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Over the course of the past three decades there has been a steady expansion of opportunities for higher education within the areas of the circumpolar north. Responding in part to broad global trends associated with the growth and development of the ‘new information age’, the governments of the Nordic countries, Canada, the United States and Russia have all sought to provide their northern communities with the capabilities to better adapt themselves to the challenges of this new reality. In so doing, they have contributed to the creation of new institutions of advanced education, the expansion of curricula and degree offerings and the sponsorship of both applied and general research in these northern areas. Often these governments have portrayed the future development of their northern regions as being directly linked to the effective operation of these northern universities (Lipponen, 1997).
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Nord, D.C. (2002). The Role of Universities in Northern Development: A Comparative Perspective. In: Nord, D.C., Weller, G.R. (eds) Higher Education Across the Circumpolar North. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230504585_11
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