Edited by Jussi Valimaa Jyvaskyla, Finland: University of Jyvaskyla, Institute for Educational Research, 2001.
People in the Australian higher education community probably seldom think of Finland. However the Finnish and Australian higher education systems have many similar characteristics. Both nations have a strong commitment to social equity shaping education policy, very much in the Scandinavian tradition for the Finns. As a result, the universities of both systems are predominantly public institutions. Both nations have relatively small systems in international terms, yet both provide education for rural and remote regions of low population density. Both nations are small and their economies are exposed to the potentially negative effects of globalization. The Finns are particularly alert to these forces, wedged as they are between Sweden and Russia and with a turbulent national history as a borderland and intermittent battleground for more powerful neighbors.
Finnish higher education in transition is edited by Jussi Valimaa of the Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyvaskyla, and is co-authored by his Institute colleagues. The book is written in English with the international community in mind. Valimaa contributes …
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