Finnish education system

The Challenges of ICT in Finnish education

Organising Federated Identity in Finnish Higher Education

Finnish higher education has been an early adopter of federated identity in Europe. The Finnish Haka federation is deploying Shibboleth, federating software by Internet2. This paper describes the federation as an organisational entity and explains how privacy issues are taken into account in its policy. Differences between the Haka federation and some other federations are pointed out. The main...

Outdoor education in Finnish schools and universities

Background Due to the electronic media the amount of time that children spend in nature has declined in the recent time. However, it is important for children to learn about nature and it is also healthy for children to spend time in nature (Kuo, 2010). An empathic relation to nature (Palmberg & Kuru, 1998), nature sensitivity (Nykänen & Kinnunen, 1992), environmental awareness, attitudes, and ...

Sickness absence among Finnish special and general education teachers.

BACKGROUND Although teaching is considered a high-stress profession, research on stress-related outcomes among teachers, such as absence from work due to illness (i.e. sickness absence), remains scarce. It is possible that teachers are not a homogeneous group but include subgroups with particularly high risk of sickness absence, such as special education teachers. AIMS To examine differences ...

FEIDHE (a project) / Electronic Identification in Finnish Higher Education

In Finnish universities and polytechnics students and staff members have access to several information systems and services requiring user authentication. Traditionally authentication is based on username-passwords pairs. In the information systems the passwords or alternatively, some one-way hash values deriving from them are stored in a user database. When the user is to be authenticated to t...