JOIN USSaying hello to Finland
In order to provide foreign exposure to its students, Dayananda Sagar Institutions (DSI) has been organising many fests involving international universities.
The institution recently organised ‘Finland Fest’ with a lot of information on Finnish culture and education system.
‘Finland Fest’ was inaugurated at the DSI auditorium by the vice-chairman of DSI, Dr Premachandra Sagar. The first day of the fest saw the inauguration of a Finnish exhibition.
Delegates from various Finnish universities visited the DSI campus and informed the students about the country’s culture and education system. These partnerships with Finnish universities aim to provide a window of opportunities to the staff and students of DSI.
Marina Wikman, a senior lecturer of Satakunta University of Applied Sciences, Finland, said that though she is not familiar with the Indian education system, she feels that DSI provides quality education to students.
“I have lectured the students and realised that they are provided with good education. I noticed that they showed a keen interest during the lecture too,” said Marina.
Talking about the differences in the education system of both the countries, Marina said Finnish students can file their assignments online as compared to the manual work done by Indian students. She also observed that the duration of each lecture here is more than those in Finland.
“Even the number of students in each class in India is more. In Finland, the class has 30 students at the most,” informed Marina. However, she feels that the youngsters are the same everywhere in the world when it comes to their ambitions and goals.
Speaking about the fest, R Janardhan, the vice-president of DSI, said, “Finland is known for its qualified teachers and professors. It is not easy to pursue the profession of teaching there. One has to go through a lot of training to become a teacher. So that itself implies that Finnish education would be of high quality.
Also the student exchange programme will give international exposure to the students as well as the faculty of DSI. It will help in building their overall personality.”
Rithika Soman, a first-year student of architecture at DSI, said the ‘Finland Fest’ helped her learn more about the country and its culture. Poulomi Nair, another student, said, “It sounds interesting as the college management is planning for a student exchange programme.”