How open is Finnish higher education?

By Lehtikuva / Heikki Saukkomaa. I had been sufficiently impressed by the work of some Finnish geographers, though I knew little about the Nordic country's higher education system before I accepted the position of postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki in December 2007.
I had been bent on visiting Finland for as long as I can remember. The country, its people and their culture intrigued me. Before 2008 the closest I had been to Finland was reading a school geography atlas. More...