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Helsinnki university to downsize by 1000 staff

Accepted submission by Anonymous Coward at 2016-01-28 14:32:38
Career & Education
University of Helsinki staff will be reduced [yle.fi] by about 1000 people by the end of 2017. It's where Linus Torvalds [wikipedia.org] was when he started on Linux. Since 2009, the Finnish universities have been private corporations [minedu.fi] which operate as publicly traded companies [finlex.fi] (see PDFs). The Minister of Education and Culture is on record as saying, "We could have even fewer universities than we now do [yle.fi]", so more cuts there or elsewhere are likely to come.

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