Professor of Commercial Law, Hanken School of Economics
In March 2024, the European Commission presented its new higher education package. The package includes initiatives on a European degree, a European quality assurance and recognition system, and careers in higher education. The package builds on earlier initiatives ranging from a European strategy for universities to micro-credentials. The Commission has plans for the European Education...
Introduction While the public funding of universities is a major topic in the policy discourse, there has been relatively little focus on how universities use their funding and manage their assets. The lack of interest may partly be explained by the fact that university financial management largely falls within institutional autonomy. But university financial management...
Introduction Tenure or its equivalents mean a strong level of protection of the employment relationship of permanent research and teaching faculty at universities. In its decision of 10 January 2023 (KKO 2023:1), the Supreme Court of Finland wiped out the protection of tenure at Finnish universities for no proper reason. In this blog post, I...