Unjust university policy

In Finland the newly-opened Aalto University, a merger between three universities located in the Finnish capital area to form an elite university, is to receive 56 million euros in government funding. Meanwhile the country's remaining universities have been left with only around 17 million euros to be divided among themselves. The daily Kaleva criticises this distribution of state funds: "Among those universities ranked as belonging to the world's best are four provincial universities in addition to the University of Helsinki [ranked 72nd]. … The Helsinki University of Technology [part of the new Aalto University] is completely missing from the ranking. One would expect national policy to promote those scientific institutions which have already proven their ability to hold their own in an international comparison. But the practice in Finland is very different. … It will be many years before the performance of Aalto University can be assessed, but in the meantime other universities will suffer from a lack of resources."

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