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Evaluation of Forestry, Horticulture and Technology programmes and the Animal Nursing programme at Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet (The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) 2006

This report presents an evaluation of Forestry, Horticulture and Technology programmes and the Animal Nursing programme at Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet carried out by Högskoleverket in 2006. The evaluation is part of the commission given to Högskoleverket to evaluate all higher education for the period 2001—2006.
 
Högskoleverket adjudges that the Forestry programme, the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Forest Management, the Horticulture programme, the Horticultural Science postgraduate programme and the undergraduate and postgraduate Technology programmes satisfy quality requirements for higher education. The Animal Nursing programme and Horticultural Management programme, however, do not have the scientific depth and progression necessary to satisfy the quality requirements for higher education. Högskoleverket therefore asks Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet to report, within a year, the measures the university has taken before Högskoleverket recommends to the government that the right to award degrees be withdrawn.

In their overall appraisal, the Evaluation Group has pointed out the need for every institution to carry out situation analyses in order to change/regenerate academic programmes so that they better match current and expected future needs for students with their particular qualifications. This is especially relevant for Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet which is the only institution offering these vocational courses.

Both Högskoleverket and the Evaluation Group praise Lantbruksuniversitet for its excellent research opportunities provided for almost all of the university´s undergraduate programmes. This is made possible as postgraduate work constitutes 75 percent of its activities and undergraduate programmes only 25 percent. The Evaluation Group also especially mentions the Danish/Swedish Horticulture programme as an exciting example of how a degree programme exploits profiling and institutional collaboration to inject quality into a joint Swedish/Danish project. This is exactly the kind of the action which needs to be taken to maintain and improve quality in Swedish higher education, according to Högskoleverket.

Last updated: 2008-02-08
Contact person: Joakim Palestro, e-mail: forename.surname@hsv.se
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