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July 2014

Money changes everything

Problems with incentive stipends There have been several issues with obtaining the incentive stipends. For example, the stipend for completing the 40 credits in 18 months has been rejected because it took one day too long to get the last course, and the first-publication stipend has been rejected because the …

Union Gate

Labor unions TEK and SEFE which represents Engineers, Architects and Economists have released their higher education policy papers. Both unions would iniate tuition fees in Finland for students outside EU/ETA countries and TEK would go even further with tuition fees for all nationalities, even for Finnish students. TEK has lame …

A! broke? or “broke”

Recently planned layoffs have raised a question of Aalto’s financial state. Aalto has done about 30M€ profit each year since founding, but …

Doctoral Candidates Gone Wild

The after work events organized by Aallonhuiput and Tsemppi PhD students from Helsinki University are something that no PhD student should miss. …