University of Helsinki To Lay Off a Thousand People (yle.fi)

jones_supa writes: University of Helsinki, the place where Linus Torvalds got his degree as well, will reduce staff by 980 people, with 570 being laid off by the end of 2017. In addition, the university will reorganize and incorporate certain divisions including continuing education. Professors, teachers and researchers are criticizing the cuts, which coincide with the university's administrative and educational overhaul. The staff cuts reflect the government's drastic funding cuts to education, which plays one part in the effort of trying to help the difficult economic situation of today's Finland. The university estimates that of the 980 positions, terminations during this coming spring will account for 570 positions. Of the employees to be made redundant, 75 are teaching and research staff and 495 other staff. The rest of the cuts will be spread over the coming years.

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Re:Citizens come last

[PopeRatzo]

[sputniknews.com]

Who's that?

Sputnik is an international multimedia service launched on 10 November 2014 by Rossiya Segodnya, an agency wholly owned and operated by the Russian government, which was created by a Decree of the President of Russia on December 9, 2013.[2] Sputnik replaces the RIA Novosti news agency on an international stage (which remains active in Russia)[3] and Voice of Russia. According to its chief Dmitry Kiselyov Sputnik intends to counter the "aggressive propaganda that is now being fed to the world".[4]

So, Vladimir Putin, who's used ultra-nationalist sentiment to stir up shit in other former Soviet satellite nations in order to give cover to an invasion, has his personal news agency telling us how much trouble Finland is in because of "refugees".

Damn, there's nothing new under the sun, is there? Next we'll be hearing how the Jews are defiling the morals of women in towns all across Belarus.

Re:Refugees

[Anonymous Coward]

How convenient an argument is this?
Talk about callus excuses.
Do you feel totally absolved of all responsibility yet?
Did you tie yellow ribbons?
Did you get a vengeance hard on for 9-11?
Think about what our world would be like right now if we spent all this money on education and infrastructure.
We have been feeding weapons into the middle east for years as an extension of the cold war and the more we put in the more flood in from other countries.
"It was Ok to go to war in the first place, it was OK to play out our conflicts in other countries, and the only problem was we didn't war enough."
Same old shit, we pay through the nose to kill people we don't know for little or no gain.
War is not an investment, and your style of thinking and continued support of war mongers makes you responsible for the deaths of men, women, and children.
You can dress it up anyway you like.
If it was up to me I would move you there and see how glib you are.