The university system and higher education policy in Finland: Between the ideal and reality of &#034;higher education for all&#034; (핀란드의 대학 체제와 고등교육 정책에 관한 연구: &#039;모두를 위한 고등교육(higher education for all)&#039;의 이념과 현실)

Seo Hyeon Su (서현수)

The university system and higher education policy in Finland: Between the ideal and reality of "higher education for all"

Journal of the Scandinavian Society of Korea
Abbr : JSSK
2023, (32), pp.93-140
Publisher : The Scandinavian Society of Korea
Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > North Europe(Scandinavian)
Published : December 31, 2023

Seo Hyeon Su ¹

¹한국교원대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study analyzes the university system and higher education policy in Finland, a country that emerged as a leading innovator through the 20th Century as a member of the Nordic countries by creating a virtuous cycle of democracy, welfare state, and education and social policy. In particular, the paper examines how the Finnish university system was decentralized and expanded in the post-war development of democracy and the welfare state in Finland through the linkage of regional development policies and social democratic ideal of equal education; how universities of applied sciences were created and institutionalized in the context of the economic crisis of the early 1990s and the establishment of a national innovation system; and how the 2010 Universities Act reform was implemented under the hegemony of neoliberal ideology such as academic capitalism and national competitiveness discourses. It provides an systemic examination of how different social and functional pressures play out in the process of university system changes and higher education policy development, how different political actors such as the Ministry of Education, parliamentary party groups, and representative organizations of universities and labor markets competed and interacted, and how ideologies and policy ideas such as local democracy, universalist concept of equal education, and neoliberal market-oriented discourses of educational reforms have made influences in the process.

KEYWORDS

Finland, university reform, higher education policy, regional policy, ‘higher education for all’, national innovation systems, university of applied sciences, academic capitalism

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