Insights on education

Hello! We are four Master's students of Educational Leadership at Tampere University of Applied Sciences. Our names are Mia, Elina, Henna and Beatriz and we are curious about education. We created this blog to dig deeper into well-being and funding in education. Welcome on board!

Recent posts

  • Towards a Holistic and Sustainable View of Teacher Well-Being

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    Teacher well-being is a trendy topic, and it deserves more attention in educational discussions as a part of the holistic approach. We focus too often on individual solutions like stress management or mindfulness, but do they really solve the problems if we only focus on them? Looking at factors related to the work community and organization may bring valuable perspectives to achieve better results also in the educational sector (Toivanen & Yli-Kaitala, 2025). Student well-being is already quite well addressed. It is important to understand this well-being trend from the perspective of teachers’ work as well. Horizon Report 2020  (Brown et al., 2020) and Innovating Pedagogy 2022  (Kukulska-Hulme et al., 2022) indicate that student well-being is highly understood at the core of education. But can we also look at it the other way around? How does teacher well-being influence student success? Literature (e.g. Sha Mo, 2024, Maricuțoiu et al., 2022, AISACT, n.d., Create, n.d.) shows that when teachers thrive in their roles, students benefit—academically, emotionally, and socially.

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  • Podcast: Trends on teacher wellbeing and education as business

    Listen to our podcast on these two trends in Higher Education

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  • The purpose of Education: learning or earning? 

    Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

    How will the future of higher education look like in countries such as Finland or Spain? Since the launch of the Bologna process, one of Europe’s key goals has been making higher education competitive worldwide. According to EHESS (European Commission, n.d.), this competitiveness can be measured in terms of two dimensions: a country’s global role in education, and its performance in research and innovation. 

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