Statutory duties in the education sector
The content of the file was generated with Claude Opus 5.5 using Digdir’s MCP server against Lovdata’s API. The file contains statutory duties (and some voluntary tasks) broken down by education level and by who is responsible for the tasks. Every task is linked to the act or regulation where it is covered, and to the section where the task is described. The document contains tasks that belong to public bodies and educational institutions. A manual check has been made of the municipality’s tasks related to kindergartens. Some adjustments were needed here, and some tasks that were missing have been added, but there is nothing to suggest hallucinations, and nothing has had to be removed because it was not covered in the law. These changes are marked in the column “Reviewed manually”. The assessment is therefore that the list may be somewhat inaccurate and that some details may be missing, but that what is in the list can also be found in the legal texts. For the purpose related to domain models, the quality of the list is considered good enough.
| Education level | Responsible level | Specific actor | Task | Section | Act/regulation | Link | Industry/sector | Note | Reviewed manually |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality | Coordinate services between service providers where cooperation is necessary to give the child a comprehensive and coordinated service offering | § 2b | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Yes, changed | ||
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality (kindergarten authority) | Kindergarten authority: guide and ensure that kindergartens are run in accordance with the Act and its regulations | § 10 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Exception: Chapter V of the Act, requirements for the use of public grants and parental payment in private kindergartens etc. | Yes, note added | |
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality (kindergarten authority) | Kindergarten authority: Duty to offer a kindergarten place to children below compulsory school age who are resident in the municipality | § 10 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Details in $16 | Yes, section moved to note | |
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality (kindergarten authority) | Kindergarten authority: Responsibility for ensuring that Sami children’s kindergarten provision in Sami districts is based on Sami language/culture | § 10 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Yes, changed | ||
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality (kindergarten authority) | Kindergarten authority: Responsibility for ensuring that municipalities outside Sami districts make arrangements so that Sami children in kindergartens can secure and develop their language and culture | $10 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Added manually | ||
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality (kindergarten authority) | Kindergarten authority: Keep a register for use by the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) when checking the calculation and payment of cash-for-care benefit | § 10 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Yes, slightly expanded | ||
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality (kindergarten authority) | Treat private and municipal kindergartens equally in the role of kindergarten authority | § 11 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Yes, slightly expanded | ||
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality (kindergarten authority) | Decide on establishment approval of private kindergartens | § 14 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Details in $1, $1a and §2 | Yes, rewritten | |
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality (kindergarten authority) | Decide on operating approval of municipal and private kindergartens | §14a | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Added manually | ||
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality (kindergarten authority) | Approve the establishment of family kindergartens | § 15 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Yes, changed | ||
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality (kindergarten authority) | Approve changes to approved family kindergartens | § 15 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Added manually | ||
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality (kindergarten authority) | Facilitate a coordinated admission process for kindergarten | § 17 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Yes, rewritten | ||
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality (kindergarten authority) | Ensure equal treatment of children in a coordinated admission process | §17 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Added manually | ||
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality (kindergarten authority) | Ensure equal treatment of municipal and private kindergartens in a coordinated admission process | §17 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Added manually | ||
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality (kindergarten authority) | Ensure that children with a right to priority get a place in kindergarten | § 18 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | disability, certain decisions under the Child Welfare Act | Yes, changed | |
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality (kindergarten authority) | Provide grants to private kindergartens that are entitled to grants and have operating approval. | § 19 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Including: Operating grant, Pension grant, Property grant | Yes, changed and note added | |
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality (kindergarten authority) | May issue regulations on requirements for opening hours for kindergartens in the municipality | §20 a | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Added manually | ||
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality (kindergarten authority) | May grant exemption from staffing requirements for one year at a time when special considerations so warrant. | § 26 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Yes, changed | ||
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality | Order kindergarten employees, or employees who perform pedagogical tasks under the Act, to remove garments that breach the ban on wearing clothing that fully or partially covers the face | §29 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Shared responsibility with the kindergartens | Added manually | |
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality (kindergarten authority) | May require a police certificate for persons who are regularly present in the kindergarten or have significant influence on the kindergarten’s operation | §30 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Shared responsibility with the kindergartens | Yes, changed | |
