Joint Efforts for Internationalisation

133 Pages·2013·1.52 MB·English

RIIKKA VANHANEN
HELLI KITINOJA
JYRKI HOLAPPA
(EDS.)
FINLAND
UEnntivrearnscitei eEsx aomf iAnpaptliioends S ocuietnscidese’ Finland

– Joint Efforts for
Internationalisation
F INNIPS
JAMK UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES | JAMK.FI
FINNIPS
– JOINT EFFORTS
FOR INTERNATIONALISATION
PubLIcATIONS OF JAmk uNIvERSITy OF APPLIEd ScIENcES 155
RIIkkA vANhANEN
hELLI kITINOJA
JyRkI hOLAPPA
(EdS.)
FINNIPS
– JOINT EFFORTS
FOR INTERNATIONALISATION
PubLIcATIONS OF JAmk uNIvERSITy OF APPLIEd ScIENcES -SERIES
Editor • Teemu Makkonen
©2013
Authors & JAMK University of Applied Sciences
FINNIPS – JOINT EFFORTS FOR INTERNATIONALISATION
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ISBN 978-951-830-277-6 (Printed)
ISbN 978-951-830-278-3 (PdF)
ISSN 1456-2332
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cONTENTS
AbSTRAcT ....................................................................................................8
FOREwORd ..................................................................................................9
INTROducTION
Riikka Vanhanen
FROM FINNIBS TO FINNIPS: DIVERSE RANgE OF COOPERATION
ACTIVITIES AMONg INTERNATIONAL DEgREE PROgRAMMES ................12
ThE SIgNIFICANCE OF INTERNATIONAL UAS EDUCATION IN FINLAND
Carita Blomqvist
FINNISh POLYTEChNICS IN ThE EUROPEAN hIghER
EducATION AREA.......................................................................................22
Jussi halttunen
ThE STRATEgIC SIgNIFICANCE OF gLOBAL EDUCATION IN A
FOREIgN LANgUAgE AT UNIVERSITIES OF APPLIED SCIENCES .............31
helli Kitinoja
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION AND DEgREE PROgRAMMES
AS A BASIS FOR gLOBAL COMPETENCY AND CITIzENShIP ...................41
INTERNATIONAL DEgREE PROgRAMMES IN VARIOUS FIELDS OF STUDY
Jyrki holappa, Tuuli Mirola and Petra Yli-Kovero
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS EDUCATION: FROM LABOUR
mARkET NEEdS TO SuccESSFuL INTERNATIONAL cAREERS ................52
Aila Puttonen
ThE POSITIVE EFFECTS OF ThE ENgINEERINg DEgREE
PROgRAMMES IN ENgLISh.......................................................................56
Marjo Palovaara and William garbrah
TOWARDS MULTICULTURAL NURSINg IN FINLAND ..................................61
Ulla Kangasniemi and heli Korpinen
TOURISM EDUCATION CONTRIBUTES TO REgIONAL
dEvELOPmENT ANd ThE TOuRISm INduSTRy ........................................65
Ilkka Mikkonen
FINNIPS BRINgS IN hALF OF ThE OULU BIT STUDENTS .........................68
Saara Newton and Mikko Matveinen
FROM TRADITIONAL DESIgN EDUCATION
TO INTERNATIONAL DESIgN ......................................................................73
FINNIPS IN ACTION: ExPERIENCES FROM AROUND ThE WORLD
Riikka Vanhanen
FINNIPS ENTRANCE ExAMINATIONS OUTSIDE FINLAND ..........................78
Anastasia McAvennie
APPLIcATION PROcESS IN RuSSIA IS A mATTER
FOR ThE whOLE FAmILy ...........................................................................88
Eija Torkinlampi
ACKNOWLEDgINg ThE LOCAL CULTURE:
ARRANgINg ThE ENTRANCE ExAMINATIONS IN ChINA ...........................91
Otieno Mbare
FINNIPS ExAMS IN KENYA: gATEWAY TO hIgh-QUALITY
EducATION ...............................................................................................94
Agnes Bauer
FROM ThE hEART OF EUROPE TO FINLAND’S TANgO CAPITAL .............98
Do Toan Trung
vIETNAmESE STudENT’S vIEw ON EducATION ANd
LIVINg IN FINLAND ...................................................................................101
INTERNATIONAL EducATION cREATES POTENTIAL FOR ThE LAbOuR
mARkET
Arja Majakulma
WhERE DO ThE INTERNATIONAL gRADUATES FROM FINNISh
uNIvERSITIES OF APPLIEd ScIENcES ENd uP – ANd why? ...............104
Maria Loukola
EMPLOYER’S VIEW ON FOREIgN NURSINg STUDENTS
AS TRAINEES IN FINLANd .......................................................................116
Salla Niittymäki and Maaret Viskari
PAJATSO PROJECT ENhANCES ThE EMPLOYABILITY OF FOREIgN
STudENTS OF hAmk uNIvERSITy OF APPLIEd ScIENcES ...................120
