Universities play a much greater role in continuing education today than they did ten years ago. Education experts Anke Hanft and Karsten Speck talk about the changes in Germany's higher education system and look ahead to future challenges.

Joint outlook for the future: following the recent renewal of their cooperation agreement, the Universities of Oldenburg and Groningen have drawn up a strategy paper setting out the key focus areas for their fifth decade of cooperation.

The Universities of Groningen and Oldenburg have been cooperating for 40 years. In an interview, the two presidents Jouke de Vries and Hans Michael Piper talk about cross-border cooperation and pay tribute to the special relationship.

The aim of a new mentoring programme at the university is to support young female academics on their path. Annett Thiele, Vice President for Early Career Researchers and Equal Opportunities, explains the background to the programme.

Individual and online-supported - this is how Anke Hanft, Academic Director of the Centre for Lifelong Learning (C3L) at the University of Oldenburg, sees the future of academic teaching and further education. In this interview, she explains why the changing world of work is also affecting…

Inaugural visit by Björn Thümler to the university: Lower Saxony's Science Minister emphasised the central role of the OFFIS research institute in the state's digitalisation offensive. The university's position in medical training will be further strengthened by the expansion of study places at the…

From educational research to environmental information systems: In this interview, Vice President Esther Ruigendijk and Jenka Schmidt, Head of the International Student Office, talk about why the university's diverse co-operations with universities in South Africa are important.

The University of Oldenburg has cleared the first hurdle in the Excellence Strategy, the successor programme to the Excellence Initiative of the German federal and state governments: The "Hearing4all: Research for personalised treatment of hearing deficits" cluster of excellence proposal has been…

Great success for the University of Oldenburg and Jade University of Applied Sciences: the joint transfer project "Innovative University Jade-Oldenburg!" has been approved in the "Innovative University" funding initiative - the only one in Lower Saxony. The funding amounts to up to 13 million euros.

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research is driving forward the reform of higher education, teaching and further education. Oldenburg experts Anke Hanft and Annika Maschwitz are providing scientific support for the multi-billion euro project. An interview.

"German universities are horrified by the current developments at Turkish universities. The deep, apparently unscrupulous cuts to academic freedoms by the Turkish government leave us all stunned. We protest against these actions in the strongest possible terms," said the President of the German…

The educational scientist and former acting president of the University of Oldenburg, Prof. Dr Hans-Dietrich Raapke, passed away on 10 February 2016 at the age of 87.

More professorships, more grants, more projects: With its growing success, the University of Oldenburg is reaching its spatial limits. Jörg Stahlmann, Vice President for Administration, talks about state regulations - and solutions.

Open Access - worldwide, convenient and free access to scientific knowledge on the Internet: The university shares this goal with more than 500 other scientific and science-related institutions and organisations. It now has its own guidelines for open access publishing.

For the first time in more than 40 years of university history, the RCDS, which is considered conservative, is the strongest parliamentary group in the student parliament. However, the new AStA remains "at the back left" in the cafeteria foyer - a visit.

Rethinking education without abandoning the tried and tested: On the initiative of the University of Oldenburg, experts discussed the educational mission of the university at Herrenhausen Palace in Hanover. An interview with the Rector of the University of Siegen and Vice President of the German…

Is our education system too rigid, too sluggish? On the initiative of the University of Oldenburg, experts will be holding a discussion at Herrenhausen Palace in Hanover on 19 May. An interview with initiator Katharina Al-Shamery, acting president, about the aims and background to the event.

The Universitätsgesellschaft Oldenburg e.V. (UGO), which is one of the largest of its kind in Germany with over 1,000 members, is once again offering an extensive and varied programme for all those interested in science and culture this year.

The Presidential Board of the University of Oldenburg wants to initiate a debate on fundamental questions of university education with a series of colloquia. The title of the event is: "Teaching universities for the masses and research universities for the elite - what is the university's…

"Medical Campus University of Oldenburg" - this is the name that the Evangelical Hospital Oldenburg, the Oldenburg Clinical Centre, the Pius Hospital Oldenburg and the Karl Jaspers Clinic in Bad Zwischenahn will be able to use exclusively in future. This is regulated by an agreement that was…