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality | Fulfil the right to special educational assistance for children resident in the municipality | § 31 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Includes necessary training in the use of augmentative and alternative communication cf. §39 | Yes, changed | |
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality (Educational and Psychological Counselling Service) | Ensure that statutory expert assessments are prepared | §33 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Added manually | ||
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality (Educational and Psychological Counselling Service) | Assist the kindergarten in competence and organisational development to adapt kindergarten provision for children with special needs | §33 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Details in §34 | Added manually | |
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality | Make individual decisions on special educational assistance | §35 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Details in §35 | Added manually | |
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality | Make decisions on the right to transport, necessary escort, supervision and accommodation for children with a right to special educational assistance | § 36 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Yes, split up | ||
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality | Fulfil the right to transport, necessary escort, supervision and accommodation for children with a right to special educational assistance | § 36 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Also applies to children with a right to sign language training, cf. §38 | Added manually | |
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality | Ensure that children with disabilities receive a suitable individually adapted kindergarten provision | § 37 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Does not cover measures that would impose a disproportionate burden on the municipality. Details §37 | Yes, changed | |
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality | Make decisions on adaptation of kindergarten provision for children with disabilities | § 37 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Added manually | ||
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality | Fulfil the right to sign language training for children below compulsory school age who are resident in the municipality | § 38 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Yes, changed | ||
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality | Make decisions on sign language training | §38 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Added manually | ||
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality (Educational and Psychological Counselling Service) | Prepare an expert assessment of the need for sign language training | §38 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Added manually | ||
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality | Comply with decisions by a state administrative body granting a private party the right to services under the chapter on special educational assistance, sign language training etc., even if the decision is declared invalid under the Dispute Act §1-4a | §38 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Added manually | ||
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality (as owner) | Receive reports from the kindergarten head about serious cases of a child not having a safe and good kindergarten environment. | §42 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Yes, changed | ||
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality (as owner) | Receive reports from the kindergarten head that someone working in the kindergarten is violating a child | §43 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Added manually | ||
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality (as owner) | Receive reports from those working in the kindergarten that the kindergarten head is violating a child | §43 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Added manually | ||
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality | Notify child welfare services without undue delay when there is suspicion of circumstances described in §46 a-d | §46 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Added manually | ||
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality | Receive reporting of service data from private kindergartens that is necessary to evaluate, develop and improve the kindergarten sector | §48 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Added manually | ||
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality | Exercise supervision to ensure that kindergartens are run in accordance with the Act (exception: Chapter V) | § 53 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Yes, changed | ||
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality | May order the kindergarten to rectify unsound or unlawful conditions at approved enterprises and enterprises subject to approval. | §53 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Added manually | ||
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality | May decide on temporary or permanent closure of a kindergarten if the deadline of an order is not met or the condition cannot be rectified. | §53 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Added manually | ||
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality | May decide that grants to the kindergarten shall be withheld, reduced or repaid to the municipality if the kindergarten has breached provisions of the Act or regulations issued under the Act. | §53 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Added manually | ||
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality (health clinic) | School health service/health clinic also relevant for kindergarten age | § 3-2 | Health and Care Services Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2011-06-24-30 | |||
| Kindergarten | Municipality | The municipality (environmental health protection) | Approval and supervisory authority for the physical/psychosocial environment in kindergartens | § 19-21 | Regulations on health and environment in kindergartens, schools and after-school programmes | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2023-03-28-449 | |||
| Kindergarten | County authority | The county authority | Fulfil the right to special educational assistance for children in child welfare institutions/health institutions | § 31 fifth paragraph, § 34, § 35 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | County authority | The county authority | Detailed allocation of responsibility for children in institutions | § 5, § 6 | Regulations on responsibility for special educational assistance | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2017-06-22-1050 | |||
