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counter-intuitive business sense
you'd think that since finland is the last country in the eu with free higher education, even for exchange students and foreign students, they would want to keep it relatively quiet, or even discourage people from coming, wouldn't you? i figured that was why it was so low-publicity, when i was going through the application process. which is admittedly a drag. i understand it may not remain free, that it's come up for discussion, but there hasn't been much noise about it so it can't be anytime soon. and meanwhile it turned out i was wrong.
my university is in the strange position of looking for new ways to advertise itself internationally, even though more students in theory should just stretch its somewhat limited resources. (thinking about the university as run on a somewhat iffy budget and public funds helps to understand the differences which make it hard to deal with in certain ways.) in fact, their advertising is so limp and ineffective that i didn't realise they were at all until, well, today. it makes sense now, since a few weeks ago a family friend enlightened me that their funding is a function of the number of students they graduate. they are not an organ of the government, meanwhile, but a private university - so they have every reason to want more international students (and to make it more efficient and easy for people to graduate, but let's not get too hasty) and none in particular to discourage them.
my university is in the strange position of looking for new ways to advertise itself internationally, even though more students in theory should just stretch its somewhat limited resources. (thinking about the university as run on a somewhat iffy budget and public funds helps to understand the differences which make it hard to deal with in certain ways.) in fact, their advertising is so limp and ineffective that i didn't realise they were at all until, well, today. it makes sense now, since a few weeks ago a family friend enlightened me that their funding is a function of the number of students they graduate. they are not an organ of the government, meanwhile, but a private university - so they have every reason to want more international students (and to make it more efficient and easy for people to graduate, but let's not get too hasty) and none in particular to discourage them.