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Did you know... that Finnish linguist Eeva Leinonen was one of four women to be inaugurated as heads of Irish universities in 2021, the others being
Maggie Cusack,
Linda Doyle and
Kerstin Mey?
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Academic trail
So that's a run through a whole mix of modern unis:
(1958)
Unnamed school(s) in Oulu: -1976 or 1977
with short placement in Michigan, USA: 1975 ?
Aston University (1966 charter), Birmingham: 1977 - 1981
University of Exeter (1955 charter), Exeter, Devon: 1981 - 1984
Leicester Polytechnic, Leicester, Leicestershire: 1984 - 1987 (raised afterwards, as De Montfort University in 1992)
with some work as a teaching assistant, then lecturing?: xxxx? - yyyy?
Hatfield Polytechnic, which became the University of Hertfordshire (1992 charter) during tenure, Hatfield, Hertfordshire: 1989? (while still a poly.) - 200x?
in parallel, University of Oulu (1958 charter): xxxx? - yyyy?
King's College London (world Top 30 at the time; 1829 from a medical school from 1561; autonomous part of the federal University of London, which it co-founded in 1836): 200x - 2012?
University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales (from a 1951 college via the Univ. of NSW, split off 1975): 2012 - 2016
Murdoch University (MU), Perth, Western Australia (1973, first general admission 1975): 2016 - 2021
National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM) aka Maynooth University (MU), County Kildare, Ireland (from a seminary of 1795, later a pontifical university, split off in 1997): 2021 -
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The result was: promoted by
Z1720 (
talk) 21:02, 13 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Created by
SeoR (
talk). Self-nominated at 23:54, 6 February 2022 (UTC).reply
The article is long enough and new enough. I assume good faith on the references that I can't access. The hook is directly cited. A QPQ has been completed.
SL93 (
talk) 22:24, 12 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Neat article. Good ya made the front page, and over 3,100 readers that day, not shabby. A Finnish lingo-psychologist running unis in rural Aus and Ireland, wow.
95.161.235.229 (
talk) 10:48, 17 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Murdoch University
You need to get this straighter. The harsh reality of 2020-2021 led to:
“the federal higher education regulator put the institution on a short leash for failing to prove it could sufficiently manage deficiencies in quality and performance.
“given only a four-year reregistration period instead of the usual seven after the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency identified university governance as problematic”
and also on Leinonen’s watch:
The university subsequently unsuccessfully sued one of the whistleblowers, Gerd Schroeder-Turk, claiming lost revenue from a fall in international student enrolments”.
A fact from Eeva Leinonen appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 February 2022 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Finnish linguist Eeva Leinonen was one of four women to be inaugurated as heads of Irish universities in 2021, the others being
Maggie Cusack,
Linda Doyle and
Kerstin Mey?
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Academic trail
So that's a run through a whole mix of modern unis:
(1958)
Unnamed school(s) in Oulu: -1976 or 1977
with short placement in Michigan, USA: 1975 ?
Aston University (1966 charter), Birmingham: 1977 - 1981
University of Exeter (1955 charter), Exeter, Devon: 1981 - 1984
Leicester Polytechnic, Leicester, Leicestershire: 1984 - 1987 (raised afterwards, as De Montfort University in 1992)
with some work as a teaching assistant, then lecturing?: xxxx? - yyyy?
Hatfield Polytechnic, which became the University of Hertfordshire (1992 charter) during tenure, Hatfield, Hertfordshire: 1989? (while still a poly.) - 200x?
in parallel, University of Oulu (1958 charter): xxxx? - yyyy?
King's College London (world Top 30 at the time; 1829 from a medical school from 1561; autonomous part of the federal University of London, which it co-founded in 1836): 200x - 2012?
University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales (from a 1951 college via the Univ. of NSW, split off 1975): 2012 - 2016
Murdoch University (MU), Perth, Western Australia (1973, first general admission 1975): 2016 - 2021
National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM) aka Maynooth University (MU), County Kildare, Ireland (from a seminary of 1795, later a pontifical university, split off in 1997): 2021 -
The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as
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the article's talk page or
Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by
Z1720 (
talk) 21:02, 13 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Created by
SeoR (
talk). Self-nominated at 23:54, 6 February 2022 (UTC).reply
The article is long enough and new enough. I assume good faith on the references that I can't access. The hook is directly cited. A QPQ has been completed.
SL93 (
talk) 22:24, 12 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Neat article. Good ya made the front page, and over 3,100 readers that day, not shabby. A Finnish lingo-psychologist running unis in rural Aus and Ireland, wow.
95.161.235.229 (
talk) 10:48, 17 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Murdoch University
You need to get this straighter. The harsh reality of 2020-2021 led to:
“the federal higher education regulator put the institution on a short leash for failing to prove it could sufficiently manage deficiencies in quality and performance.
“given only a four-year reregistration period instead of the usual seven after the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency identified university governance as problematic”
and also on Leinonen’s watch:
The university subsequently unsuccessfully sued one of the whistleblowers, Gerd Schroeder-Turk, claiming lost revenue from a fall in international student enrolments”.