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2015-01-27 News

Dare to peak your mind in academia?

All signs indicate that it has become much less acceptable to criticise your own organisation. This is what political scientist Shirin Ahlbäck Öberg says, who argues that this is a result of the autonomy reform.
2015-01-21 News

Dolly Jørgensen new blogger in Curie

She is going to take the Curie blog readers on ”An Expedition into the Heart of the Humanities”. Dolly Jørgensen is a historian of the environment and technology at Umeå University and the first Curie blogger who writes in English.
2015-01-08 News

Women take up more space in mathematics

The Iranian-American Mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani has become the first woman to be awarded the Fields medal – the mathematical equivalent of the Nobel Prize."This is a big breakthrough as women have had a hard time claiming their rightful place within the field of mathematics," says Gerd Brandell researcher in Mathematics Education.
2013-11-13 News

Smart recruitment instead of stipends

Instead of recruiting as many postdocs as possible, Lund University is trying to recruit them as smartly as possible. This is one of the results of an initiative to introduce stricter regulations on stipend funding.
2013-11-12 News

Postdocs demand better terms

It began as a survey among Karolinska Institutet’s postdoctoral students, which showed that many postdocs were dissatisfied with their situation. Discussions to improve these terms are in progress.
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Links

Shirin Ahlbäck Öberg’s website at Uppsala University

Academic rights watch

Council for the Defence of British Universities

AUTONOMY REFORM

The 2011 autonomy reform was a reform of state universities and other higher education institutes in Sweden which aimed to increase self-determination.

The purpose was to make it easier for universities to collaborate internationally, make contact with the business world and other universities,  introduce international competence into their boards as well as be able to take more long-term and strategic responsibility for research and education. 

The reform included the extensive deregulation of the internal organisation and of teaching positions. The requirement to have faculty boards was abolished.

En akademi i tiden – ökad frihet för universitet och högskolor [An academy of its times – increased freedom for higher education institutions]

Four changes

In the study ”Autonomireformen – Vad hände med det kollegiala styret? [Autonomy regime – what happened to collegial decision-making?](Elin Sundberg, 2013) four changes that the autonomy reform made possible are listed:

1) Collegial decision-making has been expanded to include more categories of employees within the higher education institutions. In some cases technical/administrative staff have been authorised to make collegial decisions – without having the scientific competence.

2) Line managers have been given increased power in choosing collegial leaders.

3) Line managers have been given increased power, even in matters which concern the quality of first, second and third-cycle education, in decisions which involve appointing staff, and decisions which involve financial matters.

4) There is also a tendency of centralising collegial decision-making due to the fact that a central faculty management body has been set up and decision-making has been moved to this superior body. At the same time, there are examples of certain bodies below the faculty board level that have become advisory or even been abolished.

Also read Autonomireformen – En kompletterande studie av förändringar i beslutsmakt vid fem lärosäten.[Autonomy reform – A supplementary study of changes in decision-making at five higher education institutions]. Elin Sundberg, 2014.

Source: Uppsala University

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