Högskolepodden

In a polarized political climate, the Center Party has a unique role to play. How does a center party see its place in university politics? Why is academic freedom so important to them? And what are the Center Party's ambitions for higher education?

In the latest episode, we are visited by Anders Ådahl, the Center Party's spokesperson for higher education and research and fiscal policy spokesperson. With his background as a doctorate in environment and energy, he shares his thoughts on future education policy.

SFS former chairman Jacob Färnert talks to Karin Åmossa, head of social policy at Sweden's university teachers and researchers. Karin Åmossa wrote the report "System error in the knowledge factory", a real newsstand in the world of higher education. It describes and measures an alarming erosion of the university's resources - but what does the situation look like six years later?

How do we train the engineers of the future? Anders Söderholm, rector at KTH and former director general of the University Chancellor's Office, contributes his perspective.

University politics! How is the debate actually going? What is one's university policy and how should we students think about the issues being discussed? It's time to take the temp - in an hour of university politics.

Mats Benner and Jacob Färnert, SFS chairman, discuss Sweden's research policy and the next research bill.

We sort out the situation for academic freedom in Sweden together with Professor Shirin Ahlbäck Öberg.

These are troubled times in the outside world and Högskolepodden discusses the role of universities in total defence. How are the universities and students affected by the new security policy situation? How would the education sector function during war and crisis?

At the end of the season by Högskolepodden Oskar M Wiik talks with Minister of Education Anna Ekström about (all) current political issues.

Together with SFS chairman Linn Svärd, Lars Strannegård & Patrick Amsellem try to put into words what education is and why it is so important.

Aida Hadzialic, Opposition Regional Councilor in Stockholm, on how the region can create the right conditions for all students.

Åsa Romson, former spokesperson for the Green Party, talks about her role as a university teacher and researcher. Are there any common denominators between being a top politician and an educator?

Sanna Wolk, SULF's new union president, tells why it took ten years to get a permanent job as an academic, about how the new Migration Act threatens research and about how equal the research world really is.

Torbjörn Nilsson, perhaps one of the country's most prominent political reporters, is a guest Högskolepoddens ninth section to tell about the university's political history.

Karin Röding has been a power factor in the Swedish higher education sector for many years. What changes has she seen from within the machinery? And where are we going?

Student housing is only getting more and more expensive - how do we get prices down?

In this section, we talk about accessibility and broader participation in higher education

In this section, SFS meets presidium Center Party party leader Annie Lööf.

In this episode, Linn and Simon from SFS meet presidium Samuel Engblom who is Head of Social Policy at TCO

In this episode, Linn and Simon from SFS meet presidium Marita Hilliges, Secretary General of SUHF, and Stefan Bengtsson, Rector of Chalmers University of Technology and former. vice chairman of SUHF.

In this section, SFS meets presidium, Linn and Simon, Gunilla Svantorp who is the Chairman of the Education Committee. They talk about the research bill, Corona and honorary awards, among other things.

In the first episode, we get to meet SFS current presidium: Simon Edström and Linn Svärd. We get to know them as presidium and they talk about what can be expected from future episodes.