University education in a bilingual country: the case of Finland.

Autor/in	Anckar, Olle
Titel	University education in a bilingual country: the case of Finland.
Quelle	In: Higher education in Europe, 25 (2000) 4, S. 499-506Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen 4
Sprache	englisch; englische Zusammenfassung
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0379-7724
Schlagwörter	Einsprachigkeit; Mehrsprachigkeit; Englisch; Bilingualismus; Finnisch; Schwedisch; Hochschulverwaltung; Hochschule; Minderheit; Finnland
Abstract	Focussing on the situation of Abo Akademi University, a Swedish- language higher education institution in bilingual Finland, this article discusses the problems of operating higher education institutions in two or three languages in a country in which 11 percent of the population are Swedish speakers and 89 percent are Finnish speakers, with many who are bilingual. Finland has two monolingual Swedish-language universities plus a monolingual School attached to the bilingual University of Helsinki. In addition to the latter, five other institutions, four of them highly specialized, are bilingual. The remaining institutions are monolingual, operating in Finnish. Most of the Finnish higher education institutions in Turku, where Abo Akademi University is located, co-operate in offering joint programmes requiring students to work in Swedish, Finnish, and English. Although multilingualism works well in Finland with a minimum of friction, the author concludes that a monolingual university, if affordable, is the best safeguard for minority linguistic rights. (DIPF/Orig.)
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2003_(CD)