The
holiday season started this week. Summer has officially started though
the weather has not been really summerlike. Schools are over
for now and pupils and students are either spending their holidays
vacating or
working in summer jobs. People might easily think that schools and
universities
are practically graveyards during summer. That is not true since all the
time
there is staff in universities who are working through out the summer
finishing
up the previous, and preparing for the upcoming semester.
Anyhow, Kuntokatu campus has been more quiet for some
weeks now because the students are gone, but it all changed this week when the
halls and classrooms were filled with thousands of hopeful applicants that took
part of the entrance exams for different degree programmes.
Next week, Kuntokatu campus will be again filled with
life. There will be an excited international atmosphere, when International
Services welcomes 27 guests from our partner universities all over Europe.
On Monday 11th of June starts the 4th annual
International Week for Non-Teaching Staff at TAMK! The following week consists
of lectures, workshops and sessions where everyone participating will have the
chance to exchange best practices with each other concerning their work in
their home universitites and institutions of higher education.
Preparations
for this week have been going on for months
now and we are ready to receive our visitors. The signs are on the
walls, the
classroom is ready, the topics and presentations for Special Interest
Group
sessions have been finalized, and the staff’s mood is on international
mode. The weather has also noticed that our international guests are
slowly arriving since the sun has been shining during the last couple of
days. I
can’t wait for Monday finally to come!
Welcome everyone, we are waiting for you!
Text: Sanna Hosike & Noora Järventaus
Photos: Sanna Hosike
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