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The organization is in place: How AAU is implementing the Master's programme reform
Lagt online: 11.03.2025
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The organization is in place: How AAU is implementing the Master's programme reform
Lagt online: 11.03.2025
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The organization is in place: How AAU is implementing the Master's programme reform
By Lea Laursen Pasgaard, AAU Communication and Public Affairs
Photo: Lasse Møller Badstue
The work on implementing the Master's programme reform is in full swing at AAU. The Executive Management recently adopted the overall organization for how the university will work on implementing the Master's programme reform. The organization was discussed in the the Strategic Council for Education and the Main Joint Consultation Committee, and discussed at meetings with heads of department, heads of studies, and chairs and deputy chairs of study boards.
There are many elements in the Master's programme reform and the implementation is organized as a project where the Strategic Council for Education acts as a steering committee while the project management is anchored in Study Service.
As the Master's programme reform entails significant changes on various fronts, the work on the reform is divided into five tracks, each with its own working group. They will be tasked with determining the framework for the new types of degree programmes, research tracks, and administration and organization. The working groups are led by a member of the Strategic Council for Education and include a wide range of staff. The local organization and anchoring will take place at faculties and departments based on the input from the working groups.
THE FIVE TRACKS
1: Master's programmes of 75 ECTS credits, including quality improvement
2: Research track for Master's programmes of 75 ECTS credits
3: Master’s programmes for working professionals, including quality improvement
4: Continuing education/additional certificates of 45 ECTS credits for 75 ECTS credit programmes
5: Administration and organization
Broad representation
The working groups face a large and demanding task, and according to Pro-rector Anne Marie Kanstrup, it is important that the groups are composed so as to be representative of those directly affected by the Master's programme reform.
"The goal is constructive knowledge sharing and collaboration. We are facing a major task, and this requires that we stand together – that we put our heads together and work together – which will happen in the work packages and in the Strategic Council for Education," says Pro-rector Anne Marie Kanstrup.
"At the same time, good implementation requires local anchoring which the members of the groups will ensure. All groups thus have members from the four faculties, and the SSH faculty will have a representative from both the humanities and social sciences in some of the groups," she adds.
The vice deans for education nominate members from their own areas for the five tracks. The five working groups will also include representatives from, for example, Study Service, the Institute for Advanced Study in PBL, AAU PhD and administrative members with knowledge of programme administration at faculties and departments.
The working groups will be established in the spring of 2025, and the first two working groups will begin work in the spring. There are still frameworks for the reform that are not in place, but it is expected that these will be ready during the spring.
Organization of the work on the Master's programme reform:
Timetable:
In the first part of 2025, the central framework continues and the working groups in the five tracks are established.
The working groups on Master's programmes of 75 ECTS credits and Master's programmes for working professionals will be launched first, and the working groups on research tracks, administration and continuing education/supplementary certificates of 45 ECTS credit follow later.
From February 2025 to December 2027, the new degree programmes at AAU will be developed and approved. In parallel, the departments are responsible for the implementation.
There will be a phase-in of the new degree programmes where the political ambition is that:
- In 2028, 10 percent will be admitted to a Master's programmes of 75 ECTS. credits and 10 percent to a Master's programmes for working professionals.
- By 2030, an additional 5 percent will be admitted to a Master's programmes for working professionals.
- By 2032, an additional 5 percent will be admitted to a Master's programmes for working professionals.
Translated by LeeAnn Iovanni, AAU Communication and Public Affairs