DOCUMENT RESUME ED 461 347 HE 034 628 AUTHOR Valimaa, Jussi, Ed. TITLE Finnish Higher Education in Transition: Perspectives on Massification and Globalisation. INSTITUTION Jyvaskyla Univ. (Finland). Inst. for Educational Research. ISBN ISBN-951-39-1133-0 PUB DATE 2001-00-00 NOTE 226p. AVAILABLE FROM Institute for Educational Research, Customer Services, University of Jyvaskyla, P.O. Box 35, FIN-40351 Jyvaskyla, Finland (23.55 Euro) . Tel: +358 14 260 3220; Fax: +358 14 260 3241; e-mail: terttu.airama@ktl.jyu.fi; Web site: http://www.jyu.fi/kt1/. PUB TYPE Books (010) Collected Works General (020) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC10 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Educational Change; *Educational Trends; Foreign Countries; *Higher Education IDENTIFIERS Finland; Globalization ABSTRACT This book discusseS recent changes in Finnish higher education, pinpointing the changes and analyzing what they mean. The chapters are: (1) "GeoPolitical and Cultural Coordinates for Finnish History" (Jussi Valimaa); (2) "A Historical Introduction to Finnish Higher Education" (Jussi Valimaa); (3) "Analysing Massification and Globalisation" (Jussi Valimaa); (4) "Reflections on the Modern Mass University and the Question of the Autonomy of Thinking" (Eeva Kallio); (5) "Going to School at University?" (Sanna Honkimaki); (6) "Academic Life and the Pressure of Massification" (Helena Aittola) ; (7) "Doctoral Studies in the 1990s: From Elite to Mass Training?" (Pentii Maatta); (8) "The Open University in a Massifying Higher Education System" (Ellen Piesanen); (9) "Strategic Flow and Finnish Universities" (Jussi Valimaa and Hannu Jalkanen) ; and (10) "Discussion: Finnish Higher Education Faces Massification and Globalisation" (Valimaa, Aittola, Honkimaki, Jalkanen, Kallio, Maatta, and Piesanen) . A Finnish Summary is also included. (EV) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be mOe from the ori inal document.