November 2010

Today the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education (HSV) presented a new quality assurance system for 2011–2014 at a hearing in Lund for southern Sweden’s higher education institutions. The previous evaluation system had a number of objectives: to check, develop and inform. When asked, HSV’s panel made clear that the purpose of the new system is only to check. First- … Continue reading →

Eva was invited to attend the Forum for Internationalisation on 23 November to give a presentation of Lund University’s work to prepare for the introduction of tuition fees in 2011 and the issues we consider most difficult. The presentation (which Teresia Rindejäll helped to put together) highlighted how we are working strategically based on the action plan, that we are … Continue reading →

Today Jan Björklund visited the University to participate in the ceremony to mark the official start of construction for MAX IV. Before the celebrations for MAX IV, the University management had individual talks with the Minister for Education. Besides a short presentation of LU, we discussed a number of issues. We discussed our University Advisory Board’s recommendation that it is … Continue reading →

Eva attended the LERU (League of European Research Universities) meeting on 19-20 November. LERU is the network we prioritise at European level. Helga Nowotny, President of the European Research Council (ERC), came to the meeting to give a presentation of the ERC, discuss issues and some criticisms that LERU had raised. It is clear that LERU is a player that … Continue reading →

The University Board met on 12 November. The meeting opened with a presentation on the Pufendorf Institute by Sture Forsen. Tomas Achen and Hans Modig informed the meeting about the work on the consequences of the bill ‘Academia for this day and age – greater freedom for universities and other higher education institutions’, which was followed by a discussion. The quarterly … Continue reading →

Today we had a Vice-Chancellor’s assembly to honour contributions and achievements by staff at Lund University during 2010. It was great to meet some of our fantastic staff who have excelled in different ways. The diversity at our University is unique. Some of those who were honoured at the Vice-Chancellor’s assembly are: Fredrik Tjernström, medical specialist Received the prize for … Continue reading →

The Development Council held a meeting today, hosted by the Faculty of Medicine. As usual there was a packed agenda and a lot to discuss. Fredrik Lindström and Cecilia Wadsö Lecaros gave a presentation of AWELU (Academic Writing in English at Lund University). AWELU is a web-based resource platform for students and staff at LU on academic writing in English. … Continue reading →

On Thursday and Friday we were away for a productive planning session with the deans. The first day opened with a presentation of EQ11 by project manager Stefan Lindgren. Our 16 external advisors have now been appointed, draft instructions for self-evaluation are under discussion and the site visit is planned for 2–7 May 2011. For more information, see the EQ11 … Continue reading →

Yesterday and today the University Advisory Board (UAB) has been visiting us at Lund University. The members are Provost Judyth Sachs from Macquarie University in Sydney, Dr John Hood from Robert Foundation, USA and Professor Jan-Anders Månsson from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Judyth Sachs will also chair the evaluation panel for EQ11. We discussed cross-boundary activities, autonomy, MAX IV … Continue reading →

Because the issue of opportunities for consultation has been seen as important and has been brought up a number of times during the autumn, any decisions on changes to the organisation and decision and delegation rules will be made in June 2011 at the earliest. This means that we intend to propose that the University Board prolong the current rules … Continue reading →