University West

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University West in Trollhättan is a modern university that offers education collaborating with work-life in an attractive and modern study environment. We focus on the student and learning. There are about 11 000 students at University West and about 600 employees. Our campus is centrally located in Trollhättan and is built with students' needs in focus. The concave surfaces make it simple for students, teachers, and work-life to coexist. The university offers study programs, second cycle programs, and various courses in computing and IT, economy and leadership, health and care, teaching and languages, media, the individual and society, and technology. We have programs in which we collaborate and cooperate closely with work-life, businesses, and society. Through our profile - work-integrated learning, WIL - students at the university gain work experience already while studying. University West has been commissioned by the government to develop pedagogics connected to WIL. One example of WIL is the so-called Co-op in which studies are sandwiched with periods of paid work.
Research is conducted within technology, social science, health and caring sciences, and the humanities. Work-integrated learning constitutes a critical, interdisciplinary field of research. There is a strong connection between the research conducted at University West and undergraduate education. The research concerning production processes in the manufacturing industry is of particular importance. This research is conducted in close collaboration with a variety of businesses. University West is authorized to award degrees at the doctoral level in production processes and Work Integrated Learning.
University West is a driving force within society, working together with the surrounding community to create knowledge and make this knowledge accessible to a broader audience. University West'sWest's mission is to provide excellent education and conduct high-quality research. The university specializes in Work Integrated Learning (WIL), and one of its overarching goals is to be Sweden'sSweden's leading university in this field.
The university'suniversity's core activities are education and research. The university's university's central concept and brand promise are to create knowledge through collaboration, and therefore collaboration is a central strategy for achieving high-quality education and research. Collaboration means mutual collaboration with partners in the surrounding community, the public sector, and trade and industry. This requires both a high level of academic expertise and a humble attitude regarding the knowledge and perspective of other parties. Collaboration is linked to both research and education and takes place primarily within the framework of Work Integrated Learning. In a globalized society where complex problems require multidisciplinary collaboration, it is natural and essential that University West'sWest's teachers and researchers collaborate with colleagues in the academic community in Sweden, abroad, and across disciplines.
University West is to have a wide range of study programs and courses that facilitate lifelong learning through different educational models. To achieve high quality and relevance, education at University West shall be closely linked to students' future working life and society's role. During their studies, students shall come in contact with working life in a nuseverals. A high proportion of the university's university's doctoral students shall have direct links to working life. Education at University West is always to be linked to research. How knowledge is created through collaboration and how study programs and courses are progressively linked to research shall be explicitly expressed through the pedagogical methods used. The students'students' acquisition of knowledge shall be the main focus, and students shall be familiar with the implications of academic learning and how academic knowledge is applied. The university's university's learning environment shall be characterized by diversity. Students and teachers from different backgrounds and nationalities shall come together to contribute to jointly and take responsibility for their own and others'others' contribute jointlyticipate in the development of academic knowledge. The university's university's Work Integrated Learning profile also means it can be a driving force and center for lifelong learning.
The work at University West is characterized by high quality. There is an ongoing systematic work with quality at the university to continually revise all aspects of work conducted at the university and create suitable routines. The quality improvement work rests on the university's central commission: to provide education on undergraduate and post-graduate levels, conduct research, and provide research programs of high quality and collaborate with the surrounding community. Quality improvement work includes many dimensions and is a continuous process. The focus of the quality improvement work at University West is on educational quality and how frames and conditions for our primary process, the student's path through university and studies, can be quality assured. The staff'sstaff's skill and knowledge is a crucial factor here, together with the educational organization's ability and support functions to facilitate the primary process. Standards and Guidelines evaluate the programs at University West for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area, ESG. The Swedish Higher Education Authority (UKÄ) evaluates the quality of higher education and research and monitors compliance with laws and regulations among all universities in Sweden.

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