I realized after I got in bed last night that I did not provide a post on what happened on Friday. I hope you're not too broken up about it. ;)
On Friday, we took a 15 minute walk to the University of Tampere (1925) campus. The university buildings were located all around the city, but recently (I don't know when exactly), they moved to one campus; minus the School of Medicine (they always have to be difficult ;) ). The main focus of Tampere is Social Sciences. In 2011, they did a complete overhaul of their organization and removed quite a bit of their disciplines/majors and departments. Now, there are nine schools of study and 25 specialities. The enrollment is approximately 15,000.
In the afternoon we met with Seppo Holtta, professor in the Higher Education Group (HEG), and several doctoral students and university lecturers (assistant professors). Seppo provided us with his candid view of the changes to the university and how these changes affect the HED speciality. Very enlightening. A unique program HEG offers is a non-degree program in higher education administration. This is meant for those practitioners in the field who haven't actually studied higher education but they don't want another masters program. A masters degree is 120 ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) and the non-degree program is only 40 ECTS. It is very successful; many members of the Ministry of Education have participated.
After meeting with HEG, the group returned to the hotel for some relaxation and met up at 6pm for dinner. We attempted to eat Jack the Rooster, but it was packed. Instead, we tried an Italian restaurant on the water. It was very nice. I'll have to remember the pizza I had and compare it to pizza in Italy. ;) We then had ice cream from the K Market (grocery store) before enjoying a relaxing evening. This marks day 7 in Finland!
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