A recent publication sheds light on the relationship between a firm’s productivity, size and objectives for innovations. Whether ‘it pays to be green’ or not, seems to depend on firm size.

Based on the OECD survey PIAAC, several NIFU researchers have published articles in the latest special issue of International Journal of Lifelong Education about work-related training and workplace learning.

Citations are increasingly used as performance indicators in research policy and within the research system. In a new article it is argued that citations reflect aspects related to scientific impact but not to other key dimensions of research quality.

Highly productive and highly cited units are found among both small, medium and large departments.

The effect of a reduced pupil-teacher ratio has mainly been investigated as that of reduced class size, but there are other methods of reducing the ratio. One alternative approach is to deploy additional teachers in selected subjects.

What can we learn from systematic reviews? What role does this play in educational research and policy design and what are the advantages and disadvantages of using different types of knowledge insights?

Despite international and domestic reforms in higher education in the past decades, results indicate a gap between macro-level policy-making and its implementation at micro-level.

The access policy and practice of using grades as a measure of merit in Norway is judged as fair – or, as fair as is possible in such a system.

Welcome to breakfast meeting with Tekna Biotek in collaboration with SusValueWaste and NIFU! This morning you will get to know more about the possibilities for biotech in the brewery industry.

Between 2000 and 2015, Norway has experienced a large increase in the number of international students compared with many other countries. This may seem paradoxical considering that Norway is a country with few well-known universities, a high cost of living, and a geographical location on the northern fringe of Europe.