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.
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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).
Dr. Romulo Pinheiro
An interview with recent PhD graduate Dr. Romulo Pinheiro where he shares his experiences with pursuing and completing a PhD focused on Higher Education and Regional Development at the Faculty of Educational Sciences.
(Source: youtube.com)
Online learning and interaction
Use of technology in higher education holds amazing opportunities for those flexible enough to act on them - and significant threats for those who are not.
Manja Klemenčič (from Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fuer Sozialforschung and CEPS at University of Ljubljana) will present this HEIK-lecture.
The lecture will address how to conceptualise the organisation of student interests in cross-European perspective and explore the question of ‘institutional change’ in representative student organisations.
Professor Lee Harvey provides us with insights into the issue of introducing a learning outcomes based approach in higher education, and shares his views on the relationship between policy and practice in this area in the UK. Prof Harvey visited Oslo in the end of 2011 and the lecture was given as a HEIK open seminar at University of Oslo.
