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"This Building Is Ours!" Student Activism against the University's Neoliberal Policy
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Perttu Ahoketo; Juha Suoranta – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2024
This article is an ethnography of a student protest against a Finnish university's plans to give up 25 percent of its campus buildings until 2030. The Finnish universities faced financial deficits primarily due to education cuts implemented by Finland's right-wing government between 2015 and 2019. To balance the budget, Tampere University proposed…
Descriptors: Activism, Neoliberalism, Student Attitudes, Ethnography
The Affective Economy of Feminist Leadership in Finnish Universities: Class-Based Knowledge for Navigating Neoliberalism and Neuroliberalism
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Morley, Louise; Lund, Rebecca W. B. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
Women leaders are frequently treated as one class -- a homogenised group with essentialised skills and competencies in binary relationship to male leaders. We explore how feminist ways of knowing gender and leadership, and circulations of affects, shape women's diverse leadership practices and identities within the neoliberal, and neuroliberal…
Descriptors: Feminism, Instructional Leadership, Gender Differences, Women Administrators
National Quality Assessment Systems in the Nordic Countries: Developing a Balance Between External and Internal Needs?
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Smeby, Jens-Christian; Stensaker, Bjorn – Higher Education Policy, 1999
Compares national higher education quality assessment systems in Finland, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, focusing particularly on the balance between internal and external societal needs in the systems' design and organization. Results indicate that systems are highly adjusted to each country's specific governance strategies, resulting in very…
Descriptors: College Administration, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Educational Assessment
Academic and Administrative Interface: Application to National Circumstances.
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Visakorpi, Jarmo K. – Higher Education Management, 1996
Changes in staffing patterns of Finnish universities are examined, particularly the increase in administrative staff in relation to academic staff. Explanations are offered for the decrease in maintenance, service, and auxiliary research and teaching personnel. New skills that are required in these areas and relations between administrative and…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Administrators