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Kirjoittaja Hannu Jussi » 06.01.2014 22:31
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Sama englanniksi, josta onkin helpompi kääntää suomeksi ... siis googlen kautta
Cooperation may be the springboard for the Finnish higher education policy debate in recent years, the Nordic countries have had no central position , although there have been posts that advocate closer strategic cooperation primarily between Finnish and Swedish universities.
" Relates to the number of top universities to population appears Scandinavia even as the world's strongest university region . Would the Kalmar Union still exist would Norden seen as one of the world's leading research countries. "
The time is ripe for a revaluation. We need in many areas, the revitalization of the Nordic and this also applies to universities and colleges.
HBL-ARKIV/LEIF WECKSTRÖM IN THE TOP . Helsinki University ranks among world's top 100 universities.
As an example, the international evaluation of the Finnish Academy published a few months ago. The evaluation panel expects the Academy will develop a new strategy for internationalization and stressing that the strategy should explicitly take into account the Nordic level .
The reasons for previously downplayed the Nordic lie in common assertions of the following type : if you want to maintain a high quality , one should cooperate internationally, not Nordic . The Nordic universities are , after all, just mediocre copies of the real top universities . Even in our country, one hears sometimes asked why we are the world's best school (we thought ) is so mediocre university .
All these claims are misleading and based on a weak knowledge of the facts.
There is already an error of judgment to construct an opposition between Nordic and international cooperation. In fact, Nordic co- effectively support the Nordic researchers' international career and visibility. The University of Helsinki was made a few years ago an investigation under the telling title " The Nordic countries towards the top " which clearly showed that several of the university 's leading researchers reached their position in top world including the use of the Nordic networks.
Nordic cooperation can be an effective way to achieve greater international visibility and attract international funding . Just as American and British universities together taking advantage of their countries have a strong university profile can also be the Nordic universities together to prove their position in international competition .
In some areas we also have unique advantages that give us a strong position in the international research front. The social sciences and medical research , for example, in all our countries based on the availability of index data , many questions are the world's best.
Our global connectivity is not in contradiction to the Nordic needs . On the contrary, permitting electronic communication opportunities for joint development of teaching and a more effective division of labor in the North. Jointly produced online courses for an international audience , for example, in the Nordic studies can provide a good marketing both of our universities and our communities.
Nordic cooperation can retrieve its strength from the fact that our region has an unusually high concentration of top international universities. This can be illustrated with a look at some of the widely used leaderboards , which despite justified criticism gives some picture of the strength of the listed universities.
The most widely used research-related ranking list is the so -called Shanghai ranking. Among the hundred top universities ( including the world's 17,000 universities !) On this list are seven Nordic universities : University of Copenhagen ( 42) , Karolinska Institute (44) , University of Oslo (69), Uppsala University (73), University of Helsinki (76) , Aarhus University ( 81) and Stockholm University (82). The only countries in the world having more than those among the hundred best are the U.S. and Britain.
The Nordic region has more top universities than in Germany or France!
Relates to the number of top universities to population appears Scandinavia even as the world's strongest university region . Would the Kalmar Union still exist would Norden seen as one of the world's leading research countries. By an even more enhanced cooperation between the Nordic universities should also be without a Kalmar Union take advantage of the fact that the region is a center of gravity in the world's university system . This has not been done and emphasized adequately so far.
The Nordic university model is additionally unique in the sense that in an operational environment managed to combine the requirement for top-level research with educational equality. The quality of degrees from Nordic universities varies far less than is the case in the Anglo-Saxon academic world. With us, for example, the variations between graduates from different universities in respect of employment and career opportunities not dramatic .
In many places it has opened their eyes to the opportunities the strong Nordic universities, the region offers . Last spring, met at the University of Helsinki 50 Nordic universities rectors to us in good faith to discuss our common future. The discussion on Nordic infrastructure and other partnership opportunities are lively in other forums.
The vision is for ten years to have a close cooperative region with an internationally strong Nordic burned , which attracts a growing number of top academics to our part of the world and which provide an effective springboard for success in the international arena . One can also anticipate an emergence of structural nyskapningar , such as cross-border mergers , alliances and consortia infrastructure .
This can be done and will. You just have to dare enough .
