Finnish Higher Education Expansion and Regional Policy

Autor/in	Saarivirta, Toni
Titel	Finnish Higher Education Expansion and Regional Policy
Quelle	In: Higher Education Quarterly, 64 (2010) 4, S.353-372 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0951-5224
DOI	10.1111/j.1468-2273.2010.00455.x
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Foreign Countries; Educational Demand; Educational Development; Educational Policy; Comparative Education; Governance; Institutional Characteristics; Social Change; Equal Education; Regional Characteristics; Regional Planning; Educational History; Finland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Ausland; Bildungsanforderung; Bildungsnachfrage; Bildungsentwicklung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Finanzierung; Sozialer Wandel; Regionaler Faktor; Regionalplanung; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Finnland
Abstract	This paper concentrates on the expansion of Finnish higher education between the 1960s and 1970s, exposes its background in the light of the policy decisions that were made, compares the unique features of this expansion with those of certain other countries, discusses the impact of the controlled "top down" governance of higher education policy, and describes the Finnish higher education system today. The paper argues that the driving forces behind universal mass higher education were, on the one hand, changes in the structure of society, and on the other hand, individual demand for education but also increased need for skills in production processes. This was the case in Finland as well but the Finnish higher education expansion was also characterised by regionalism. The actual location of universities in the era of expansion was a function of local political actors who were able to have an influence on ruling political parties. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10