Ylioppilaslehti 6/2007
Five questions on doctoral studies
Over 1 400 doctors graduate every year in Finland. Only every third of them can find work as a researcher — according to a ministery of education study 70 percent of them would want to.
Often doctors end up working in same professions as masters, or totally outside their own field like Pasi Haansuu, 39. Doctor of Sciences, he is now working as a gardener.
Education policy in Finland seems to be still based on an idea that more doctors mean more new innovations and finally more wealth for the nation. Is it really so and is studying years to be a doctor really worth it? Ylioppilaslehti poses five questions for students who consider applying for a postgraduate status.
The Doorkeeper
In the beginning of April Annika Forsander starts as Helsinki’s first Chief of Immigration Affairs. The international work as a researcher gives way to working as a civil servant in a huge organization employing 38 000 workers, only two percent of them immigrants. One of Forsander’s new challenges is to think how to make the figure araise.
A Serious case of Plagiarism in the Faculty of Humanities
A student of the Faculty of Humanities has presented a paper bought from the internet as his thesis. The most reasent as serious case of plagiarism took place in Helsinki university almost 10 years ago.
University does not keep track of plagiarism cases. Still, according to university’s deans this kind of serious plagiarism is very rare. At the same time, cases moving on the gray area are becoming more common.