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Introduction and aim: Cultural differences have significant impacts on classroom behaviours and communication in teaching. The aim of this study is to explore social and healthcare educators' cultural competence in transcultural education. Methodology: Data was collected from semi-structured focus group interviews at universities of applied sciences and vocational colleges. Inductive content analysis was used in the analysis process. Results: Educators' cultural competence in transcultural education emerges as generic categories: transcultural education, educatorship and ethical attitudes, and underpins by the sub-categories: language and linguistics, different learning styles, integrating multicultural students, cultural knowledge and sensitivity, collaborating and cooperating, self-awareness and openness, and respecting and caring. Conclusion: Cultural competence represents a core competence for social-and health care educators. Educators need to know students' background, master different learning styles, be flexible in their pedagogical approaches and have an open and ethical attitude. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In her introduction to Gender and Party Politics, the political scientist Joni Lovenduski tells us that women's increased interest in party politics in the 1980s caused pressures for change within the parties anal shaped their programmes. The result of women's action was that "gender became an explicit issue for many political parties".1 As an historian, I would prefer to say that "gender once again became an issue for political parties". This is certainly true of the organized working-class parties of the turn of the century. In one way or another they had to resolve their own "women's question" and take a stand on the issue of the rights of women and working-class men to vote anal stand as candidates in elections. It is not my intention here to examine the processes of change that took place at the turn of the century or over the past few decades, which have been fairly well researched already, but rather to consider a question that has attracted less attention: the position of women in the political parties during the intervening decades, from the 1920s to the 1950s. I shall take a look at the factors determining the relationship between the Finnish Social Democratic Party and its women's organization and assess the significance for the role of women within the party of the organization's reassessment of its policy programme in the 1920s. Although my case study focuses on the situation in Finland, I would think that similar processes could also be found in the working-class parties of other countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reports on plans of Turku, Finland-based developers of drug, BioTie Therapies to raise funds on the Helsinki Stock Exchange for development-stage biotechnology companies. Amount to be raised by BioTie; Purpose of providing financial support to biotechnology companies.