EDUCATION IN DENMARK

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1 EDUCATION IN DENMARK UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ZEALAND 1

2 EDUCATING TOMORROW S PROFESSIONALS 2

3 WELCOME TO UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ZEALAND With ten professional bachelor degree programs, University College Zealand is the central driver for education and growth in our region, offering degrees within the educational, social, health and administrative areas. It is the first University College in Denmark to achieve an institutional accreditation, the highest official recognition for quality assurance of higher education institutions in Denmark. We have close partnerships with the workplaces that our graduates will join. This ensures highquality traineeship opportunities as well as a constant development of our programs to provide graduates with the needed skills to join and navigate in an ever-changing job market. It is a priority for us to train students with professional qualifications and social competences that can ensure high standards in the public as well as the private sector. YOUR GOAL IS OUR GOAL // Our international strategy has a focus on intercultural competences and we aim to maintain a strong international profile which will leave its mark on the everyday activities and skills of our students and employees, and their professional services. We look forward to sharing and exchanging knowledge with attractive international partners in the future. Camilla Wang Rector University College Zealand 3

4 8453 FULL DEGREE STUDENTS AT UC ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN DENMARK 2014 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ZEALAND PROFESSIONAL BACHELOR DEGREES 3½-4 YEARS ( ECTS) INCLUDING UP TO 1½ YEARS OF PRACTICAL TRAINING 3½ - 4 YEARS AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE TOTAL UP TO 1½ YEARS PRACTICAL TRAINING PROGRAMS BIOMEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE LEISURE MANAGEMENT (IN ENGLISH) NURSING NUTRITION & HEALTH OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY PHYSIOTHERAPY PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION SOCIAL EDUCATION SOCIAL WORK TEACHER EDUCATION (IN ENGLISH) 200 P A R T N E R INSTITUTIONS 40 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES YOUR GOAL IS OUR GOAL EDUCATING TOMORROW S PROFESSIONALS 4

5 5.67 MIO CITIZENS OF DENMARK 820,000 CITIZENS OF ZEALAND 7300 KM 2000 KM 69 TOTAL DANISH COASTLINE REGION ZEALAND COASTLINE REGION ZEALAND BEACHES DENMARK LEGO HAS PRODUCED 760 BILLION EACH PERSON IN THE WORLD OWNS AN AVERAGE OF 102 THE LITTLE MERMAID CREATED IN 1913 HAS LOST HER HEAD TWICE AND AN ARM ONCE 90% OF DANES OWN A BIKE 36% BIKE TO WORK EVERY DAY NORTHERN EUROPE S 10, KM KM BIKE ROUTES DAILY AVERAGE BIKE RIDE BY EACH DANE ROSKILDE FESTIVAL LARGEST ANNUAL MUSIC FESTIVAL 175 ARTISTS 30 NATIONS FROM HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN BORN IN DENMARK PUBLISHED FAIRY TALES TRANSLATED INTO DIFFERENT LANGUAGES

6 ABOUT DENMARK DENMARK IS THE PLACE TO STUDY ABROAD Denmark is one of the smallest countries in Europe with a population of approximately 5.6 million people. The nation has the oldest monarchy in the world, and the queen and her family reside in the capital city of Copenhagen. The Kingdom of Denmark also includes Greenland and the Faroe Islands. Danes enjoy a high level of education, health care, social mobility and protection of civil rights, and Danes are frequently ranked as one of the happiest people in the world. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ZEALAND // Is a regional university college, covering the geographical area of Region Zealand which has 820,000 inhabitants. University College Zealand has approximately 8500 students and 650 employees at our six campuses in the cities of Roskilde, Sorø, Slagelse, Næstved, Vordingborg and Nykøbing Falster. All campuses are easily reached from Copenhagen, the travelling time varying from 30 minutes to 1 ½ hours by train. CAMPUSES // University College Zealand s newest Campus Roskilde provides some of the most innovative educational facilities in Denmark. Our other campuses, Sorø, Slagelse, Næstved, Vordingborg and Nykøbing F., are a mixture of new buildings with state-of-art educational equipment and historic buildings with charm and atmosphere from generations of scholars. All campuses combine opportunities for interdiscplinary studies, e-learning, group work and lectures by national and international scholars. PROGRAMS // We offer ten professional bachelor degree programs two of which are taught in English. Each program consists of theoretical as well as practical training. Furthermore, we receive an increasing number of exchange students for our renowned international semesters or for traineeships in our respective professions. 6