| Kindergarten | State | The King | Regulations on the application of the Act on Svalbard | § 52 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | State | The ministry | Framework plan for the content and tasks of kindergartens (regulations) | § 2 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Regulations: FOR-2017-04-24-487 | ||
| Kindergarten | State | The ministry | Regulations on approval, admission, grants, parental payment, staffing etc. | § 14,15,17,19,20,24,25,28,30,31,33,34,38 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | State | The ministry | Regulations on personal data, register of children in kindergartens | § 47, § 47a, § 48, § 48a | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | State | The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training | Provide guidance on Chapter V (grants/parental payment); supervise the finances of private kindergartens | § 13, § 56 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | State | Statsforvalteren | Guidance, appeal body, supervision of municipality/county authority, may exercise direct supervision | § 12, § 13, § 54, § 55 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | State | NAV/Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration | Administer the cash-for-care benefit scheme for children without a kindergarten place | entire act | Cash-for-Care Benefit Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/1998-06-26-41 | |||
| Kindergarten | State | The ministry | Free core hours and reduced-payment schemes, set nationally | § 3c-3e | Regulations on parental payment in kindergartens | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2005-12-16-1478 | |||
| Kindergarten | State | Institutions/the ministry | Framework plan for kindergarten teacher education | entire regulation | Regulations on the framework plan for kindergarten teacher education | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2025-07-04-1447 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten owner | Be responsible for ensuring that the kindergarten is run in accordance with applicable acts and regulations | § 7 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Enterprise responsible for children below compulsory school age | Apply for approval as a kindergarten before operations start | § 6 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Applies when one or more children attend more than 20 hours per week, the number of children present at the same time is ten or more (three years and older) or five or more (under three years), and the activity is carried out for remuneration | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Private kindergartens | Be an independent legal entity | § 7a | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Exception for open kindergartens and for owners with fewer than 30 children in ordinary kindergartens or fewer than 10 in family kindergartens. The ministry may issue regulations on further exceptions | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Municipal and private kindergartens | Be registered with their own organisation number in the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities (Enhetsregisteret) | § 7a | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Municipal and private kindergartens | Have premises and outdoor areas located together | § 7b | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Exception when special considerations warrant them being in different places, and for kindergartens exempt from the requirement to be an independent legal entity | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Municipal and private kindergartens | Have articles of association giving information on ownership, purpose, admission criteria, number of members of the coordinating committee and opening hours | § 8 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten owner | Have internal control to ensure that the requirements of the Act and its regulations are complied with | § 9 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Shall be systematic and adapted to the kindergarten’s size, nature, activities and risk. Covers a description of main tasks, objectives and organisation, routines and procedures, follow-up of deviations, documentation and evaluation | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | The kindergarten | Be a pedagogical enterprise that gives children opportunities for play, self-expression and meaningful experiences and activities | § 2 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | The kindergarten | Take into account the children’s age, level of functioning, gender, social, ethnic and cultural background, including Sami children’s language and culture | § 2 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | The kindergarten | Have a health-promoting and preventive function and contribute to reducing social inequalities | § 2 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | The coordinating committee (for each kindergarten) | Adopt an annual plan for the pedagogical activities based on the framework plan | § 2 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | The content of the framework plan (FOR-2017-04-24-487) has not been read. The text is only a stub in the database | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten owner | May adapt the framework plan to local conditions | § 2 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Permission, not a duty | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | The kindergarten | Ensure children’s right to participation: regular opportunity to take part in planning and evaluating the activities, and give weight to the child’s views according to age and maturity | § 3 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | The kindergarten | Make the best interests of the child a fundamental consideration in all actions and decisions concerning children in the kindergarten | § 3 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | The kindergarten and PPT (Educational and Psychological Counselling Service) | Cooperate with other service providers when necessary for a comprehensive and coordinated service offering, and take part in cooperation on the child’s individual plan | § 2b | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | The kindergarten | Let children who fully or partially lack functional speech use suitable forms of communication and necessary means of communication (AAC) | § 39 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Assumed/believed: the statutory text says the children shall be allowed to use this in the kindergarten, but does not name the actor explicitly | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | The kindergarten | Have a parents’ council and a coordinating committee | § 4 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten owner | Ensure that matters of importance are submitted to the