Committee for Educational Sciences

The Committee also participates in international collaboration organisations and also works on monitoring, evaluation and strategic work. Another important task of the Committee is to arrange conferences on matters within the realm of education science.

Organisation

The researchers work within the field of education science. These include representatives of different academic orientations and they are nominated by the research community. The chairman of the Committee for Education Science is Sigbrit Franke, professor of education.

Secretary General

The Committee´s strategy

• the Committee is made permanent and is given the same basic conditions as the Scientific Councils within the Research Council
• an especially long-term subvention, which is subject to competition, is set up for the expansion of research and research training within education science in association with teacher-training courses
• research links within higher education are strengthened
• the number of research-trained teachers increases both in the obligatory and the voluntary sectors, including higher education
• an improvement is achieved in the accessibility of research results for society at large.

Members