Nokia's impact on education in Finland

Nokia's Impact On Education In Finland

The impact that Nokia has made on Finland is a large one (Lewis, 2004). Since it is a company that was created there and did not move in from somewhere else, there is a pride that comes with working there for a lot of people. Even people who do not work there have a lot of pride because Nokia is so large and comes from their country to sell a lot of high-quality electronics and technology to the rest of the world. Right now, around twenty-five percent of the exports from Finland are Nokia products and forty percent of the total worth of public companies in that country is made up of Nokia stock (Maney, 2004).

Advantages

The role that Nokia plays in education in Finland is equally large, since the company is such a strong one and capable of doing so much for the area, and that's a big advantage that Finland would otherwise not have (Lewis, 2004). When large companies work to help the community they are able to do a lot of good because they have so much money to offer and people who can do good works. it's a valuable thing to have a big company working in a country, and Nokia and Finland 'belong' to one another in that Nokia is a Finnish company, not one that moved into Finland from another country and essentially took over.

Another advantage for Finland's education system where Nokia is concerned is that a lot of people work very hard in school and do very well at their studies so that they are able to work at Nokia when they graduate. These people see the value of working hard and earning the qualifications that they will need in order to get hired by Nokia (Lewis, 2004). Naturally, people in any country want to have good jobs where they can be fulfilled and where they can make money, and as the largest technology company in Finland, Nokia offers that to anyone who has the skills and ability to work there.

Disadvantages

There are, however, disadvantages to having Nokia as such a large, driving force in that country, and those disadvantages are seen in education as well as in other areas. First of all, there is a shortage of qualified workers there even though the education system is one of the strongest in the world because a lot of people get their education and leave (Maney, 2004). Much of Finland is cold and desolate, and a lot of people do not want to remain there for the rest of their lives. They get their top-quality education and then they go to another country to work, and Nokia loses out because the talented and qualified people are going somewhere else (Maney, 2004). It is unfortunate, but it is not surprising, and most of them are trained to work at a company like Nokia. When these people do move somewhere else all that they often know how to do is work with technology, and it can make it difficult for them to get any other kind of job in another country (Lewis, 2004).