cONcLuSIONS ........................................................................................124
AuThORS .................................................................................................128
AbSTRAcT
Riikka Vanhanen, helli Kitinoja, Jyrki holappa (eds.)
FINNIPS – Joint Efforts for Internationalisation
Jyväskylä: JAMK University of Applied Sciences, 2013, 132 s.
(Publications of JAMK University of Applied Sciences, 155)
ISSN: 1456-2332
ISBN: 978-951-830-277-6 (Printed)
ISBN: 978-951-830-278-3 (PDF)
Finnish Network for International Programmes (FINNIPS) is a cooperation
body, which, in 2013, brings together 22 Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS)
and over 50 of their Bachelor-level Degree Programmes conducted in English.
The main task of the network is to arrange entrance examinations to these
programmes in a selection of countries outside Finland.
This publication illuminates the reasons for arranging entrance examinations
abroad in pursuance of describing the development and activities of the FINNIPS
network. The depiction is done as a part of a wider mission to shed light on the
role and significance of international degree programmes in Finnish UASs. The
articles of the volume approach UAS education from various perspectives and
together, they provide a comprehensive picture of the many different ways in
which internationalisation can be enhanced by way of joint efforts.
Keywords: Universities of Applied Sciences, Internationalisation, International
Degree Programmes, Finnish Network for International Programmes, FINNIPS,
Entrance Examinations, Quality of Higher Education, Employability, Global
Citizenship
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FOREwORd
TOP-cLASS EducATION FROm FINLANd
The Finnish higher education system calls for more international collaboration
in all its operations, and the challenges in the tougher international competition
will need to be confronted. It appears that in future higher education students
are willing and able to cross frontiers in search for the competences and
development possibilities they want. At the same time, education is becoming
a growing business worldwide. Finnish higher education institutions are also
expected to take part in this development by playing a more significant role in
selling education to people outside EEA.
It has been a long-term ambition for the Finnish Ministry of Education and
Culture to open education export in Finnish higher education. A term fee trial is
in progress and about a dozen Master’s degree programmes from universities
and universities of applied sciences have participated in the trial for a couple of
years. The trial has not expanded as was originally planned. Evaluation of the
trial has not been completed yet, but something has to be done to increase the
relatively low interest in Finnish paid education in order to really set the education
export in motion. This requires both legislative measures and customer-oriented
development of the supply and implementations. The needed measures are being
mapped in a working group set up by the Ministry of Education and Culture. The
working group aims at presenting its proposals this autumn.
The FINNIPS network has been one of the key actors in the development of
international education marketing and student admission in Finnish universities
of applied sciences. Being so small on their own – and even together – it is
necessary for the universities of applied sciences to join forces. Apart from that,
the fields and competences offered in education and RDI have to be considered
carefully. The target countries and groups for marketing efforts also have to be
considered more closely and thoroughly.
This publication describes excellently the development and operation of the
FINNIPS network and demonstrates what can be achieved through cooperation.
I welcome all foreign students to apply for Finnish top-class education.
Markku Lahtinen
Chairman of Rectors’ Conference of Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences
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