Faculty of Educational Sciences (UiO)

Want to work with education and pedagogy in Europe's fastest-growing capital? The deadline for submitting an application for an associate professorship in #education at FOED is tomorrow!

The Helga Eng faculty building, with the bulb-encircled signature birch-tree in the foreground <3

QS ranks UiO's Faculty of Educational Sciences 42nd among the world's best educational sciences institutions and 10th in Europe (the top 8 are all in the UK). We always treat rankings with some caution, but we're satisfied with the acknowledgement from QS that FOED is a research and education institution of note in both European and world terms. Prospective students - check out our English-language programmes here: http://www.uv.uio.no/english/ And note the absence of tuition fees in Norway :)

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“.

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commenting on her recent doctoral thesis on young people's choices of post-compulsory science education.

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.

The Faculty of Educational Sciences (Helga Eng building) at the University of Oslo campus. Eerily quiet for Easter break, but a great time to get lots of work done :)

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!

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).

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.

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.

High School students from all over Oslo come to experience student life for a day.

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.