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Meeting of the Board of the Union on 1 November 2024
The Board of the Finnish Union of University Professors met on 1 November 2024 and, among other things, approved and decided to submit the Union's Action Plan and Budget for 2025 to the Council for approval.
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Nordic Academic Freedom Under Threat – Time for Governments to Act
As the Nordic Council convene in Iceland this October, they must confront a growing and urgent challenge: the preservation of academic freedom. For decades, the Nordic region has been a global example of how to protect academic institutions from political, commercial, and ideological pressures. Our universities have thrived as places of i…
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Media releases
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The new Directory of Professors reflects the change in society
The Finnish Union of University Professors has published the Directory of Professors, which contains information on the professoriate from the founding year of the Academy of Turku from 1640 to 2024. The participants include 9,200 professors or persons on the professors’ tenure track who work or have worked at a Finnish university or rese…
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Education funding must be ensured even in financially difficult times
Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s Government convenes for the government discussion on spending limits on 15–16 April. The Government’s objective for the spending limits discussion is to decide on new adjustment measures amounting to around 3 billion euro. Funding for education and research must be ensured even in financially difficult times.…
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Professors’ blog
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The Right to be Wrong
Setting aside the growing threat to the scientific literature from outright fraud, wilful misinterpretation, undeclared conflicts of interest, low-quality peer review and malign pseudo- science, it is an inevitable fact that much of what is put into print today will turn out to be erroneous when revisited in the future. At the very least,…
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An internal market for higher education in Europe?
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. Th…
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