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Why is it important?

Higher education should provide competences which are needed in working life. Working life is not just taking test (memory) and writing esseys, rather it is complex problem-solving together with experts.

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For this article, I had a great opportunity to explore challenges and conditions in working life in different fields. Deep discussions with leading experts opened my eyes as a leader of the master's degree programme to more intensively prepare my students to become competent for their future positions.

Pirkko Siklander
University of Oulu

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This page is a summary of: Common features of expertise in working life: implications for higher education, Journal of Further and Higher Education, July 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/0309877x.2018.1471126.
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