Troublesome Access: Non-Admission Experiences in the Competitive Finnish Higher Education

Isopahkala-Bouret, Ulpukka

doi:10.3390/socsci8110302

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“…The leading provisions of the education philosophy and organizational and methodological principles of the educational process arrangement will be defined through the use of the methodological construct of the study. Currently, a global process of convergence of all significant institutions of humanity is being observed, which, first of all, is related to the intellectual potential of civilization-science and education [22,23]. Thus, one can form the following principles of the modern education paradigm:…”

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System-Cluster Technology of e-Learning Improvement under the Conditions of COVID-19

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The paper defines the scientific provisions on the feasibility and effectiveness of using e-learning under conditions of quarantine restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was proved that within the use of e-learning there has been a convergence between the scientific and methodological bases and the learning process itself, and new approaches to the general didactic and information content of e-learning courses within the education process have been formed. Modern platforms of e-learning are examined and a scheme involving the synchronous technology of e-learning was formed. Within the framework of the suggested learning platform, effective learning tools under conditions of quarantine restrictions were identified, the use of which allows the most successful solution of didactic tasks facing e-learning to be ensured on the basis of the everyday use of digital media and electronic devices for learning purposes. The fractal-cluster technology of an e-learning organization was suggested for an introduction. The functional dependencies on the forms and technologies of the educational process for the efficiency of higher education were obtained. The expediency of introducing fractal-cluster structures into the organizational component of the educational process was determined. Based on the tools of the fractal-cluster approach, a model of organization of the educational process in the information-entropy format was formulated.

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System-Cluster Technology of e-Learning Improvement under the Conditions of COVID-19

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“…Admission to all institutions is based on numerus clausus; that is, a limited number of student places. This makes the Finnish system one of the most competitive HE systems in the world, as more than 70% of the annual applicants do not gain admittance (Isopahkala-Bouret, 2019). A recent study on social equality in Finnish student admissions suggests that high selectivity produces substantially different distributions of student populations in different fields of education and in different HE sectors (Nori et al, 2021).…”

Section: The Finnish Higher Education System In the International Contextmentioning

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Positional competition in a binary system: the case of Finnish higher education

2021

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Positional competition in the labour market entails graduate opportunities that depend not only on graduates’ skills, experience and abilities, but also on how their educational credentials compare to those of others. In this study, we examined the positional competition in the Finnish labour market and compared the influence of different ‘degree types’ on the probability of obtaining high-paid, high-status jobs. We used a register-based 5% sample of 25–45-year-old Finnish higher education (HE) graduates from 2010 to 2012 (N = 63 486). It was expected that the relative position of graduates would be affected by the degree level as well as the educational field and the binary division (university vs. non-university) of HE. Therefore, master’s and bachelor’s degree levels in all educational fields from universities versus universities of applied sciences (UASs) were included. The method of analysis was logistic regression. According to our results, the binary divide structured the opportunities to enter high-paid, high-status jobs within different fields of education. The university master’s degree graduates had the highest probability of succeeding in the Finnish labour market, and their status/rank elevated them above the competition by regulating access to certain professions or occupations through specific qualification requirements (i.e., credential social closure). Moreover, our results demonstrated how the degree rankings and the relative distance between university and UAS degrees vary in different fields. The Finnish case offers a valuable point of comparison to other HE systems with a binary structure.

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“…Against this background, however, the Finnish admission system to higher education is among the OECD’s most competitive (OECD, 2019), resulting in a slow transition to higher education with many young people taking gap years prior to entering university (Isopahkala-Bouret, 2019). The bottleneck in the transition is at the juncture of secondary and higher education.…”

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Market-Making Practices of Private Tutoring in Finland: Commercialization of Exam Preparation for Admission to Higher Education

Jokila

Haltia

Kosunen

2020

ECNU Review of Education

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Purpose: This study focuses on courses that prepare applicants for universities’ highly competitive entrance examinations in Finland. The analysis clarifies the market-making practices and the construction of this field. Design/Approach/Methods: To understand these processes, we use Çalişkan and Callon’s five framings for studying marketization as a heuristic framework. In our analysis, we combine different data sets, including data on course provision, thematic interviews, documents, and ethnographic notes. Findings: In this article, we argue that the preparatory course markets in Finland are an example of private tutoring which operates in the privacy of the university applicants’ exam preparation process, thus commercializing this process. The market making of this type of private tutoring is an assemblage of a variety of agents that interact in parallel with each other. Originality/Value: This study aims to contribute to the systemic understanding of the assemblage of private tutoring markets in an equality-focused Nordic country by providing new heuristic lenses from economic sociology through which to view private tutoring.

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Troublesome Access: Non-Admission Experiences in the Competitive Finnish Higher Education

Cited by 9 publications

References 22 publications

System-Cluster Technology of e-Learning Improvement under the Conditions of COVID-19

System-Cluster Technology of e-Learning Improvement under the Conditions of COVID-19

Positional competition in a binary system: the case of Finnish higher education

Market-Making Practices of Private Tutoring in Finland: Commercialization of Exam Preparation for Admission to Higher Education

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