada a sua especificidade de estudantes com caraterísticas e responsabilidades, profissionais e familiares, bastante diferentes.   PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Declaração de Bolonha; Acesso de adultos ao ensino superior; Saberes experienciais.     ABSTRACT In Portugal, while implementing the guidelines stemming from the commitments of the Bologna Declaration, legislation was created that framed a new regime for adult access to higher education, which has led to a very significant increase in enrollments in Universities and Institutes Polytechnics, for people with more than twenty-three years. In this paper, we present a study with these students, who attend the University of Coimbra, conducted through a questionnaire with close-ended and open-ended questions, followed by a focus group, where one can understand the importance that the opportunity of access and the lived experience as a student represented for these people, even if, in general terms, their specificity as students with quite different characteristics and professional and family responsibilities is not very taken into account.   KEYWORDS: Bologna Declaration; Access of adult students to higher education; Experiential knowledge.     RESUMEN En Portugal, al mismo tiempo que se implementaban las orientaciones derivadas de los compromisos de la Declaración de Bolonia, se creó legislación que enmarca un nuevo régimen de acceso de personas adultas a la enseñanza superior, lo que provocó un acrecimiento muy significativo de ingresos, en las Universidades e Institutos Politécnicos, para personas con edad superior a veintitrés años. En este texto, presentamos un estudio con estos estudiantes, que frecuentan la Universidad de Coimbra, realizado a través de cuestionario con preguntas cerradas y abiertas, seguido de uno focus group, donde se puede comprender la importancia que la oportunidad de acceso y la experiencia vivida, como estudiantes, tiene para estas personas, aunque, en términos generales, sea muy poco considerada su especificidad de estudiantes con características y responsabilidades, en términos profesionales y familiares, muy distintas.   PALABRAS CLAVE: Declaración de Bolonia; Acceso de adultos a la enseñanza superior; Conocimientos experienciales.

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