Further education in the universities

present situation and future prospects

• Riitta Väisänen opetusministeriö

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33336/aik.96554

Abstract

During the past few years further education has been the most rapidly expanding area within the universities in Finland. All the universities in the country offer rich and varied programs in further education. The specific goals and areas of emphasis of this type of education vary from university to university. Some universities choose to stress their own fields of specialty as part of a national program of further training, others prefer to meet regional further training needs. in most cases these goals are united.
Further education in the universities consists of further vocational education courses and programs, employment training, and open university instruction. Also included are rapidly expanding entrepreneurial services that are organized mainly on a regional-political basis. Further education centers in university communities and their branches in many other localities form a university-level further education network that covers the entire country.