Anu Lyytinen

• Doctor of Administrative Sciences
• Project Manager at University of Turku

Tässä arviointiraportissa tarkastellaan, ovatko strategiselle tutkimukselle (Strategisen tutkimusneuvoston rahoittama) asetetut tavoitteet toteutuneet. Arviointi kattaa vuosien 2014–2020 välisen ajanjakson. Strateginen tutkimus on tuottanut uutta tutkimustietoa ja käytännöllisiä ratkaisuja, joita keskeiset sidosryhmät ovat voineet hyödyntää. Tutkim...

Artikkeli on osa Eurostudent VII -julkaisusarjaa. Artikkelissa tarkastellaan korkeakoulutuksen marginaaliryhmien – maahanmuuttajataustaisten, vammaisten ja mielenterveysongelmista kärsivien – opiskelemaan hakeutumista, opiskelukokemuksia sekä tulevaisuuden suunnitelmia. Artikkelin keskeisenä johtopäätöksenä on, että marginaaliryhmiin kuuluvien ja m...

The article is part of the Eurostudent VII series. The article examines the reasons why foreign students pursuing a degree apply for a student place in Finland and their interest in staying in Finland after graduation. This study also focuses on the placement of foreign graduates after graduation from the point of view of employment. The material i...

Tutkimuksessa selvitettiin korkeakoulutuksen sosiaalista, alueellista, kielellistä ja sukupuolten tasa-arvoa ja saavutettavuutta Suomessa, ja verrattiin sitä muihin OECD- ja EU-maihin. Lisäksi tarkasteltiin verrokkimaiden – Ruotsin, Irlannin ja Englannin – tasa-arvon edistämisessä hyödynnettyjä politiikkoja ja toimenpiteitä, sekä pohdittiin niiden...

Universities are public organisations, which operate in a highly institutionalised environment. They are heavily dependent on public resources. As such, universities are susceptible to shifts in governance arrangements but are also far from being passive recipients of reform agendas. They face demands from multiple internal constituencies (academic...

This chapter provides a brief description of how the four national systems included in this study—Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden—are currently organised and structured. In doing so, it illuminates several specific features such as the types and sizes of the institutions, enrolment patterns, performance measures, and funding. In addition, the...

The need for greater efficiency, productivity and quality in the higher education sector has triggered increased governmental interest towards different mechanisms of accountability, especially evaluation and performance measurement. This interest has developed over a relatively long period of time, but it has now reached its culmination point in m...

This study examined occupational teacher training offered at universities of applied sciences. Two key questions guided the analysis: 1) What kind of structures do the units offering teacher training use to organise their functions, and how are the positions held by senior teachers, lecturers and other staff defined? 2) What kind of research, devel...

The book focuses on I Methodological Approaches II Conceptual Approaches III Scholarly Traditions Applied to understand universities

Despite the widespread use of performance-based management in higher education, empirical research on its actual impact has remained scarce, particularly in Europe. With agency theory as a framework, our study utilised survey data collected from Finnish universities in order to explore the influence of performance management on perceived teaching a...

Although the role and significance of the external stakeholders of higher education institutions has grown in recent years, quality assurance of stakeholder relationships remains a new phenomenon in the management practices of higher education institutions and in higher education research. Based on interviews and expert panel data, this article ana...

ABSTRACT Management is one of the most studied phenomena in higher education. Most of these studies are conducted in the framework of higher education policy, academic work and quality of education and research. The management is often seen as an independent variable explaining the changes in higher education in the context of New Public Management...

The study analysed the profiles and publishing productivity of teachers and researchers with foreign backgrounds in comparison with native Finnish teaching and research staff, between 2012 and 2014. Statistics compiled from the Vipunen statistics service provided by the Finnish National Board of Education, as well as publication and staff informati...

This paper intends to learn from international experiences in order to facilitating China’s ongoing regional university transformation with an ultimate goal to enhance the role of university in regional economic development and innovation. In so doing, this paper compares major models of universities of applied sciences (UAS) around the world from...

China has recently launched a radical reform to transform over 600 regional universities into application and technology oriented institutions. The reform is a response to diverse labour market demands, regional economic development and the suboptimal structure of the higher education system, and uses international experiences as a reference. While...

The study was conducted as a response to needs for information on stakeholder cooperation at higher education institutions and the related quality management efforts. The aims of the study were divided into three subcategories: I Establishing how stakeholders and stakeholder cooperation of higher education institutions can be defined at a conceptu...

Este trabalho apresenta uma análise do desenvolvimento recente de uma parte do ensino superior na Finlândia. Seu objetivo é analisar como as politécnicas finlandesas reagiram às novas exigências para que se tornassem responsivas às necessidades regionais e como elas construíram as competências necessárias para esse engajamento regional. O quadro de...

Drawing upon the notions of academic capitalism and the transformation of academic research from traditional academic orientation into market orientation, the paper sets out to empirically scrutinize the changing nature of academic research, focusing especially on disciplinary differences. The paper is based on a survey of heads of departments and...

This paper presents an analysis of the recent development of a part of the higher education in Finland. Its objective is to analyse how Finnish polytechnic school reacted to the new requirements to become responsive to regional needs and how they build up the necessary abilities to this regional engagement. The central theoretical framework are the...

Polytechnics are newcomers in companies' regional innovation environments in Finland. Particularly in regions with no university of their own or with only few knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) providers, they may become, and in some cases already are, important providers of science-and-technology-related services. The aim of this article...

Incl. bibl., abstract. This paper discusses some current problems and challenges of the Finnish AMKs (polytechnic institutions), and whether financial autonomy could contribute to finding solutions for some of these problems. It provides an overview of the current status of financial autonomy of polytechnics in 6 European countries, and finally att...

This paper discusses some current problems and challenges of the Finnish AMKs (polytechnic institutions), and whether financial autonomy could contribute to finding solutions for some of these problems. It provides an overview of the current status of financial autonomy of polytechnics in 6 European countries, and finally attempts to find links fro...