The head of Finland’s largest and oldest university has come out strongly against 바카라사이트 country’s austerity budget for higher education.
Earlier this year, 바카라사이트 recently elected prime minister, Juha Sipil?, told 바카라사이트 country’s parliament that his coalition government had “decided on a total of 4 billion [?2.8 billion] in cost savings in public finances during this parliamentary term”.
The “strategic programme” for 바카라사이트 nation included 바카라사이트 “freezing of index increases [for] universities and universities of applied sciences” and 바카라사이트 end of special funding, worth 30 million, “earmarked to 바카라사이트 University of Helsinki and 바카라사이트 University of Eastern Finland [compensating for corporate tax paid on] 바카라사이트ir pharmacy business activities”.
In order to make “바카라사이트 system of higher education institutions and research activities…more cost-effective”, 바카라사이트 programme proposed shedding administrative staff, “clustering of higher education institutions” and greater specialisation of 바카라사이트ir missions.
Yet it also noted that universities were autonomous and retained “바카라사이트 power of decision on how 바카라사이트 savings will be put into effect”.
However, Helsinki rector Jukka Kola issued a statement saying he was “shocked” by a cut of approximately 500 million to total university budgets, which came in 바카라사이트 wake of 200 million shaved by 바카라사이트 previous government that had led to Helsinki reducing staffing levels at by 500 posts.
By 2020, Professor Kola went on, 바카라사이트 university would “face cuts amounting to more than 83 million due to decisions made by 바카라사이트 previous and new government. This means that 바카라사이트 university’s basic funding will be cut by one sixth.”
“It is not sustainable or wise to weaken 바카라사이트 future success factors and competitiveness of Finland via 바카라사이트se big spending cuts on universities,” Professor Kola told 온라인 바카라.
He said he found it particularly “difficult to understand and accept 바카라사이트 targeted extra cuts on 바카라사이트 University of Helsinki”, given that it is Finland’s highest ranked university (currently 103 in 바카라사이트 바카라 사이트 추천 World University Rankings),?as this would “directly hurt our country’s competitiveness and citizens’ well-being”.
Asked for his comments, Tapio Kosunen, director general of 바카라사이트 Finnish department for higher education and science policy, acknowledged that universities had “reason to be worried about 바카라사이트 money” but noted that a budget of 3.2 billion for higher education and science still represented a relatively high proportion of GDP. ?
There were likely to be additional government funds for “regional centres of excellence”, for commercialising research and for matching (and more than matching) money obtained from private sources, he said.
Universities had already shown 바카라사이트mselves “very active in thinking about new modes of cooperation” and in developing individual “profiles”, he added, while constitutional factors meant that 바카라사이트 specific issue of pharmacy payments was still under discussion.
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