Oslo and Akershus University College

Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences
Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus
Type University college
Established 2011
Rector Curt Rice
Students c. 20,000 (2016)
Location Oslo, Sandvika and Kjeller, Norway
Website hioa.no

Oslo and Akershus University College (Norwegian: Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus, abbr. HiOA) is the largest state university college in Norway, with more than 20,000 students and 2,100 employees.[1] HiOA has higher education programs at bachelor's, master's and PhD level. It offers studies and conducts research in health professions, social sciences, engineering, liberal arts, and other fields.

HiOA was established in 2011 following the merger of Oslo University College and Akershus University College, which were themselves the results of many previous mergers. In 2014 the Work Research Institute and Norwegian Social Research were also merged into the institution, and from 2016 it also incorporates the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research and the National Institute for Consumer Research. Most of the university college is located in the city centre of Oslo along the Pilestredet street, with subsidiary campuses in Sandvika and Kjeller in Akershus.

Education

The language of instruction is Norwegian, and certain courses are taught in English, both on bachelor's degree and master's degree level and to some extent on PhD level.

Ranks

Oslo and Akershus University College uses all three academic career pathways in Norway. The main career pathway includes the ranks assistant professor, associate professor and professor. The research career pathway is mainly used at the Work Research Institute, Norwegian Social Research, the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research and the National Institute for Consumer Research, and includes the ranks researcher, senior researcher and research professor, which correspond directly to assistant professor, associate professor and professor and have similar promotion criteria. The teaching career pathway is still used by the original university college, and includes the ranks first lecturer and docent as alternatives to the associate professor and professor ranks.

Management

Curt Rice, an American linguist who was formerly a professor at the University of Tromsø, became rector on August 1, 2015.[2] He is not the first non-Norwegian to head a Norwegian university or college however, as the University of Oslo has been headed by the French-born Oscar I of Sweden and various Swedish statesmen as chancellors.

Faculties

Centres

Centre for the Study of Professions

Centre for the Study of Professions (CSP, Norwegian: Senter for profesjonsstudier) was formally opened in 1999 in order to stimulate research and critical reflection within the study of professions.[3]

The study of professions includes several areas of research,[4] such as:

CSP develops the study of professions as a multidisciplinary field of research emphasising comparative approaches. The goal of CSP is to become a leading research facility within the study of professions in the Nordic countries.[3]

CSP carries out a number of projects and activities, among them

Ongoing research projects in English:

CSP currently employs approximately 40 professors, researchers, fellows and administrative staff. CSP also hosts the open access journal Professions and Professionalism.

Centre for the Study of Professions

Centre for Welfare and Labour Research

Centre for Welfare and Labour Research (SVA) consists of Work Research Institute (AFI), Norwegian Social Research (NOVA), Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR), and Consumption Research Norway (SIFO).

References

  1. ↑ Facts about OAUC
  2. ↑ Walsh, Paul (March 29, 2015). "Minnesota native chosen president of Norway's largest university". Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
  3. 1 2 http://www.hioa.no/eng/About-HiOA/CSP/About-CSP
  4. ↑ Molander and Terum 2008

See also

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