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News from the VH Faculty Board 19 October
Published: 13 October 2022
There were several recruitment issues on the agenda at the 19 October meeting. Other items on the agenda were fundraising, the expansion project and the recently launched evaluation of the degree programme in veterinary medicine.
The finacial situation
Faculty Financial Officer Inger Alderborn gave the board a picture of the financial situation at the faculty for quarter 3. A decision was made on the principles for the allocation of grants.
Recruitments
The board decided to initiate the recruitment of a professor of small animal surgery at the Department of Clinical Sciences, provided the vice-chancellor agrees.
Furthermore, the board decided on the recruitment of six university lecturers. The recruitments are motivated, among other things, by SLU is going to increase the number of students in the Veterinary program and the Animal Nursing program, which means that certain subjects need to be reinforced with university lecturers. The need for these recruitments has previously been identified during the faculty board’s work on the long-term supply of skills. The Steering Committee for the Expansion Project has prioritized these six recruitments as part of 16 new senior positions funded by government grants within the framework of the project.
The board further decided to recruit lecturers in the following subjects: pig medicine (KV), poultry medicine (KV), veterinary virology (BVF), food safety (BVF), veterinary parasitology (BVF) and veterinary bacteriology (BVF).
The expansion and integration projects
Project Manager Anders Bjurstam and Deputy Dean Johanna Penell gave an update on the expansion project. [in Swedish only]
Dean Rauni Niskanen followed up with an update on the integration project.
Evaluation of the Veterinary Medicine degree programme
Head of Department Ivar Vågsholm informed the board of the recently launched evaluation of the Veterinary Medicine programme. Ivar Vågsholm is in charge of the work done at SLU and the contact point for EAEVE, the body that will take a decision on programme accreditation.