How to Increase Girls' Interest in Science and Technology: experiences from the Nordic BRYT Project in Finland

The Nordic BRYT-project was intended to develop various ways and means to broaden the understanding of the choices available in education for women, especially in those fields where female students are in the minority, such as engineering and industrial vocational education. The article describes the experiments with students and teachers in the schools of a Finnish town, Vammala. The conclusions drawn from opinions resenting these experiments are especially informative and illuminating.     

Finnish Higher Education Policy and the Ongoing Bologna Process

|spagf|it|epagf|The Bologna train is running at full speed. The next stop at ministerial level is the Berlin follow-up meeting to be held on 18-19 September 2003. This article is an attempt to investigate the background to the Bologna Process, which, with all the haste, has remained rather obscure. It examines how the educational policy of the EEC/EU has reached a stage at which one can speak of a European Higher Education Area with reference to the concepts of harmonization and the Bologna Process. It will also examine possible future scenarios, focusing particularly on the Finnish situation. Why has Finland been so keen to embark on reforms? What does Finnish higher education policy aim to achieve through the Bologna Process, and what does it stand to gain from it?|spagf|ro|epagf|