parents’ council and the coordinating committee | § 4 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten owner | Obtain consent from the parents’ council and present documentation that makes it possible to verify the conditions, before parental payment is set above the maximum limit | § 4 | Regulations on parental payment in kindergartens | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2005-12-16-1478 | Applies only if the kindergarten would otherwise be closed for financial reasons or quality would otherwise be affected. Also authorised by the Kindergarten Act § 4. New consent is required for significant changes to the maximum limit | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten owner | Not set parental payment higher than the maximum limit (food may be added) | § 1 | Regulations on parental payment in kindergartens | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2005-12-16-1478 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten owner | Set parental payment for part-time places lower than for full-time places | § 2 | Regulations on parental payment in kindergartens | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2005-12-16-1478 | A part-time place is an agreed attendance time of less than 41 hours per week | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | The kindergarten | Receive a statement on the child’s health before the child starts, so that the kindergarten can make arrangements for the child | § 50 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | The statement may be given by the parents if the child has attended ordinary check-ups at the health clinic | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten owner | Ensure sound pedagogical and administrative management | § 24 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten owner | Have a manager with education as a kindergarten teacher or other university college education providing child-related and pedagogical competence | § 24 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten owner | Ensure that pedagogical leaders have kindergarten teacher education or equivalent education | § 25 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Equivalent means other three-year pedagogical education at university college level with further education in kindergarten pedagogy | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten owner | Ensure sufficient staffing for the staff to run satisfactory pedagogical activities | § 26 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten owner | Have at least one employee per three children under three years and one employee per six children over three years (basic staffing) | § 26 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Children count as over three years from August of the year they turn three | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten owner | Have at least one pedagogical leader per seven children under three years and one per 14 children over three years (pedagogical staffing) | § 1 | Regulations on pedagogical staffing and exemptions in kindergartens | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2017-06-22-1049 | One additional child triggers the requirement for a new full-time position. The kindergarten head’s time for administration and management is not included. Converted full-time places are used when more than half the children attend for less than six hours per day | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten owner | Have a kindergarten head who has daily contact with and follow-up of each kindergarten | § 4 | Regulations on pedagogical staffing and exemptions in kindergartens | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2017-06-22-1049 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten owner | May cooperate on, or share, the kindergarten head resource with other kindergartens, exceptionally also with a school | § 4 | Regulations on pedagogical staffing and exemptions in kindergartens | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2017-06-22-1049 | Permission, not a duty. Must not reduce the kindergarten head resource for each kindergarten or compromise quality | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten owner | May apply to the municipality for exemption from the staffing requirement and enclose a statement from the coordinating committee | § 26 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Permission. Exemption is granted for up to one year at a time. See also regulations on pedagogical staffing § 2 | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten owner | May apply to the municipality for exemption from the education requirement or the Norwegian language requirement for the kindergarten head and pedagogical leader, if the position has been publicly advertised without a qualified applicant | § 3 | Regulations on pedagogical staffing and exemptions in kindergartens | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2017-06-22-1049 | Permission. Exemption applies only to the person and the position applied for | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten owner | Ensure that permanent or temporary employees with a first language other than Norwegian or Sami have passed a Norwegian test (A2 written, B1 in the other sub-tests) | § 27 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Exceptions among other things for kindergartens offering another language, persons who had Norwegian at school, five years’ experience from a Norwegian-language kindergarten or school, and Swedish or Danish as first language. The owner may employ without the requirement if it is pedagogically sound | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten owner | Require the kindergarten head and pedagogical leader with foreign professional qualifications to document Norwegian skills at level B2 | § 28 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | The owner may accept other documentation. The requirement does not apply to persons with Norwegian, Sami, Swedish or Danish as first language | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten owner | Ensure that employees do not wear garments that fully or partially cover the face during working hours | § 29 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Shared responsibility with the municipality. The owner or the municipality shall order removal of the garment. Repeated breaches may constitute grounds for dismissal. Exceptions for climatic, pedagogical, health or safety reasons | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten owner | Require anyone to be employed on a permanent or temporary basis to present a police certificate before starting work | § 30 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | See also Regulations on police certificates in kindergartens § 2 | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten owner | May require a police certificate from others who are regularly present in the kindergarten or have significant