In management, people make decisions that have far-reaching consequences to the life of individuals, communities, and organisations. A five-step typology shows the developmental state of organisational management, writes Professor Anna-Maija…
At primary schools, the increasing gap between the best achieving and the poorest performing pupils equals already to several school years in basic education. To break the trend, there is…
As people spend much of their lives indoors there is a clear need to maintain a healthy indoor environment. In addition to ourselves, pets and plants, the buildings we live…
Top sprinter Joni Mäki already knows what the Olympic uphill stages in Beijing feel like. Joni Mäki is skiing the 3.3 km trail of the upcoming Winter Olympics. Physically, this…
Still as a freshman, Teemu Ruotsalainen planned for a career in language teaching. Now, however, he is Head of Global Documentation in the product development department of an international technology…
Peer support and interaction are of great importance to an organisation at the face of big changes. For this very reason, the small stock exchanges of Helsinki and Stockholm became…
Positive experiences in early childhood are connected with wisdom in older age. According to Senior Researcher Eeva Kallio, the guidance and counselling students receive at university provide plenty of opportunities…
Decades-long work on physical endurance is now yielding results. Good physical endurance protects against vascular diseases and speeds up learning. An explanation for clearer cognition may be found, for example,…
“We are outdoor people and being outdoors is good for people,” say Sonja Ikonen and Henna Törmänen, who became friends as social sciences of sport students in 2006. Interest in…
In our contemporary daily life, we should be able to use and review not only verbal texts, but also visual and audio materials– let alone numeric and kinaesthetic symbol systems.…
