Keyword: Higher education
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Oscar Smart
Learning by doing: building cross-sector collaboration
Put three cities, one university of applied sciences, and three universities together. What do you get? Challenges, yes. Disappointments, certainly. Learning, growth, and a better understanding of cross-sector collaboration, without a doubt. But most importantly, a clearer understanding of how our own organisations work.
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Pamela Spokes
Broken in the same places: the hidden patterns in higher education’s biggest service design challenges
When over 100 university staff members from seven different countries were asked to name one problem in their institution that could be fixed with service design, nobody expected them to give the same answers. Higher education is full of people working hard to make things work, and full of students and staff who feel like things aren't quite right. This article is about what pattern reveals and what it suggests about how Higher Education can finally begin to fix it.
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Hanna Repo Jamal, Päivi Vartiainen
Cultural differences experience by CALD nursing students – a follow-up study
The number of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) students in Finnish higher education is increasing. The cultural differences they experience must be recognised and effectively integrated into the planning and implementation of education. The results presented in this article are part of an evaluation study on functionally bilingual nursing education.
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Pamela Spokes
Developing the entrepreneurial mindset in education administration
To develop an entrepreneurial mindset within education administration, institutions must align their culture, structures, and metrics with learning, experimentation, creativity, and adaptability. That is the answer to balancing accountability with the constant need to develop and improve services.
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Mona Roman
Why is top management support essential for European University alliances?
The European University alliances are one of the four flagship initiatives of the European Higher Education Area. The U!REKA alliance’s journey shows how committed management engagement can drive deep, transformative cooperation between partner institutions. This article offers my personal reflection as a Lead Coordinator of U!REKA alliance as regards our alliance approach to building true engagement and what other alliances can learn from our experience.
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Pamela Spokes
Designing change: bringing service design to Namibia’s next generation of university administrators
Introducing service design principles can spark new ways of thinking about education, entrepreneurship, and social innovation.
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Pamela Spokes
Service design as a core competence in Finnish higher education
Policymakers, academic leaders, and educators need to recognise service design as a strategic necessity and make it a core competence across disciplines.
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Evelin Delic, Eunice Siame-Moono
Episode 3: Triumphs of bilingual nursing
In this episode of the Journeys in bilingual nursing education podcast third-year student Evelin Delic reflects on her growth through Finland’s bilingual nursing programme, sharing honest insights on overcoming imposter syndrome, building confidence, and becoming a compassionate nurse with host Eunice Siame-Moono.
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Grace Chung
Coordinating cooperation of six higher education institutions brings challenges and benefits
Project coordination is both challenging and rewarding work. Bigger the project, more challenges. Yet, we need the collaboration for better outcomes.
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Nishanie Reckerman, Eunice Siame-Moono
Episode 2: Developing care skills across cultures
In this Journeys in bilingual nursing education podcast Nishanie Reckerman, a third-year student, explores how cultural background and bilingual learning foster empathy, cultural competence, and deeper patient relationships in Finnish nursing.