The core of the network comprised four units and research areas:
- Helsinki Center of Economic Research (HECER)
- Higher Education Governance and Management (HEGOM)
- Helsinki Institute of Science and Technology Studies (HIST)
- Centre for Research and Development of Higher Education (YTY)

Although the Network’s activity was both extensive and productive, the network has not added value as much as had been expected and multidisciplinary projects were not established to the extent anticipated. Therefore the HEINE network is to be disestablished on 31.12.2012 (University of Helsinki Rector’s decision 175/2012). The research areas involved in the network will continue their operations and co-operation within their own disciplinary areas.

The network’s administration and HEGOM will move to new premises in the Faculty of Social Sciences on 10.10.2012. The new address will be Unioninkatu 37 (P.O. Box 54). Telephone numbers will remain the same.

Further information: Professor Timo Aarrevaara (HEGOM), 050 415 5402, timo.aarrevaara@helsinki.fi

Professor Sergio Obeide, National University of Cordoba
University system public funding policy in Argentina since the 1990′s
Abstract (pdf)
Date: 3rd of October at 10-11.30
Venue: Porthania lecture hall 219 (Yliopistonkatu 3)
Further information: Professor Timo Aarrevaara, timo.aarrevaara(a)helsinki.fi

Professor Jeroen Huisman, University of Bath: 
Coming to terms with organisational diversity in higher education
Date: 15th of November at 10.30-12.00
Venue: Main building (old side), Auditorium XVI (Unioninkatu 34, 4th floor)

Professor Huisman is Director of International Centre for Higher Education Management (ICHEM) in University of Bath. He is an internationally well-known researcher of higher education governance and management. http://www.bath.ac.uk/management/faculty/jeroen_huisman.html

Further information: Research Director Turo Virtanen, turo.virtanen(a)helsinki.fi

The purpose of the meeting is to bring together researchers interested in economics of education to exchange ideas and promote co-operation. In particular, the organizers are hoping that the meeting helps to spread knowledge on data available for empirical research.

The program contains both invited and contributed papers. Invited speakers include Hessel Oosterbeek from University of Amsterdam, Mikael Lindahl from Uppsala University and Olmo Silva from LSE. We expect to have 10 – 12 presentations and plan to reserve 45 minutes for each paper. In the evening of August 15 a dinner will be organized at Hanasaari. Sauna and swimming pool (or the sea) are also available.

The organizers will cover the costs of accommodation and conference meals. Due to a limited budget, we can only commit to cover the travel costs for the invited speakers.

Submissions of papers for the meeting should be sent by May 25 to Kristian Koerselman (koerselman@economistatwork.com). The organizers will evaluate the papers and produce a list of papers approved for the program by June 1.

Welcome
Roope Uusitalo
Tuomas Pekkarinen
Kristian Koerselman

Unioninkatu 37, lecture hall

The English Universities are undergoing are a major Funding reform. From September 2012, universities in England will be able to raise tuition fees of up to £9,000 per year to replace major cuts to teaching budgets.

Teaching grant cuts of 6% for 2011-12 have already been implemented, with a further 18% reduction expected the following year. Cuts of 40% to the higher education budget over four years were announced in 2010.

The controversial university reform was developed as the government’s response to the so called Browne review of higher education funding. It was agreed by Parliament in December 2010, and sparked angry street protests.

In this seminar, leading British and Finnish experts discuss the facts and aims of the English university funding reform, its reception in the Academic community and its expected impact on English universities and higher education.

Programme

13.15 – 15.00 Lectures:

• William Locke, Head of Learning and Teaching, Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)
• Rosemary Deem, Professor, Royal Holloway, University of London

15.00 – 15.20 Coffee break

15.20 – 17.00 Comments and discussion:

• Seppo Hölttä, Professor, University of Tampere
• Terttu Luukkonen, Docent, Head of Unit, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA)

Please confirm your participation to heine-info@helsinki.fi by Thursday 24^th May.

The Lecturers:

Rosemary Deem is Professor of Higher Education Management at Royal Holloway. Her research interests focus on policy, leadership, governance and management of higher education and the changing purposes and roles of universities. In her latest research she is examining how austerity measures by western governments in response to the 2008 financial crisis in banking are affecting the values and organisational shape of public services.

