On Friday Helsingin Sanomatasks itself a question dear to the hearts of many Yle News readers: why are so many highly-educated foreigners in Finland not doing jobs that match their qualifications?

The paper talks to a Cameroonian graduate who finally found an engineering job matching his degree after years spent cleaning offices.

His classmates with lower grades received job offers before they even graduated, but for some reason he did not. He says his confidence took a blow.

That is until he found Pointer Potential, a company that HS says looks to find highly-educated foreigners jobs matching their skills.

They have some 3,000 people on their books and they serve as a kind of guarantor to hesitant Finnish firms wondering whether to leave that position unfilled or to hire a foreigner. In the first year of their employment they are effectively an agency worker on the books of Pointer Potential rather than the hiring company.

It's a necessary service, even for the Finnish branches of quite international companies.

"Many international companies' Finnish head offices are themselves extremely Finnish," saidJohanna Korpia from Pointer Potential. "In practice during recruitment some Finnish 'Antti' or 'Leena' for some reason gets the job ahead of a foreign applicant, even though their qualifications are weaker on paper."

English high school?

Aamulehtilooks at proposals to introduce an English-language high school leavers' certificate, which Tampere and five other cities are promoting.

The paper reports that cities have started discussions with the Ministry of Education to try and move the proposal forward.

It's not a new idea: it's been proposed before, and officials have answered that Tampere and other places already have international high schools, where pupils take the International Baccalaureate exam.

But that's not the same as Finland's own certificate, and the cities want to change that. Capacity at IB high schools is limited, and Finland's population is becoming ever more international.

That means that demand will explode, and people who move here in their teenage years will be at a huge disadvantage to their Finnish- and Swedish- speaking peers if they cannot take exams in their strongest academic language.

The last government also tried to change the law on this, but their attempt was rejected at the committee stage.

Aamulehti reports that officials remain unenthusiastic about the idea, arguing that it might mean people moving to Finland would not learn the right languages.

"You have to teach them Finnish or Swedish so that they can handle everyday life," saidPetri Lempinen from the ministry.

AL also asked kids at a high school in Tampere what they think of the idea, and got a universal thumbs up.

Politicians might not agree, but if a decision is reached it will come in budget talks next week, according to Lempinen.

Olympic dreams

The top story on Ilta-Sanomat's sports pages on Friday waswomen's ice hockey goaltender Meeri Räisänen's plea for financial support as she prepares for the Olympics in China next year.

Räisänen has just won bronze with her team mates at the world championships, but now she's returned back down to earth. With a bump.

She tweeted a plea for sponsors to help her cover the costs of her season with the JYP Akatemia boys team, where she plays her regular hockey.

The goal of playing with the men's under-20 team is to face tougher challenges every week, and Räisänen tells IS that most of her teammates in the national team are doing the same.

The season costs around 5,000 euros altogether, and Räisänen does not have a sponsor to cover it this year.