It is difficult to understand how the reform supports the government's education and employment goals.
Helsingin sanomat newspaper news (17.4.) the so-called one-place rule coming to higher education, as a result of which a higher education student could not have two study places of the same level valid at the same time. Minister of Science and Culture Sari Multala (kok), the aim of the law reform is to raise the level of higher education in Finland and to reduce the accumulation of higher education for the same persons. I see many contradictions in the government's goals and implementation.
In the first place the idea that the rule would free up study places for first-timers is unbelievable. Those who dream of an exchange of education hardly fail to apply because they lose their right to a previous degree. No place is freed up for anyone from a previous place of study, and for example, two years of studies are wasted due to a change of field, when the degree cannot be completed.
In addition, the changer is under pressure from the constant renewal of the university application process. Since 2019, the university certificate search and entrance exams have changed almost every year. Uncertainty about changes in entrance exams can speed up the decision to apply even when the entrance exam format is familiar.
Second degrees, which before the new rule could be completed in five years at best, now take up to ten years, as the course arrangements in many fields do not allow graduation faster than the target time. It is difficult to understand how the reform supports the government's education and employment goals.
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Students are under pressure from the constant renewal of the university application process.
Third you can now receive study support for a maximum of 54 support months. In the future, the second degree will be paid for by the student himself, whereas previously two degrees could be completed with the same study grant. In the future, therefore, training to become a multidisciplinary person will probably be done abroad, from wealthy backgrounds or paid by employers.
Wouldn't the solution to raising the education level be to increase study places, especially in fields with high application pressure? This would raise the level of education without trampling on those who have the ability and desire to study more than one degree. Hundreds of motivated students stand in line every year in areas with high application pressure, who are left without a place to study with the same or one point less than the last applicant who got in.
Study places addition, the permanence of the university application reform and the cancellation of the one-place rule would also remove unreasonable pressure from exhausted high school students to succeed correctly in their subject selections, matriculation essays and field selection at once.
According to Minister Multala, the one-place rule aims for a stress-free and easier change of industry. However, in my opinion, the reform does not meet its goals. Reforming the application process and branch change shouldn't be a problem in principle, but the changes should be well-founded, meet their goals and even be somewhat permanent.
Sannamari Knuutila
student of history
University of Tampere
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