Published: 23:38 pm,Thursday 12 December 2024
65.5% high school grads in 2023 quit study
A total of 65.5 per cent of passers of the matriculation examination in spring 2023 were left outside education, according to Statistics Finland. There were 26,400 new completers of the matriculation examination in the spring term 2023, of whom 57 per cent were women. Seventy-seven per cent of new passers
Published: 04:01 am,Wednesday 11 December 2024
Finland improves skills of adult population
Finland is among the few countries where the skills of the adult population have actually improved from just over a decade ago, according to the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) survey. Key information processing skills needed by Finland’s adult population (aged 16 to 65)
Published: 01:47 am,Tuesday 26 November 2024
Higher Edu students spend too much time online :THL
An increasing number of students find their internet use problematic, according to the Finnish Student Health and Wellbeing Survey conducted by the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL). Positive changes were taken place in the lifestyles of higher education students over the past three years while negative changes
Published: 23:21 pm,Friday 22 November 2024
10,900 students offered places in Finnish higher Edu autumn session
A total of 10,900 students were offered admission in the autumn joint application to higher educational institutions in Finland, said the Finnish National Agency For Education in a press release on Friday. A total of 44,900 applicants participated in the application, of which 24%, were offered admission. More than half
Published: 03:16 am,Friday 1 November 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: 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
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