Vice Rector for Education at OsloMet Silje Fekjær.
Simplifies the quality system for education
The University Board at OsloMet has adopted a revised quality system for education.
Notable simplifications have been made to the quality system.
Vice Rector for Education Silje Fekjær is very pleased that OsloMet’s revised quality system for education is now in place.
“The aim has been to develop a quality system for education that contributes to real improvements in our study programmes, and does not become a box-ticking exercise carried out once a year simply because reporting is required,” says Fekjær.
OsloMet’s current quality system for education is extensive, with a high number of indicators that must be reported on.
“I hope and believe that we will now have a quality system that helps us identify the areas where we truly need to make improvements, and that it is linked to the ongoing day-to-day development work taking place in the study programmes,” Fekjær says.
The revised quality system for education will apply from the start of the academic year in August, and most users of the system will notice changes in their daily work.
The most important changes are:
- Course coordinators will no longer be required to write course reports. The current course reports will be discontinued.
- Courses will nevertheless continue to be evaluated by students each time they are offered.
- Semester evaluations may replace course evaluations.
- Staff and elected student representatives may draw the programme coordinator’s attention to challenges that cannot be resolved at course level by submitting a course note. This arrangement is intended to ensure that problems are identified and followed up.
- Mandatory anonymous final evaluations will be discontinued.
- Reporting at programme level and higher up in the organisation will primarily take place every other year, combined with two-year development plans.
- Thematic reporting will be discontinued, giving academic communities greater freedom to work on the areas they themselves identify as needing development.
- At programme level, regular meetings will be held with course coordinators, with a focus on study quality and the learning environment.
- Emphasis is placed on quality work taking place within the academic communities – through dialogue, reflection and collaboration. This applies at course, programme and department level.
You can read the full board case and view the revised quality assurance system here (opengov.com). The text is in norwegian.
More detailed information will be provided before the revised quality assurance system enters into force on 1 August 2026.
Read also:
The quality assurance of education (oslomet.no)
(This text has been translated with the use of Microsoft Copilot. The text has been quality assured by OsloMet.)
