Wednesday presented Minister Torbjørn Røe Isaksen (H) gist seats forthcoming White Paper on Structure in higher education.
The Minister will have, inter alia fewer higher education in Norway. He believes there are too many “small and vulnerable” disciplines “and that several colleges are too small to continue alone. Therefore urged them to voluntarily seek merger partners. Many have found together, and the result of free contractions so far is that 14 institutions are five. Ten of today’s colleges may disappear. Among other things, NTNU Norway’s largest university when today NTNU joins schools in Oslo, Ålesund and Gurgaon.
How to assess colleges
At a press conference said Røe Isaksen that the Ministry has rated universities and colleges results in a number of areas. This forms the basis of whether they can continue on their own:
- Number of employees with a PhD or equivalent.
- The number of applicants per. admission
- The number of students who complete the prescribed time
- Students timeliness
- Publication of new research
- External research income
- Size of doctoral programs
- International cooperation
- Working with community
The future of 13 of today’s colleges and universities will be settled on the basis of these criteria.
This is schools in Molde, Bergen, Oslo, Lillehammer, Oslo and Akershus, Sogn og Fjordane, Volda, Østfold, NHH, Norwegian School of Sports Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences and Universities College and Oslo.
The government is not the minimum of what is good quality for the various criteria, but they are part of an overall assessment. Some colleges scores consistently low.
– Some colleges do not have a good enough clarified place in the new structure. Based on the quality criteria the government will continue dialogues with schools that are not solid enough to remain independent. Governments will particularly look at the structure of western Norway to find good solutions there, says Minister in a press release.
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In its political platform, said Solberg government moratorium for new universities “until new university mushrooms corrections are evaluated.” Since “frislippet” of university title in 2003, namely the number of universities has doubled and several have given the new universities a b-stamp.
Colleges may be universities again
In structure the message opens Minister to uproot the university again, but he sharpens the requirements.
Colleges will be university must prove that they have at least 15 students per doctoral program over time. They must also demonstrate that at least two of the doctoral programs utesaminerer average of five candidates over a three year period. In addition, as of today, have a college that will uproot offer doctoral education in four subjects alone.
Meanwhile, Minister come with stringent requirements to create master’s and doctoral programs.
From 2003 could get colleges call themselves universities if they acquired four doctoral degrees, and after ten years the number had doubled Norwegian educational institutions to eight. Meanwhile beat colleges with university aspirations, such as schools in Oslo and Akershus together and came closer to the goal. Other colleges became part of a university. Being university does not give more money but status. It becomes easier to attract students, researchers and partners.
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