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Opinion

How does wider-spread adoption of English benefit Helsinki?

Mikko Hurskainen 5/24/21

Sports

FOOTBALL

Super League to 'reshape the project' after English clubs withdraw

The Nomad Today/dpa 4/21/21

Despite the mass departure of the English clubs, the Super League remained defiant in its aims to propose a new European competition.

Finland

EDUCATION

English most studied language in upper secondary level education

The Nomad Today 11/26/20

After English, Swedish appears in second position among the most studied languages.

Finland

Growing proportion of students learning English at school

The Nomad Today 5/20/20

Starting from the beginning of 2020 all pupils start studying their first foreign language or a second national language at the latest in the spring of the first grade.

Coronavirus

Covid-19 information sent to households only in Finnish and Swedish

The Nomad Today 4/3/20

The Ministry of Health says they intend to deliver reliable information also to "those in Finland who do not search online or follow news broadcasts." But a few lines below, people of…

Finland

English should be Finland's third official language, say Foreigner.fi readers

The Nomad Today 3/2/20

Foreigner.fi will ask a different question about Finland and Finnish lifestyle every Friday on its official Twitter account @foreignerfi

Finland

Foreign job seekers disappointed

Government's English jobs website advertises vacancies that require Finnish language

The Nomad Today 1/26/20

'Jobs in Finland' was enthusiastically received by international job seekers, who rushed to search for vacancies on its pages. However, the enthusiasm cooled soon when they learned that some of the…

Finland

Government launched a website to advertise English job offers

The Nomad Today 1/21/20

Jobs in Finland is the first online platform that presents a summary of vacancies that do not require to speak Finnish. Job seekers can filter vacancies geographically and by industry…

Finland

Nearly all Finnish high school students learn English

The Nomad Today 12/18/19

Of students in upper secondary education, 61% studied two languages and 38% studied three or more languages.

Finland

Should Finnish universities teach in English?

Gerrit Bruno Blöss 12/13/19

English is the most widely spoken second language in the world, and plays a vital role in academia. But its use especially in higher education is a highly contested issue. Why is that? And can there…

Finland

English, the foreign language most learned in Finnish schools

The Nomad Today 5/23/19

Almost all students in grades 7 to 9 study English, while 74% of children in grades 1 to 6 learn English.