influence on its operation | § 30 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Permission. Shared with the municipality as kindergarten authority. Emphasis shall be placed on whether the person may be in direct contact with the children | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten owner | Not employ persons convicted of sexual abuse of minors, and assess specifically the consequences of other remarks on the certificate | § 5 | Regulations on police certificates in kindergartens | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2015-11-11-1285 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten owner | Make applicants aware in the job advertisement that a police certificate is required, require a certificate only from the person offered the position, and make the offer subject to the reservation that remarks may change it | § 4 | Regulations on police certificates in kindergartens | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2015-11-11-1285 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten owner | Require that the police certificate is no more than three months old | § 3 | Regulations on police certificates in kindergartens | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2015-11-11-1285 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten owner | Store the police certificate out of reach of unauthorised persons and destroy it immediately after use | § 7 | Regulations on police certificates in kindergartens | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2015-11-11-1285 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten staff | Undergo tuberculosis screening in accordance with applicable regulations | § 50 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten owner | Make the kindergarten available for practical training of students in kindergarten teacher education | § 51 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten head and pedagogical leaders | Guide students in practical training | § 51 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | The kindergarten and everyone working in the kindergarten | Not accept violations such as exclusion, bullying, violence, discrimination and harassment, and intervene when a child is subjected to such violations | § 41 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | The kindergarten | Prevent children from not having a safe and good kindergarten environment by working continuously to promote the children’s health, well-being, play and learning | § 41 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Everyone working in the kindergarten | Monitor how the children are doing | § 42 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Everyone working in the kindergarten | Notify the kindergarten head if they suspect or know that a child does not have a safe and good kindergarten environment | § 42 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten head | Notify the kindergarten owner in serious cases where a child does not have a safe and good kindergarten environment | § 42 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | The kindergarten | Investigate the matter as soon as possible if it suspects or knows that a child does not have a safe and good kindergarten environment | § 42 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | The kindergarten | When children or parents say that the child does not have a safe and good environment, investigate the matter and, as far as suitable measures exist, ensure that the child has one | § 42 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | The measures shall be chosen on the basis of a specific and professional assessment | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | The kindergarten | Draw up a written plan when measures are to be taken in a case | § 42 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | The plan shall state which problems the measures are to solve, the planned measures, when they will be carried out, who will carry them out and when they will be evaluated | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Everyone working in the kindergarten | Notify the kindergarten head immediately if they suspect or know that another employee is violating a child | § 43 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten head | Notify the kindergarten owner when an employee is suspected of violating a child | § 43 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Everyone working in the kindergarten | Notify the kindergarten owner directly if they suspect that the kindergarten head is violating a child | § 43 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | The kindergarten | Initiate investigations and measures immediately if an employee is suspected of violating a child | § 43 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Applies to investigations and measures under § 42 third and fourth paragraphs | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Entities under the Kindergarten Act | Follow the Public Administration Act’s rules on confidentiality (§§ 13 to 13g) | § 44 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten staff | Be alert to circumstances that should lead to measures from the social services or the health and care services, and provide information about such circumstances on their own initiative | § 45 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Applies insofar as the information can be provided without breaching the duty of confidentiality | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Everyone performing services or work under the Act | Be alert to circumstances that may lead to measures from child welfare services | § 46 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Everyone performing services or work under the Act | Notify child welfare services without undue delay and notwithstanding the duty of confidentiality when there is reason to believe that a child is being subjected to abuse or serious neglect, has a serious illness or injury without treatment, has special needs that are not being met, or is being exploited for human trafficking | § 46 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Everyone performing services or work under the Act | Provide information when ordered to in accordance with the Child Welfare Act § 13-4 | § 46 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergartens and municipalities | May process personal data when necessary to perform tasks under the Act, and disclose information when a child changes kindergarten | § 47a | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Permission. Disclosure when changing kindergarten requires the parents’ consent | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | The kindergarten | Report service data to the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training | § 48 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Private kindergartens also report to the municipality. The data shall not contain directly