The Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education, NOKUT is a Norwegian government agency, established in 2003 as part of the

Quality Reform The Quality Reform was a reform initialized by the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research after recommendation from the '' Mjøs committee'' (1998–2000). It was introduced in 2002–03 and changed the entire system of higher education in N ...

. Its areas of responsibility include quality assessment of

Norwegian universities __NOTOC__ This list of universities in Norway presents the country's universities, giving their locations, abbreviated titles (in Norwegian), and years of establishment. Most universities in Norway are state universities. Denmark-Norway only had ...

, university colleges and

colleges A college (Latin: ''collegium'') is an educational institution or a constituent part of one. A college may be a degree-awarding tertiary educational institution, a part of a collegiate or federal university, an institution offerin ...

of tertiary

vocational education Vocational education is education that prepares people to work as a technician or to take up employment in a skilled craft or trade as a tradesperson or artisan. Vocational Education can also be seen as that type of education given to an ind ...

, and assessment of foreign

higher education Higher education is tertiary education leading to award of an academic degree. Higher education, also called post-secondary education, third-level or tertiary education, is an optional final stage of formal learning that occurs after completi ...

. NOKUT has 76 employees, and its director is Terje Mørland. Each year since 2014, NOKUT has been collecting

survey data Survey methodology is "the study of survey methods". As a field of applied statistics concentrating on human-research surveys, survey methodology studies the sampling of individual units from a population and associated techniques of survey dat ...

from the national student survey ''Studiebarometeret'' which measures the perceived quality of education for study programmes offered by the higher education institutions in

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Personal feedback and advising in Norwegian higher education: Explaining student dissatisfaction
September 2015

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{{authority control Government agencies of Norway Higher education accreditation Quality assurance organizations Education in Norway Government agencies established in 2003