Thoroddur Bjarnason

The project aimed to assess the impacts of Icelandic universities on regional development and to map their regional effects outside the capital area. It considered both universities and university centres outside Reykjavík and the Reykjavík universities that serve students nationwide through on-campus and distance education. The project provided an overview of the development of higher education in Iceland in relation to regional development and the evolution of the Icelandic school system since the late nineteenth century, mapped universities’ catchment areas, and assessed their impacts on regional educational attainment.

The project leader was Thoroddur Bjarnason and the project officer was Kolbrún Ósk Baldursdóttir. Other participants included:

• Brynhildur Þórarinsdóttir, Associate Professor at the University of Akureyri.
• Ingi Rúnar Eðvarðsson, Professor at the University of Iceland.
• Ingólfur Arnarson, Professor at Bifröst University.
• Skúli Skúlason, Professor at the Hólar University.

• Þóroddur Bjarnason og Brynhildur Þórarinsdóttir. 2018. The effects of regional and distance education on the supply of qualified teachers in rural Iceland. Sociologia Ruralis, 58, 786–804. doi.org/10.1111/soru.12185
• Þóroddur Bjarnason. 2018. Staðsetning háskóla og menntabil í háskólamenntun. Netla, 16(1). doi.org/10.24270/netla.2018.1
• Þóroddur Bjarnason og Ingi Rúnar Eðvarðsson. 2017. University pathways of urban and rural migration in Iceland. Journal of Rural Studies, 54, 244–254. doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.07.001
• Þóroddur Bjarnason, Ingi Rúnar Eðvarðsson, Ingólfur Arnarson, Skúli Skúlason og Kolbrún Ósk Baldursdóttir. 2016. Svæðisbundin áhrif íslenskra háskóla. Tímarit um uppeldi og menntun, 25, 265–287. ojs.hi.is

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