identifiable personal data | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten owner | Provide the child’s municipality of residence with the information needed to maintain the cash-for-care benefit register | § 49 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | The kindergarten | Present all information notwithstanding the duty of confidentiality and give the municipality access to the premises when the municipality carries out supervision | § 53 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | The kindergarten | Present all information notwithstanding the duty of confidentiality and give Statsforvalteren access to the premises during supervision | § 55 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | The kindergarten | Present all information notwithstanding the duty of confidentiality and give the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training access to the premises during supervision of financial matters | § 56 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | The directorate also has access to information from the owner and the owner’s related parties | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten owner | Be responsible for ensuring that the requirements of the health and environment regulations are met and make the necessary resources available | § 3 | Regulations on health and environment in kindergartens, schools and after-school programmes | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2023-03-28-449 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Kindergarten owner | Have the kindergarten approved by the municipality before starting, expanding or changing its operations | § 15 | Regulations on health and environment in kindergartens, schools and after-school programmes | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2023-03-28-449 | The application shall document how the entity will be established, built and operated in accordance with the regulations | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | The kindergarten | Operate the kindergarten in a manner that is satisfactory in terms of health, with a physical environment that is sound for the children’s health, well-being, play and learning | § 4 | Regulations on health and environment in kindergartens, schools and after-school programmes | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2023-03-28-449 | Premises and outdoor areas shall also cater for children with disabilities and prevent illness, injuries, accidents and abuse | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | The kindergarten | Have a satisfactory indoor climate, lighting and acoustic conditions, and protect the children from noise | §§ 6 to 8 | Regulations on health and environment in kindergartens, schools and after-school programmes | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2023-03-28-449 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | The kindergarten | Ensure a good setting for meals and sufficient time and calm to eat | § 9 | Regulations on health and environment in kindergartens, schools and after-school programmes | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2023-03-28-449 | The eating time should be at least 30 minutes in the kindergarten | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | The kindergarten | Be connected to a water supply that delivers drinking water in accordance with the Drinking Water Regulations, have sanitary facilities of a satisfactory standard, proper cleaning and waste management, and be operated so that the risk of infection is as low as possible | §§ 10 to 13 | Regulations on health and environment in kindergartens, schools and after-school programmes | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2023-03-28-449 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | The kindergarten | Have plans and routines to prevent and handle injuries, accidents, abuse and other serious incidents, ensure first aid training for employees and have first aid and safety equipment | § 14 | Regulations on health and environment in kindergartens, schools and after-school programmes | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2023-03-28-449 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | The kindergarten | Have an up-to-date and long-term maintenance plan for premises and outdoor areas | § 16 | Regulations on health and environment in kindergartens, schools and after-school programmes | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2023-03-28-449 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | The kindergarten | Inform children and parents about the requirements of the regulations, give notice of circumstances that may harm the children’s health, and provide the supervisory authority with information about such circumstances | § 17 | Regulations on health and environment in kindergartens, schools and after-school programmes | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2023-03-28-449 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | The kindergarten | Have internal control to ensure that the requirements of the health and environment regulations are complied with | § 18 | Regulations on health and environment in kindergartens, schools and after-school programmes | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2023-03-28-449 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Private kindergartens receiving grants | Use public grants and parental payment only for costs that relate directly to approved operations and are of reasonable scope | § 23 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Private kindergartens receiving grants | Not carry out transactions with related parties on terms that deviate from what would have been agreed between independent parties | § 23 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Private kindergartens receiving grants | Not have significantly lower staff costs per full-time place than is usual in comparable municipal kindergartens | § 23 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Private kindergartens receiving grants | Not lend out funds derived from public grants or parental payment | § 23 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Short-term loans in a group account scheme are exempt | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Private kindergartens receiving grants | Be able to document that public grants and parental payment have been used in accordance with § 23 | § 23 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Private kindergartens receiving grants | Not operate or own other business in the same legal entity as the kindergarten | § 23a | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Exception: ancillary activities that are closely linked to the kindergarten and make up a minor part. The regulations list rental of premises, outdoor areas and operating assets outside opening hours, courses and guidance, and student welfare services | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Private