Miten ammattikorkeakoulujen strategiarahoitus kohdentuu?

Abstract

Tässä artikkelissa tarkastellaan suomenkielisten ammattikorkeakoulujen strategiarahoituksen määrää, rahoituksen kohdentamista sekä rahoitusta suhteessa ammattikorkeakoulun opiskelijamäärään. Tarkastelu kohdentuu erityisesti strategiarahan kohdentamiseen suhteessa opintojen ja työn integrointiin sekä työelämään kiinnittymisen edistämiseen ammattikorkeakouluissa.

This article examines the allocation of innovation-/profile-oriented funding in relation to employability indicators and student’s integration to the labour market in the universities of applied sciences in Finland

The research data consists of information gathered from the Vipunen -database of educational administration and the open access strategy contracts between universities of applied sciences and the Ministry of Education and Culture for the contract period of 2017-2020.

Funding had been allocated to work-life collaboration in the following UAS’s: Haaga-Helia UAS, Laurea UAS, Oulu UAS and Satakunta UAS. Cooperation with commercial and industrial life had been appointed as the focus of activities in the UAS’s of Lappi and Satakunta. Metropolia UAS allocates it’s strategy funding to higher education and employability of immigrants. Entrepreneurship was selected as a focal point of strategy funding in Haaga-Helia UAS, Laurea UAS, Oulu UAS, Saimaa UAS, Satakunta UAS and Seinäjoki UAS.

The study revealed that most of the funding was allocated to the following five themes: improvement of admission procedures, structural and strategic alliances, entrepreneurship, organizational development of campuses and internationalization. In proportion to the number or students in the UAS’s the government allocated strategy funds were not distributed evenly. Haaga-Helia UAS got the least (710 euros/ student) and Lahti UAS got the most (1516 euros/student). Strategy funding is a strong governmental steering devise. In the contract period of 2017-2020 entrepreneurship, internationality and regional development were strongly featured in most UAS-OKM contracts. One way of viewing the strategy funding of UAS’s is to see it as a way of carrying out working life pedagogics.