1. agneta.bladh@gmail.com Magna Charta Observatory Conference September 2013 3rd Session, Challenges to the modern higher education: marketisation and creative new skills Agneta Bladh Member of the MCO Council and the EU HLG on Modernisation of Higher Education 120/09/2013

2.  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 agneta.bladh@gmail.com220/09/2013

3.  Different answers depending on position and perspective ◦ From within HEIs ◦ Students ◦ Governments ◦ Business society ◦ Public authorities agneta.bladh@gmail.com320/09/2013

4.  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? agneta.bladh@gmail.com420/09/2013

5.  Students with knowledge in certain fields  Students with no or restricted experience from the labour market  Students with inadequate transferable skills  ? agneta.bladh@gmail.com520/09/2013

6.  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 agneta.bladh@gmail.com620/09/2013

7. agneta.bladh@gmail.com  Mary McAleese (chair)  Vincent Berger  Agneta Bladh  Christian Bode  Jan Muehlfeit  Tea Petrin  Alessandro Schiesaro  Loukas Tsoukalis 720/09/2013

8. agneta.bladh@gmail.com  “Improving the Quality of Teaching and Learning in Europe´s Higher Education Institutions”  Two further reports are expected 820/09/2013

9.  Rebalance the HE agenda between research and teaching  Shift to a student-centred learning outcomes approach  Professionalize teaching agneta.bladh@gmail.com920/09/2013

10.  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 agneta.bladh@gmail.com1020/09/2013

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16.  Implement the recommendations from the HLG  Accent the transferable skills in programs  Insert internship in more programs  Combine relevance and quality when designing programs agneta.bladh@gmail.com1620/09/2013