John Andersson, 10/11/2014 20:48:

we have recently started providing them with research assignment for students' thesis work (to work on for either during 10 weeks (Bachelor) or 20 weeks (Master)). As a small pilot I gave a presentation about this a couple of weeks ago and we have seen a great interest in this opportunity from staff and student

Interesting! But, sorry for the stupid questions, how can this work? Are you talking of thesis as in final work for the degree? Does it mean the student can decide the thesis on their own? What does the staff have to do with it? How are external entities allowed to propose theses? https://studyinsweden.se/study-information/degree-programmes/masters-studies... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesis#Sweden are not particularly useful to explain.

In Italy the bachelor/master thesis is in practice proposed by the prof./teacher and the university staff has no say whatsoever in it. (Let alone the state; that would even be against the constitution, probably.)

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