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Magna Charta Observatory Conference September 2013

3rd Session, Challenges to the modern higher education: marketisation and

creative new skills

Agneta BladhMember of the MCO Council and the EU HLG

on Modernisation of Higher Education

Modernisation challenges to universities

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Personal experiences from the higher education sector

Following the Swedish debate inside and outside the HE sector

Part of the European debate through the EU HLG

Background for this presentation

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Different answers depending on position and perspective◦ From within HEIs

◦ Students

◦ Governments

◦ Business society

◦ Public authorities

What do we mean by Modernisation of HE?

Higher competences in most labour market sectors

Transferable skills such as organisational skills, team-working, communication skills, language skills, experience of other cultures, reliability, integrity

Impatience: Immediate supply of personnel with adequate competence

Short-sighted?

Which are the market demands?

Students with knowledge in certain fields

Students with no or restricted experience from the labour market

Students with inadequate transferable skills

Which are the outputs from universities?

Mandate based on the Communication ”An Agenda for the Modernisation of Europe’s Higher Education Systems”

Support the Commission in identifying and designing interventions to support reforms in Member States

Analyse three topics for the modernisation of HE: Excellence in teaching, Learning in the digital age and a third topic later decided

Prime target audience: Policy makers in HE and HEIs

EU High Level Group on Modernisation of HE

Mary McAleese (chair) Vincent Berger Agneta Bladh Christian Bode Jan Muehlfeit Tea Petrin Alessandro Schiesaro Loukas Tsoukalis

Members of the HLG

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“Improving the Quality of Teaching and Learning in Europe´s Higher Education Institutions”

Two further reports are expected

HLG Report in June 2013

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Rebalance the HE agenda between research and teaching

Shift to a student-centred learning outcomes approach

Professionalize teaching

Challenges to quality teaching in HEIs

to provoke a broader discussion in all MS about quality in teaching and learning in HE

to identify a range of incentives to be applied by MS with varied starting points

to enable positive changes in the behaviour of HEIs, staff and students

to propose ways for the EU how to support governments and stakeholders in implementing new models of teaching and learning

The HLG aims

Develop and implement a strategy for the support and on-going improvement of the quality of teaching and learning(Recommendation 2)

Certified pedagogical training(Recommendation 4)

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Promote cross-, trans- and interdisciplinaryapproaches to teaching and learning, helping students develop their breadth of understanding and entrepreneurial and innovative mind-sets

Develop and implement holistic internationalisation strategies (Recommendation 12)

The European Union should support the implementation of the recommendations from the HLG(Recommendation 13)

Implement the recommendations from the HLG

Accent the transferable skills in programs

Insert internship in more programs Combine relevance and quality when designing programs

How to respond to the modernisation challenges?

Thank you for your attention!

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