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Student mobility
Kaisu Piiroinen
Ministry of Education, Science and CultureDepartment for Higher Education and [email protected]
Emrex kick off - meeting13.1.2015
Importance of student mobility
• Internationalisation one key issue• Mobility one key indicator
– core funding of HEs– quentative targets of HEs– Target EU2020 – 20% of graduates should have
study or training period abroad
• Value and added value– work, language skills, people, social skills,
experiences, relationships
Polytechnics core funding from 2014
Universities core funding from 2015
Quantitative targets for universities 2013-2016
UNIVERSITIES2012 2013
Target 2013-2016
Bachelor’s degrees 13 014 13 016 14 200
Master’s degrees 13 829 14 444 15 023
PhDs 1 649 1 724 1 635
Foreign degree students 9 628 10 240 8 950
Exchange students (incoming & outgoing, > 3 months)
10 661 10 713 11 950
Quantitative targets for polytechnics 2013-2016
POLYTECHNICS2012 2013
Target2013-2016
Polytechnic degrees 21 992 22 664 21 907
Vocational teacher education
1 740 1 877 1 600
Polytechnic Masters 1 707 1 946 2 018
Foreign degree students 9 378 9 517 7 475
Exchange students (incoming & outgoing, > 3 months)
8 679 8 926 8 830
Mobility – why not?
Academic, financial, conserns related to self- confidece, work related barriers, lack of guidance and information
Academic concerns typical to Finnish students– miss part of studies at home– be delayed in studies– lack of guidance from home institution– difficulties to fit studies at home institution– uncertaincy about the quality of education abroad– difficulties getting studies (pre)approved
All ECTS approved to Finnish degree to 70% of students. No ECTS approved 3%.
Thank you for your attention!
• http://www.cimo.fi/instancedata/prime_product_julkaisu/cimo/embeds/cimowwwstructure/28083_Living_and_learning.pdf
• http://www.minedu.fi/OPM/Julkaisut/2014/Opiskelijatutkimus_2014.html?lang=fi&extra_locale=en
• http://www.minedu.fi/export/sites/default/OPM/Julkaisut/2009/liitteet/opm23.pdf?lang=fi