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Title: Challenges of higher engineering education and lifelong learning in Finland


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Challenges of higher engineering education and
lifelong learning in Finland
  • Mr.Jukka Mäkelä, MP, 25.9.2008

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Jukka Mäkelä
  • Member of the Finnish Parliament
  • member of the education committee
  • Chairman of the City Board (City of Espoo)
  • Chairperson of cooperation group of Finnish
    engineering education to create national strategy
  • Aalto university Member of steering committee
  • Master of Science in Technology (HUT)

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Quality of Higher education the challenges are
growing
GLOBAL COMPETITION
ARRIVAL OF INFORMATION SOCIETY
SERVICE INDUSTRIES
basic IT skills
foreign languages
multidisciplinarity
networking
commitment to quality
global village attitude
creativity
teamwork
GOOD GENERAL EDUCATION
commitment to sustainable development
communication
handle stress
entrepreneurial attitude
learn how to learn
cope with constant change
manage time
self-steering
ability to search, classify and analyze
information
REDESIGN OF WORK AND ORGANIZATION
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGY
Source Korhonen, K. Educating Engineers of the
21st Century The Challenges of Higher
Engineering Education in Finland.
LIFELONG LEARNING
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Learning Society Framework for education
higher lever on average education
from subject-based to skill-based curriculum
good general education
NEW SKILL REQUIREMENTS MORE SKILL
REQUIREMENTS MORE DEMANDING SKILL
REQUIREMENTS FAST CHANGING SKILL REQUIREMENTS
new learning technologies in use
continuous guality improvement of education
well managed educational chain
lifelong learning
close co-operation between university and industry
5
Education planning is difficult
  • If anyone can tell you what this business is
    going to look like five years from now, I want to
    know what they have been smoking.
  • An unknown analyst of telecommunications industry

6
University reform
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What will change...
  • Autonomy will strengthen universities will have
    an independent legal status
  • Universities will take the place of the State as
    employers civil-service employment relationships
    will become contractual employment relationships
  • Community relations will strengthen half of the
    university board members (including the chairman)
    will be persons external to the university
    community (professors, other personnel, students)
    defined in the act
  • Greater latitude with finances donations,
    income from capital and business activities
  • New universities Aalto university (HUT, HSE,
    TaiK), University of Eastern Finland
    (universities of Kuopio Joensuu) and the new
    Turku University (University of Turku, TSE)
  • Performance agreement procedure will be lighter
  • Charging tuition fees on a trial basis for
    separate masters programs from students from
    outside the EU/EEA

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The proposal will not change...
  • The freedom of research, art and education
  • Self-government and academic decision-making
  • Research and higher education remain as the main
    tasks of the universities
  • The State will guarantee core funding, taking
    into account the development of costs
  • Education leading to a degree will continue to
    be free of charge

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Adult Education
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Adult education system
  • Adult education and training is provided by appr.
    800 institutions in Finland some of them are
    specialised adult education providers.
  • Adult education is available within the official
    education system in
  • adult upper secondary schools
  • vocational institutions and vocational adult
    training centres
  • national and private vocational institutions
  • polytechnics and universities
  • and in liberal adult education in
  • adult education centers
  • folk high schools
  • summer universities
  • study centers
  • sports institutes
  • Adult education also includes staff-development
    and other training provided or purchased by
    employers.
  • Labor market training is financed by the labor
    administration and mainly intended for unemployed
    persons and those aged 20 or over who are
    threatened by unemployment.

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Adult Education Reform
  • To clarify steering and finance, administration
    and offering of adult education in Finnish
    Education Institutes.
  • is part of the governments acts to improve
    employment as well as availability and know-how
    of labor
  • The Reform covers
  • Vocational Adult Education
  • Adult Education in HEIs
  • Labor market training
  • Staff development and Training provided by
    employers
  • The aims include
  • Improving the mobility of workforce
  • improving vocational mobility
  • encouraging workforce to continuing improvement
    and maintaining of know-how
  • Improving of productivity
  • to ease the employment of immigrants
  • delaying retirement

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Aalto University
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Alvar Aalto
  • Architect
  • Designer
  • Academician
  • Professor (MIT)
  • TKK alumni

Aalto was a learned humanist, a diversely
creative person who tackled problems in depth and
avoided settling for the ordinary. He was able to
find sustainable solutions by doing things
differently. He represents our innovative nature,
the appreciation of culture and humanism, and the
use of technology and art to create imaginative
solutions that respect the needs of people.
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Charter of foundation
  • The purpose of Aalto University Foundation is to
    promote, in a manner to be laid down in
    legislation, free research and scientific and
    artistic erudition, provide higher education
    based on research, and educate students to serve
    their country and humanity.
  • The Foundation is an autonomous multidisciplinary
    art and science community which operates in the
    fields of technology, economics, and art and
    design and in fields closely related to them.
  • The Foundation is established with the proviso
    that the Foundation is assigned in legislation,
    and the Foundation will have, public tasks
    assigned to universities in legislation. Subject
    to relevant provisions in university legislation,
    the operations of Helsinki School of Economics,
    Helsinki University of Technology and the
    University of Art and Design will be transferred
    to the Foundation.

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Main messages for transformation
  • Student-centered culture that will motivate
    passionate learning and the search for new ideas
  • Opportunities for long-term, high-quality
    research and motivating academic career paths and
    working environments
  • Strong domestic and international cooperation
    network and form partnerships that provide
    support in striving toward the universitys
    objectives

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Pilot Projects
  • Research
  • Sustainable Communities
  • Economics and the Internet of the Future
  • Neuro Applications
  • "Factories"
  • Design Factory
  • Media Factory
  • Service Factory
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