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Jauhiainen, Arto; Jauhiainen, Annukka; Laiho, Anne; Lehto, Reeta – Higher Education Policy, 2015
This article explores how the university workers of two Finnish universities experienced the range of neoliberal policymaking and governance reforms implemented in the 2000s. These reforms include quality assurance, system of defined annual working hours, outcome-based salary system and work time allocation system. Our point of view regarding…
Descriptors: Governance, Higher Education, Neoliberalism, Educational Change
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Piironen, Ossi – Higher Education Policy, 2013
In 2009, the Finnish parliament passed a new Universities Act that aimed to strengthen the institutional autonomy of the country's universities. But why and how did the idea of autonomy come to frame the reform agenda in the overt way it did? In analysing a sample of authoritative policy and strategy papers by the key stakeholders in the higher…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, Foreign Countries, Universities, Educational Policy