7 DENMARK IS THE PLACE TO STUDY ABROAD 7

8 ENGLISH PROGRAMS INTERNATIONAL WORK INTERNATIONAL HONOR S DEGREE TEACHER EDUCATION 250 ECTS Vordingborg The increased number of international schools worldwide is creating a high demand for teachers with intercultural competences. University College Zealand has developed an honor s degree in Teacher Education with an international focus. Students apply to the Danish Teacher Education program that authorizes to teach in Danish primary and lower secondary schools. Students pursue the international profile via courses in English as well as teaching practices abroad. BACHELOR OF LEISURE MANAGEMENT 210 ECTS Nykøbing F. The Leisure Management program enables students to focus broadly on the leisure industries or to specialize within a specific area such as tourism, marketing, sports or event management. A compulsory six-month traineeship in Denmark or abroad is an integrated part of the curriculum, which prepares students for the transition from student to employee and offers a unique opportunity to combine academic skills with hands-on experience. EUROPEAN MASTER OF SCIENCE IN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY 90 ECTS STRATEGIC INTERNATIONALIZATION // As an active player in a globalized society, University College Zealand works strategically towards internationalization. This entails a focus on intercultural competences among students as well as employees. We intend to be an important contributor to a strengthened level of internationalization in the Danish educational sector, and to realize the developmental and commercial opportunities made possible by globalization. GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS // In our work with global partners we have three main focus areas. We have strong strategic partnerships around the world, for example in Vietnam, the Netherlands and Canada. These are long-term partnerships, where we collaborate in terms of student and staff mobility as well as development of practice-based teaching and research. It is a priority for us to facilitate a high degree of student and staff mobility outgoing as well as incoming. This ensures a high degree of internationalization at home as well as strong intercultural competences among our students and staff. In collaboration with local partner institutions, we work with capacity building in the educational sector in for example Vietnam, where we have had mutually beneficial partnerships for over a decade. The European Master of Science in Occupational Therapy is offered in collaboration with higher education institutions from Sweden, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Throughout the program, students visit all the partnering institutions to be inspired by new approaches to occupational therapy and network with fellow therapists. ucsj.dk/english 8

9 NORWAY SWEDEN DENMARK COPENHAGEN CAMPUS ROSKILDE GERMANY CAMPUS SORØ CAMPUS SLAGELSE CAMPUS NÆSTVED CAMPUS VORDINGBORG CAMPUS NYKØBING F. PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCES AND PRACTICAL SKILLS FOR TOMORROW S JOB MARKET 9

10 FLEXIBLE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS AND INNOVATIVE WAYS OF TEACHING 10

11 TOMORROW S PROFESSIONALS PRACTICE-ORIENTED AND RESEARCH-BASED EDUCATION OUR VISION // University College Zealand s goal is to develop outstanding educational programs while contributing to regional development in our areas of expertise. Our six centers bring together our professional bachelor programs, continuing education as well as research and innovation within our core professional areas: Social Education Teaching and Learning Nursing and Bioanalytics Management and Experience Design Nutrition and Rehabilitation Social Work and Administration Our students meet lecturers with a strong professional profile and didactic skills, who are connected to the practical field as well as application-oriented research. Furthermore, students work with practical research projects on campus an addition to their practical placements, allowing them to work with a systematic knowledge development within their practical field. TOMMOROW S PROFESSIONALS // At University College Zealand we want to ensure that our students graduate with a strong practical and research-based degree, making them valuable to their professions in a national as well as international context. The guiding principle for our organization is that our core service and most important contribution to the world around us, nationally as well as internationally, is practice-oriented and research-based education and knowledge production. 11

12 University College Zealand International Office Slagelsevej Soroe Denmark T: E: international@ucsj.dk ucsj.dk/english 12