Nordic Fields of Higher Education

Network meeting IV
Dept. of Sociology, University of Copenhagen
April 11-12 2013

Programme

THURSDAY 11th of April

10.30 - 11.00 Welcome and coffee

11.00 - 12.30 Lecture: Kaare Aagaard, the Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy, Aarhus University: "Danish Research Policy and the universities, trends and patterns"

12.30 -13.30 Lunch

13.30-16.30 Theme 1: Transitions and recruitment-patterns in relation to choice of higher education.
* Caroline Berggren: Gender and class perspectives on students' choice of higher education institutions and graduates' choice of job location
* Håvard Helland: Choice of field of study in higher education
* Christian Helms-Jørgensen: The transition from Vocational education at higher secondary level to higher education


FRIDAY 12th of April

9.30-12.00 Theme 2: Retention and drop out from higher education
* Elisabeth Hovdhaugen & Per Olaf Aamodt: Retention and drop out from higher education
* Carina Carlhed: Exploring pathways in university education - study patterns among students in undergraduate programs with professional qualifications.

12.00-13.00 Lunch

13.00 -14.00 Discussion on Oslo conference fall 2014

14.00-15.00 Update on the "education for tomorrow"-project and future activities

The conference will be held at Dept. of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, building 16, room 16.2.55

Contact

Jens Peter Thomsen, mikael.borjesson@edu.uu.se, +45 61308482 .