William Locke is Head of Learning and Teaching at the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). He has undertaken research on a number of policy issues, including English higher education policy, institutional mergers, university rankings and the role of intermediary bodies in higher education. Between 2006 and 2010, he managed the UK part of the international study of the Changing Academic Profession. He co-edited Changing Governance and Management in Higher Education: The Perspectives of the Academy, published by Springer, which won the U.S. Comparative and International Education Society’s award for best higher education comparative book of 2011.

The commentators:

Seppo Hölttä is a Professor of Higher Education Administration and Finance at University of Tampere. In addition to research, Professor Hölttä has extensive practical experience on institutional management at three Finnish universities.

Terttu Luukkonen is a Head of Unit at the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA) and a Docent of Universities of Helsinki, Tampere and Oulu. She holds expertise in research and innovation policies in Europe.

Programme (pdf)

• Harry Collins:  “Interactional expertise: expert’s language and expert’s practice”

Lecture is open to all.

Seminar on 21.3. at 13-17, Siltavuorenpenger 10, seminar room 225

• Jonna Kangasoja: “Studing expertise as a historical and distributed phenomena: A friendly critique of Collins’s notion of interactional expertise”
• Paula Saikkonen: “Risk management as knowledge practice in the context of polluted soil”
• Auli Toom, Liisa Ilomäki, Minna Lakkala, Hanni Muukkonen: “Rethinking working life competencies – Defining the collaborative working practices”
• Pia  Vuolanto: “Boundary-work between practical and scientific knowledge: The textual construction of Finnish nursing science in the mid-1990s”

Harry Collins comments on presentations.

Collins is particularly interested in expertise and expert knowledge. What is expertise and how it is formed and what it is in practice?  He is best known as an expert of tacit knowledge.
Further introduction »»

Background material for the lecture:
Collins, Harry, 2011. `Language and Practice’ Social Studies of Science, 41, 2, 271-300.
Collins Harry and Evans Robert, (2007) Rethinking Expertise, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Collins, Harry, (2010), Tacit and Explicit Knowledge, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Further information:
Ilkka Arminen
ilkka.arminen(a)helsinki.fi
+358 50 4156835

The study program offers for the staff of the University of Helsinki and the Academy of Finland staff in an open public lecture on 26th Jan. 2012 at 13.15 to 14.45, a place at the University Main Building (Fabianinkatu 33), auditorio XII.

Barbara Kehm: What Is University Governance and Does It Matter?
Ulrich Teichler: Future Challenges Facing Europe?s Higher Education Systems in the 21st Century

More information: Timo Aarrevaara, 191 24967

Funding has been granted for the following projects:

• The changing academic profession: the impact of globalisation, diversification and institutional reorganisation on academic work and employment conditions (EUROAC-FIN)
  Project leader: Timo Aarrevaara
  - 30 000 €
• The emergence of non-academic staff and the para-academic profession in universities – a Finno-Nordic perspective
  Project leader: Ian Dobson
  - 20 000 €
• Transnational governance of higher education: ideas, policy instruments and institutional change
  Project leader: Tero Erkkilä
  - 27 000 €
• Educational choices and information on labor market prospects
  Project leader: Klaus Kultti
  - 45 000 €
• Building and using policy-relevant economic models – the case of time discounting
  Project leader: Uskali Mäki
  - 50 000 €
• What do course grades tell us about the quality of learning outcomes?
  Project leader: Liisa Postareff
  - 60 000 €
• Promoting working life competencies in university education
  Project leader: Auli Toom
  - 75 000 €
• Varieties of the third mission: mechanisms and institutions of university-society relationship in different disciplines
  Project leader: Juha Tuunainen
  - 55 000 €
• Encouraging faster graduation – the role of financial incentives
  Project leader: Roope Uusitalo
  - 38 000 €

Curtis Lebaron: Face-to-Face Leadership: A Multimodal Consideration of Bodies at Work.
Thu 6.10. at 10-12, Porthania, lecture room P673

Mie Femø Nielsen: Constructing Leadership in Business Meeting
Fri 7.10 at 10-12, Main building, lecture room 12

For further information please contact researcher Aku Kallio <aku.kallio@helsinki.fi>

Welcome!

Application instructions and a budget form are available on the website of HEINE network.