The Helga Eng faculty building, with the bulb-encircled signature birch-tree in the foreground <3
QS ranks UiO’s Faculty of Educational Sciences 42nd among the world’s best educational sciences institutions and 10th in Europe (the top 8 are all in the UK).
We always treat rankings with some caution, but we’re satisfied with the acknowledgement from QS that FOED is a research and education institution of note in both European and world terms.
Prospective students - check out our English-language programmes here: http://www.uv.uio.no/english/ And note the absence of tuition fees in Norway :)
Sheena Miller is a second year HEEM student from the United States. She completed her BA at New York University, concentrating in Gender Studies, German Language and Marketing. After graduating she worked within sales & marketing analysis in NYC and Melbourne, and also spent two years teaching English in Bungotakada, Japan. Sheena now studies at the Faculty of Education at the University of Oslo.
Student blogger Seyran posts about the visit from the President of South Korea, Lee Myung-Bak to the University of Oslo and his contribution to a lecture about the subject of “A New Horizon For Lasting Peace and Prosperity“.
Researchers have found that, in North America, Atlanta tends to propel trends in hip-hop music, while Montreal leads listening habits for indie music. Over in Europe, meanwhile, Oslo is the big trend-setter.
Curious about studying in the capital of Norway? Read more!
"For young people to choose science, science must convincingly answer their question: “What’s in it for me?”. Students want to use their talents and develop themselves while working with something they are interested in and care about."
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Maria Vetlesæter Bøe
commenting on her recent doctoral thesis on young people’s choices of post-compulsory science education.
(Source: uv.uio.no)
New Public Management in Swedish Higher Education - and Gender Impacts
This podcast features professor Elisabeth Berg who reflects on recent developments in Swedish higher education in relation to new public management, and highlights the findings from a recent project that examined the role of gender in this new managerial context.
(Source: uv-net.uio.no)
The Faculty of Education at the University of Oslo (Norway) is proud to offer an award winning 2-year Master of Philosophy Programme in Higher Education. We are delighted to announce that the application round for European and Nordic applicants is now open!
Paying the Professoriate
“Paying the Professoriate: A Global Comparison of Compensations and Contracts,” presents the main findings of a comparative study conducted by the Laboratory for Institutional Analysis (LIA) at the Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow, and Boston College’s Center for International Higher Education, in the United States will be published soon by Routledge. The study included 28 countries from all continents and different economic, political, and academic contexts and provides valuable information about the remuneration for the academic work and other important topics shaping the academic profession.
Read the entire guest entry on the Faculty’s blogsite by Ivan F. Pacheco (co-editor of the book “Paying the Professoriate” and a research assistant at the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College).
