Webpages tagged with «higher education»

Universities are frequently described as specific, complex, bottom-heavy and loosely coupled organisations. But what does this mean, and how is university organisation changing?

Over the last fifty years, there have been more calls for interdisciplinary education, research, and work. Our project will develop pedagogies designed to improve collaboration in study programmes intended to prepare students for interdisciplinary research and work, to meet complex societal problems.

In this book, POLNET member Gunnlaugur Magnússon and co-author Johannes Rytzler illustrate how international policy shifts, primarily the Bologna-process, have affected debates around both the purpose and organization of higher education at different levels.

Based on qualitative interviews with academics from four different disciplines at the University of Oslo I explore the various ways in which responsibility towards the public is experienced and imagined.