Continuous contact with society and working life is critical to ensure relevance in the educational programmes, and the establishment and maintenance of such contact is based on academic assessment. Examples of such contact are the targeted use of lecturers from social and working life, internships for students in working life, work experience, subjects specific to a certain profession, and by establishing collaboration with working life when working on Bachelor’s and Master’s theses. Regardless of the form of this contact, all study programmes must ensure that they have appropriate forums for interacting with working life. This may take the form of programme committees with external representatives, working life panels, work experience meetings, etc.
Relevance
One of these dimensions involves relevance – in other words, that we offer studies that are in demand in modern-day society and in the future, and that our study programmes are designed in such a way that the student gains the learning outcomes that are important for future participation in working life.