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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This would n'er happen to a government-run college

[mi]

University of Helsinki will reduce staff by 980 people, with 570 being laid off by the end of 2017

This would never happen to an institution owned by the benevolent government of a nice, progressive country with constitutional protections for earning a living wage. Oh, wait...

Re:Refugees

[roman_mir]

Actually I think Europe should load all of those refugees onto barges and bring them to the USA because it is America that created this entire mess starting looong loooong time ago, at the very least in 1953 when it deposed a democratically elected president in Iran and replaced him with a fucking religious king.

Then it was Afghanistan and a bunch of other situations where USA meddled with the world by feeding snakes that eventually always got out of control.

Christ, the things that get modded up on /...

[rsilvergun]

This is just a response to low oil prices. Finland sells a lot of oil. The correct response would be to borrow until the price of oil went back up (which baring a miracle it will when the Saudis give up trying to kill US Shale) then pay down the debt with the oil profits. But can't dip into those sweet, sweet profits just to keep the general public's standard of living up now can we?