At a meeting in Botswana, I saw how universities worldwide share the same driving force: to deliver solutions for their students and for the future – whether it’s on one of our campuses or in the canteen at Botho University, which focuses on IT. Over an intensive week, I and three colleagues visited Tanzania, Kenya … Continue reading “Deepened collaborations in Africa”
Outside perspectives are important and beneficial, and they develop quality for the future. Our latest Research Assessment Exercise, RAE 2021, in which experts evaluated our research, is an excellent example of this. With nine subject panels using self-assessment and three interdisciplinary panels for impact, sustainable development and research infrastructures, 90 experts have taken the pulse … Continue reading “Review strengthens KTH’s research for the future”
Sometimes you get the impression that study programmes at KTH have always looked the way they have done for the last five, ten or one hundred years. Nothing could be further from the truth. Our programmes are always being continuously developed. Partly because our researchers are also teachers and are accordingly able to incorporate the … Continue reading “KTH’s holistic approach to future education”
It is exciting to watch how a university becomes real. The foundations have been laid, the procedures, rules and regulations are in place, and it is now time for visions and strategies to take over. As a board member in the Governing Body of the newly established Munster Technological University on the south coast of … Continue reading “How a university emerges”
With a growing sense of surprise and despair, I read a report that once again shows the pay gap between male and female engineers. But then I became angry. This is absolutely not OK in Sweden in the year 2021. KTH has for many years sought to systematically encourage both women and men to study … Continue reading “When the salary reflects old-fashioned thinking”
