New educational organisation
FyFa's new educational organisation came into force on 1 July 2024 and aims to facilitate the teaching work and ensure the quality of teaching at FyFa.
The new educational organisation means that two new working groups have been created, in addition to the existing Education Board (utbildningsnämnden, UN). These two are the Steering Group for Teaching at FyFa (STUFF) and a team for undergraduate education (Team GUA). In addition to the existing undergraduate programme manager (GUA) and master's programme manager (PD) already in place, there are two deputy GUAs and one deputy PD. The new organisation also implies a reinforcement of the teaching administration with a team leader for the course administrators. The teams now consist of the following functions:
STUFF: Chair (Johanna Lanner), GUA (Kent Jardemark), PD (Jessica Norrbom), Team Leader Course Administration (Gottfried Gemzell)
Team GUA: GUA (Kent Jardemark), 2 Deputy GUAs (Nico Pillon and Karima Chergui), Deputy PD (Ana Teixeira), Team Leader Course Administration (Gottfried Gemzell).
UN: GUA and chair (Kent Jardemark), PD and deputy chair (Jessica Norrbom), 4 teacher representatives (Duarte Ferriera, Ellinor Kenne, Mattias Carlström and Gunnar Schulte), 2 student representatives (TBD), 1 administrator (Sofia Pettersson), adjunct: chair STUFF (Johanna Lanner), external teacher representatives (Nina Brodin, NVS and Jonas Sundbäck, MTC), 2 receivers from the region (Malin Jonsson Fagerlund and Johan Mårtensson).
With a clearer organisation and stronger and clearer administrative support, it will be easier to teach at FyFa. The new organisation will apply from 1 July 2024.
Everyone who teaches is getting involved
The work has begun and will affect everyone in the department to some degree. In a first stage, an analysis of teaching at FyFa has been carried out in which everyone who teaches has been involved in some way. Based on the results of the analysis, the management team has continued to work on solutions, including a new model for organising teaching. All employees who teach at FyFa are now beginning to be involved in the continued work on the development of teaching.
Questions and answers on the new educational organisation
Quality issues are already at the centre of the UN today and will continue to be an important part. They will be important also in Team GUA. We will be able to address this also in the autumn workshop for PI's and administrative staff.
Exactly how remains to be worked out in the autumn, but right from the start Team GUA will have a central role. The fact that we now have a team leader for course administration in place will also help to clarify what help all teachers will be able to receive. All course coordinators and course administrators will also participate in the autumn workshop.
The project group is the entire management team of FyFa. Additional members of the project group are Peter Alterling and Julia Spector who work with organisational development and communication respectively.