Many of the documents referred to on this page exist in Norwegian only. The page provides links to documents that exist in English and a brief reference in English (title, author and occasion) for the remainder.
2010
A New Paradigm for Quality Assurance? (The new learning outcome orientation)
[Jon Haakstad]
Paper and presentation at the 5th Quality Assurance Forum in Lyon, November 2010.
Does size matter? The Norwegian HE landscape in change
[Ole-Jacob Skodvin and Bjørn R. Stensby]
Paper and presentattion at the 32th EAIR Forum in Valencia, October 2010
2009
Developments in the Norwegian model for quality assurance in higher education and the role of NOKUT
[Terje Mørland]
Presented at ECA seminar on ‘Changing systems’ 10 December 2009.
Lessons from NOKUT’s external quality assurance of doctoral programmes
[Stein Erik Lid]
Presented 2 December 2009 at a seminar with the title: ‘What characterises good doctoral education?’ Available only in Norwegian.
External quality assurance in the EHEA: quo vadis?
[Jon Haakstad]
Presented at the 4th European Quality Assurance Forum in Copenhagen, 19 – 21 November 2009 and printed in EUA Case Studies 2010: Creativity and Diversity: Challenges for Quality Assurance Beyond 2010.
Quality in doctoral education
[Terje Mørland]
Talk given at a national seminar on the administration of doctoral education.
Foreign academic qualifications – a risk when recruiting?
[Ida Lønne]
Article in the Norwegian publication Sikkerhet, no. 1/ 2009, where the theme was economic crime. Available only in Norwegian.
2007
Expert knowledge
[G. H. Aas, B. Askling, F. Blichfeldt, W. Froestad, K. Hofgaard Lycke, O. E. Rakkestad]
All NOKUT evaluations are carried out by external expert panels. The project ‘Expert Knowledge’ addresses the role and conditions of expert panels and discusses the status of the knowledge they produce.
Other articles and presentations are only available in Norwegian.
Workshop on teacher education in the Nordic countries
[Haug, Askling, Bjarnadóttir, Hansén, Rasmussen, Skagen]
The aim of the project was to collect expert views from the Nordic countries in connection with a planned comparative study of Nordic teacher education programmes under the auspices of the Nordic Ministerial Council, on the background of evaluations of the national programmes in Denmark (2003), Sweden (2005) and Norway (2006) and a recent reform in Finland. Articles and presentations are only available in Norwegian.
Nordic experiences with audits - possibilities and limitations
[Wenche Froestad et al.]
Paper presented at the 2007 EAIR Forum, Innsbruck, Austria that discusses Nordic systems and experiences with audits.
Mutual recognition of accreditation decisions; ECA Code of Good Practice
[Tove Blytt Holmen]
Paper presented at a conference on the accreditation of south-eastern European higher education in Croatia.
The interface between the Research Council and NOKUT; areas of future coordination and cooperation
[Tove Blytt Holmen]
Talk given at the Ministry of Research and Education’s mini-seminar on discipline reviews. Available only in Norwegian.
Opportunities for international cooperation in the field of tertiary vocational education
[Tove Blytt Holmen]
Talk given at the Ministry of Research and Education’s conference at Oslo University College on internationalisation and international cooperation in secondary education and tertiary vocational education. Available only in Norwegian.
2006
Quality begins at home
[Gro Hanne Aas and Jon Haakstad]
Paper presented at the 1st European Forum for Quality Assurance in Munich, November 2006. Printed in the Bologna Handbook 2007
Quality Reform and learning quality; the role of libraries in the learning process
[Oddvar Haugland]
Talk given at a meeting of the studies and library committees of the Council of Universities and Colleges. Available only in Norwegian.
Quality tellers: The status of knowledge produced by expert panels assessing educational quality
[Gro Hanne Aas, Berit Askling, Frode Blichfeldt, Wenche Froestad, Kirsten Hofgaard Lycke and Ole Espen Rakkestad]
Paper presented at the 2006 EAIR Forum in Rome, Italy.
Accreditation and quality assurance – accreditation as quality assurance; a skeptical view
[Jon Haakstad]
Paper presented at the International Conference on the Legal Aspects of Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Salzburg, Austria in May 2006
The quality assurance system in Higher Education in Norway
[Oddvar Haugland]
Article in Handbuch Qualität und Lehre
Implementing quality assurance standards in the European Higher Education Area – the way forward
[Oddvar Haugland]
Presentation to a conference in Santander, Spain
2005
Library, educational quality and NOKUT
[Oddvar Haugland]
Talk at the opening of the new campus of the Norwegian School of Management BI. Available only in Norwegian.
Recognition of education for refugees with insufficient documentation; the Norwegian implementation of the Lisbon Convention, Article VII
[Marit Egner]
Presentation at the EAIE Conference 2005 in Krakow, Poland
- Read the presentation (pdf)
Essay from the control tower: quality in the times of the Quality Reform
[Jon Haakstad]
Article printed in UNIPED, no. 2/2005. Available only in Norwegian.
Quality audits in Norway
[Jon Haakstad]
Outline of presentation given to a seminar hosted by the Finnish Ministry of Education in Helsinki, February 2005
- Read he presentation outline
Building quality assurance systems in Norwegian institutions of higher education: Some helpful hints
[Jon Haakstad]
Available only in Norwegian.
2004
Quality development – Norway in Europe
[Oddvar Haugland]
Talk given at an international information seminar on the Bologna process in Bergen, 2004.
- Read the presentation (pdf)
Higher education accreditation in the United States and China
[Koenig and Lofstad]
Presented at the EAIE Conference 2004
- Koenig: Slide presentation (ppt)
- Lofstad: Handout text (pdf)
- Lofstad: Slide presentation (ppt)
Higher education in the People’s Republic of China
[Ingrid Quing Xu Bjørkly]
Presentation at the EAIE Conference 2004
- Read Slide presentation (ppt)
Criteria for Evaluation of Tertiary Vocational Eduaction
[Moland Wahl]
Talk given at a conference on the quality assurance of informal language courses, Oslo
- Read the presentation (pdf)
Making a case for a slim audit
[Gro Hanne Aas, Jon Haakstad & al.]
Paper presented at the EAIR Forum 2004
Methodological common instruments for assessment and accreditation in the European framework
[Oddvar Haugland]
Talk given at a Bologna seminar in Santanter, Spain, 2004