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Wednesday November 13, 2024

More higher education students use FSHS services

About half of higher education students mainly use Finnish Student Health Service (FSHS) health services, said the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) in a press release on Thursday referring to a survey. According to the Finnish Student Health and Wellbeing Survey (KOTT), in universities of applied sciences

Published: 02:26 am,Tuesday 29 October 2024

Finland wins Int´l award for supporting displaced scholars

Finland has received an international award recently for its efforts to support researchers who have fled crisis areas, said Finnish National Agency for Education in a press release on Monday. The Institute for International Education (IIE), American cooperation partner of the Finnish National Agency for Education presented the award. The

Published: 03:41 am,Friday 18 October 2024

OLL demands cancellation of VAT hike in sports services

The Finnish Student Sports Federation (OLL) on Thursday demanded that the VAT rate increase of sports services be abandoned, said the OLL in a press release. The government’s proposal being deliberated by Parliament would increase the VAT rate of sports services from 10 per cent to 14 per cent.

Published: 20:59 pm,Monday 14 October 2024

Nobel in Economics shared by 3 recipients

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decided on Monday to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson, reported Xinhua. This trio, consisting of Acemoglu and Johnson from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Published: 02:50 am,Thursday 10 October 2024

No Finnish university secures place in world´s top 100 universities

None of the Finnish universities secured place in the list of the best 100 universities in the world, according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025, published on Wednesday. The Helsinki University ranked 107 to become the top among the Finnish universities. The Aalto University ranked 196th in

Published: 00:33 am,Thursday 10 October 2024

Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to 3 scientists for work on proteins

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to David Baker for computational protein design, and to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper for protein structure prediction, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Wednesday, reported Xinhua. Baker is based at the University of Washington in Seattle, while

Published: 14:56 pm,Tuesday 8 October 2024

2 win Nobel in Physics for discoveries enabling machine learning

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics went to two scientists, John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton, for their foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Tuesday, reported Xinhua. This year's laureates for the prize

Published: 00:33 am,Tuesday 1 October 2024

Kela verifies progress of 20,000 students to decide financial aid

The national social insurance institution-Kela is monitoring study progress of 20,000 students in upper secondary education and higher education to take decision about continuation of their financial aid from Kela, said an official press release on Monday. Students are required to make satisfactory progress with their studies in order

Published: 02:18 am,Saturday 21 September 2024

More women complete higher education than men in 2023

A total of 3,581,800 students completed a post-comprehensive level qualification in Finland in 2023, according to Statistics Finland. Seventy-five per cent of the population aged 15 or over had completed a post-comprehensive level qualification. Seventy-seven per cent of women and 73 per cent of men had completed a post-comprehensive level

Published: 03:33 am,Friday 13 September 2024

Fewer students apply to higher education autumn session

A total of 45 100 applicants participated in the autumn joint application to higher education in Finland this year, said the Finnish National Agency For Education in a press release on Thursday. The application period ended on Wednesday. The number is about 10 800 less than in the corresponding joint

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