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  • Higher quality maths teaching

    Published Mar 29, 2012

    Improvements on the maths department have started to bear fruit. New seminars which activate the students and a clearer focus on problem solving have improved the quality of the teaching for study year 1. This autumn, all the new students will be able to notice the improvements, according to the mathematics teacher Mats Boij.

  • “We aspire to be a top university”

    Published Mar 28, 2012

    Increased interaction with society, the business community and other universities both in Sweden and other countries. That will take KTH to a top position among the European universities. Vision 2027 provides direction for the work over the next 15 years.

  • Teachers in Chemistry are sharing equally

    Published Mar 13, 2012

    More professors and researchers at the School of Chemical Science and Engineering have started to become involved in the teaching. The background is the new staffing system, which led to a more equitable distribution of teaching assignments. The collective responsibility for the education is increasing the quality of the courses, according to those responsible for the reform.

  • Reawakening for local environmental work

    Published Feb 20, 2012

    Over a period of three years, a new, certifiable system designed to manage environmental issues will be built at KTH. This focus has led to a reawakening of the environmental work and has provided the environmental delegates with a clearer role. “We are far more focused now. And we have a holistic approach, previously it was more of an ad hoc effort,” says Holger Berling, environmental delegate at Biotechnology.

  • “Managers must be able to listen”

    Published Feb 13, 2012

    In order to lead, we must be able to listen. To be sensitive to what drives individuals is the most important consideration in order to become a good leader Katja Grillner believes, who has received the KTH prize for academic leadership.

  • Greater satisfaction among employees

    Published Feb 06, 2012

    “I look forward to going to work.” 75 per cent of the respondents of the 2011 KTH employee survey agree with this statement. Work motivation is at its peak, despite the fact that the workload is high and KTH as a workplace receives, all in all, improved ratings compared to 2009.

  • “No more regular lectures”

    Published Jan 26, 2012

    Fredrik Lundell no longer stands behind his desk and he has scrapped his old lecturing methods. Instead, he inspires his students to discuss and participate actively in the learning process. For this, he has been awarded the prize Teacher of the Year at KTH.

  • A global network will strengthen KTH’s influence

    Published Jan 18, 2012

    KTH has started to work with some of the world’s most prestigious universities in a new global network. The network, the Dean’s Forum, will strengthen KTH’s ability to influence the political agenda, for example within the EU.

  • Good reputation but too many dropping out

    Published Jan 12, 2012

    Education at KTH has a good reputation and graduate students are coveted on the employment market. But the throughput on several of the educational programmes is weak, the role of those responsible for the programmes must be clarified and mathematics must be developed. These are some of the overall conclusions following KTH’s major assessment of its educational programmes.

  • Freedom for researchers behind the success

    Published Dec 16, 2011

    Several educational programmes at the University of Illinois are ranked in the top ten in the USA. The university has also nurtured many of the world’s leading profiles within the IT industry. One explanation for the success of KTH’s new partner is that we have succeeded in combining the best from the private and the public universities’ different worlds.

  • Master’s students curious about Stockholm

    Published Dec 13, 2011

    A windy Saturday during Advent, and Olga from Russia, Youbei Jin from China and a dozen other Master’s students trudged their way through the centre of Stockholm, from the Main Square to Sergel’s Square. The city walk is part of an introductory course for international Master’s students.

  • Donation rescued computer science

    Published Dec 07, 2011

    When computer science grew explosively in the 1990s, emergency needs arose locally for computer education at the University of Illinois. An intensive fundraising campaign came to the rescue. IT billionaire and alumnus Thomas Siebel donated USD 32 million to the construction of the world-famous Siebel Center.

  • Cooperation is growing between the Nordic universities

    Published Dec 05, 2011

    The Nordic University Alliance Nordic Five Tech has so far started up five joint Master's programmes. The next step may be to open up the universities' postgraduate courses as well, this was discussed during a meeting between the Nordic Presidents at KTH. “KTH is involved in many collaborations, but this is one of the most important,” says KTH President Peter Gudmundson.

  • "We are interested in KTH's progress"

    Published Nov 16, 2011

    A long tradition of interdisciplinary work. Besides creative research environments, excellent researchers and the fact that there are so many touch points in research. These are probably some of the reasons why KTH's researchers will benefit so much from the cooperation with the University of Illinois.

  • Nerdy film clips equals new engineers

    Published Nov 08, 2011

    He is a professor that has more viewers than CNN's biggest TV profile. And he has done it by dissecting hard disks and disassembling LCD screens on YouTube. Meet one of the University of Illinois' biggest celebrities, William Hammack, also known as The Engineer Guy.

  • KTH's new professors meet the public

    Published Oct 27, 2011

    Everybody is welcome to the event Professors for the Future which will be held at KTH on 17 November. This is when people will be able to meet KTH's new professors and honorary doctors, to hear their thoughts on the future of current areas of research.

  • Susanne's best time in Illinois

    Published Oct 14, 2011

    The best thing I've done in my entire life. So says Susanne Forchheimer, KTH's first exchange student in Urbana-Champaign. But it has not been an easy journey.

  • Like KTH – but more and bigger

    Published Oct 11, 2011

    Naturally, there is quite a lot that differentiates the University of Illinois from KTH, but the similarities are just as many. At the same time, the University of Illinois has a comprehensive perspective with a major focus on interdisciplinary projects. This is how some of the faculty members regard interdisciplinarity and the cooperation opportunities with KTH:

  • Exchange students are impressed by the trust

    Published Oct 10, 2011

    The exchange student Danylo Hirnyj is one of the first visible results of the strategic cooperation with the University of Illinois. In the beginning, he was considering studying in Lund, but KTH's agreement with Illinois University made him think again.

  • "Enticing to become the first environmental manager"

    Published Sep 26, 2011

    KTH now has an environmental manager. Johan Sundqvist was attracted by the fact that he would be involved from the start in a major commitment for the environment. The ambition is that the environmental work will be excellent – just as excellent as the other activities at the University.