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Guía para estudiantes extranjeros que desean cursar estudios en Finlandia. Comienza con una introducción sobre el sistema educativo del país y a continuación describe la estructura y el alcance de los estudios académicos, la admisión en las universidades, reconocimiento internacional de los estudios académicos, cursos impartidos en Finlandia, aspectos sociales de la educación en Finlandia (gastos de estudios y alojamiento, seguros médicos, residencias, empleo, etc), administración de la educación superior, regulaciones oficiales que tienen que ver con los estudiantes extranjeros en Finlandia y apéndices estadísticos y direcciones de interés.
This volume provides a comprehensive account of the implementation of bilingual education programs in countries throughout the world. For academics, graduate students, and policymakers, this volume clearly outlines the social and educational goals that can be achieved through bilingual education. It highlights the need to take account of the complex political context of inter-group relationships within which bilingual programs are inevitably embedded.
Proceedings of the Third IDMME Conference held in Montreal, Canada, May 2000
Overview of the oragnization of research and current work in universities and colleges in Finland, by subject, with a list of institutions.
Evaluation is an important issue in all European societies: it concerns all organisations and institutions whether they like it or not. Organisations in higher education are not an exception; on the contrary, during recent years, university evaluations have moved in a formal and routine direction. This book's hypothesis is that this development has strengthened the institutional tendencies of evaluation. By looking through the lens of legitimacy, this study analyses the ideologies, models and practices of English and Finnish higher education evaluations. The central question is: what gives modern higher education evaluation its legitimacy? This book shows readers the many-sided elements of legitimate evaluation and ends with conclusions that show the similarities and differences of institutional university evaluations in Finland and in England.
This volume examines self-initiated expatriates (SIEs), the category of highly skilled people whose movement from one country to another is by choice. Although they are not forced to relocate due to work, conflict or natural disaster, their migration pattern is every bit as complex. The book challenges previous theoretical approaches that take for granted a more simplistic view of this population, and advances that mobility of SIEs relates to the expatriates themselves, their conditions and the different structures intervening in their career life course. With their visible increase worldwide, this book positions itself as a nexus for this on-going discussion, while linking self-initiated ex...