hoping to move to tampere in feb 2007

[Rosamunda]

No idea about Sibelius.

Most Unis in Finland have a fixed number of places for foreign students each year (eg Faculty of Education used to be 2 places every other year... but that was a few years ago). So you would be in competition with whoever else applies the same time as you.

[Rosamunda]

Right, because you are a rich capitalist with your own business, so you don't need any welfare unlike the downtrodden exploited masses of the proletariat!

But you can also teach in language schools without having a TMI. You tell the tax office that you are "freelance" and that way you can, for example, work for several different language schools at the same time. This is what I do, though I am now moving towards a TMI for various reasons. Most language schools will not hire teachers on a permanent basis because the workload is so variable (and so are the teachers....) so you won't find it easy to get a fulltime job with one school, but you can probably manage to get a decent number of hours per week by working for 2 or 3 schools.

But maybe you should try and find some language courses first because you will have to fit your job around those. I doubt if there is a huge amount of choice in FFL courses in Tampere.

[Oombongo]

Excellent grades in your marksheet from your home/previous university will help you to get an admission. Usually the competition is quite tough. This is my experience with IT field. I am not sure about Music though.

[Hank W.]

"Getting into University", especially in the arts can be interesting. I would have to like studied film. so basically yearly they take 4 people out of 400 applicants or something like that. And most of the guys applying had already made their own films... So without money you cannot get in, especially after 8mm film development was quit in Finland.

*these days* with cheap video cams and computers... fun fun fun

[gegenschein]

Excellent grades in your marksheet from your home/previous university will help you to get an admission. Usually the competition is quite tough. This is my experience with IT field. I am not sure about Music though.

i'm noticing that with a bachelor degree in finland one can pretty much count on it helping out in one way: wiping your arse when you cannot afford toilet paper.
it is recognised that a bachelor degree means something slightly different in the states, and supposedly takes a different amount of time to complete?

as far as "excellent" marks, i would hardly pass, despite my diploma stating 'cum laude'.

[zam]

And Sibelius Academy is VERY difficult to get admitted into the degree programmes - also for Finns.