kindergartens receiving grants | Not take out loans other than from financial institutions | § 23b | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Exception for short-term debt in day-to-day operations | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Private kindergartens receiving grants | Notify the municipality and the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training of closure, change of ownership, transfer of property and other organisational changes | § 23c | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Under the financial regulations § 10, the notification shall be given before the changes take place, on a standardised form | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Private kindergartens receiving grants | Comply with the Bookkeeping Act and prepare annual accounts under the Accounting Act (kindergartens that must be a separate legal entity) | § 4 | Financial regulations to the Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2022-12-16-2322 | Ancillary activities shall be recorded in a separate department, and trade with related parties shall be stated in a note | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Private kindergartens receiving grants | Prepare separate accounts for each approved kindergarten and comply with the Bookkeeping Act (kindergartens exempt from the requirement to be a separate legal entity) | § 5 | Financial regulations to the Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2022-12-16-2322 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Private kindergartens receiving grants | Process agreements with related parties under the Limited Liability Companies Act § 3-8 when the trade in total exceeds NOK 50,000 per year, and approve ongoing agreements annually | § 6 | Financial regulations to the Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2022-12-16-2322 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Private kindergartens receiving grants | Have the accounts audited by a state-authorised public accountant | § 7 | Financial regulations to the Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2022-12-16-2322 | The reporting under § 8 shall also be certified by the auditor | ||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Private kindergartens receiving grants | Report accounting information on the use of grants and parental payment to the ministry every year on a standardised form | § 8 | Financial regulations to the Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2022-12-16-2322 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Private kindergartens receiving grants | Retain accounting material and documentation for ten years after the end of the financial year | § 9 | Financial regulations to the Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2022-12-16-2322 | |||
| Kindergarten | Kindergarten | Private kindergartens receiving grants | Report every year to the municipality on the number of children, age, hours of attendance and full-time equivalents with pension obligations as of 15 December | § 5 | Regulations on the financing of private kindergartens | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2026-03-23-454 | Shall also report total pensionable salary. The rest of the provision is not reproduced | ||
| Transition kindergarten–school | Kindergarten | The kindergarten | Cooperate with the school on the children’s transition from kindergarten to school and the after-school programme, so that the children have a safe and good transition | § 2a | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Refers to the Education Act § 4-7 and the Independent Schools Act § 5-5. The statutory text does not say what the cooperation shall consist of | ||
| Transition kindergarten–school | Kindergarten | The kindergarten | Obtain the parents’ consent before personal data about the child is disclosed to the school | § 2a | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | |||
| Transition kindergarten–school | Kindergarten | The kindergarten and PPT (Educational and Psychological Counselling Service) | Cooperate with other service providers, including schools that receive state grants under the Independent Schools Act § 6-1 | § 2b | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Assumed/believed: public primary and lower secondary schools are covered as municipal service providers, but the definition does not name them | ||
| Transition kindergarten–school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Ensure that the children have a safe and good transition from kindergarten to school | § 5-5 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Transition kindergarten–school | Primary and lower secondary school | The school (public) | Cooperate with other service providers, including kindergartens that receive grants under the Kindergarten Act § 19, on a comprehensive and coordinated provision | § 24-1 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | Assumed/believed: the duty relates to pupils and does not create a duty towards children who are still in kindergarten | ||
| Transition kindergarten–school | Primary and lower secondary school | The school (public) | No direct duty for public primary and lower secondary schools related to the transition from kindergarten | § 4-7 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | The duty is formulated for the municipality. See separate row under the municipality | ||
| Transition kindergarten–school | Kindergarten and school | Kindergarten and school | May have a joint coordinating committee for kindergarten and school | § 5 | Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-64 | Permission. The municipality may decide this for municipal kindergartens and primary and lower secondary schools, and private kindergartens and schools may have it if both wish. The reference to the Education Act § 10-4 may be outdated (Assumed/believed) | ||
| Transition kindergarten–school | Kindergarten and school | Kindergarten and school | May exceptionally cooperate on kindergarten head and management resources | § 4 | Regulations on pedagogical staffing and exemptions in kindergartens | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2017-06-22-1049 | Permission. Must not be at the expense of the quality of the kindergarten provision | ||
| Transition kindergarten–school | Kindergarten | Private kindergartens | Kindergartens that are part of an independent primary and lower secondary school approved under the Education Act are exempt from the requirement to be a separate legal entity | § 3a | Financial regulations to the Kindergarten Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2022-12-16-2322 | Exemption from a duty, not a duty | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Municipality | The municipality | Legal and financial responsibility for primary and lower secondary education | § 28-1 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Municipality | The municipality | Fulfil the right and duty to primary and lower secondary education | § 2-1, § 2-2 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Municipality | The municipality | Decide applications for deferred/early school start | § 2-4 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Municipality | The municipality | Education shall be free of charge | § 2-5 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Municipality | The municipality | Determine school catchment areas, allocate school places | § 2-6 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Municipality | The municipality | Language education: Bokmål/Nynorsk, Sami, sign language, special language education | § 3-1, § 3-2, § 3-4, § 3-6, § 3-7 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Municipality | The municipality | Transport, board and lodging, homework help, after-school programme (SFO), transition kindergarten–school | § 4-1 to § 4-5, § 4-7 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Municipality | The municipality | Municipal school of arts provision | § 26-1 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Municipality/County authority | The municipality (primary and lower secondary school) | Adapted education, monitoring of learning outcomes, individual accommodation, PPT | § 11-1, § 11-2, § 11-7, § 11-13 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Municipality | The municipality | Ensure a safe and good school environment, duty to act | § 12-2 to § 12-5 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Municipality | The municipality | School democracy, absence follow-up, rules of conduct, suspension | § 10-5 to § 10-7, § 13-1 to § 13-3 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Municipality | The municipality | Organisation: school calendar, class division, distance education, life stance | § 14-1 to § 14-7 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Municipality | The municipality | Guidance on choice of education/occupation and social matters | § 16-1, § 16-2 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Municipality | The municipality | Teacher competence, qualification principle, substitutes, police certificate | § 17-1 to § 17-12 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Municipality | The municipality | Cooperation/duty to provide information to health and social services and child welfare services | § 24-1 to § 24-3 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Municipality | The municipality | Privacy, retrieval from the National Population Register, participation in national evaluations | § 25-1, § 25-3, § 25-4 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Municipality | The municipality | PPT access for pupils at independent primary and lower secondary schools (approval is a state matter) | § 22-2 (cf. § 22-1) | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Municipality | The municipality | Foreign languages/in-depth studies years 8–10, accelerated subject study | § 1-9, § 1-12 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Municipality | The municipality | Homework help (8 h/week) and free SFO hours, reduced parental payment for SFO | § 2-1 to § 2-5 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Municipality | The municipality | Notification, system for grades/absence, final assessment grade | § 9-7, § 9-9, § 9-16 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Municipality | The municipality | Access to a school library | § 11-2 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Municipality | The municipality | Report data to the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training, national tests/mapping tests | § 19-1, § 19-3, § 19-5, § 19-6 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Municipality | The municipality (school health service) | Health-promoting/preventive work in the school health service | entire regulation | Regulations on health clinic and school health services | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2018-10-19-1584 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Municipality | The municipality (environmental health protection) | Approval/supervisory authority for the school environment (physical) | § 19 | Regulations on health and environment in kindergartens, schools and after-school programmes | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2023-03-28-449 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | State | The King | Overarching objectives/principles for education | § 1-4 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | State | The Sami Parliament | Regulations on Sami content in curricula | § 1-5 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | State | The ministry | Teaching materials for individually adapted education | § 11-14 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | State | The ministry | Approve independent primary and lower secondary schools | § 22-1 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | State | The ministry | Appeal body, pilot schemes, may carry out supervision | § 29-1, § 29-2, § 29-3 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | State | The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training | Responsibility for centrally set exams, national tests/screening, international surveys | § 9-26, § 19-5 to § 19-7 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | State | Statsforvalteren | Broad supervisory authority, appeal body (grades, individual school environment cases) | § 29-2, § 12-6 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | State | Statsforvalteren | Appeal body for final assessment grades, conduct/behaviour, conduct of exams | § 10-4 to § 10-8 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | State | NAV/the National Insurance scheme | Training allowance for parents attending Statped courses | § 9-14 | National Insurance Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/1997-02-28-19 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The school (public) | Not accept offensive behaviour such as bullying, violence, discrimination and harassment, and work continuously for a safe and good school environment | § 12-3 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | Everyone working at the school | Keep an eye on how the pupils are doing and, if possible, intervene if someone violates a pupil | § 12-4 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | Everyone working at the school | Notify the headteacher on suspicion or knowledge that a pupil does not have a safe and good school environment | § 12-4 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | Also applies when the pupil says that he or she does not feel safe and well | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The school (public) | Investigate the matter as soon as possible and remedy the situation with suitable measures | § 12-4 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The headteacher | Notify the municipality in serious cases where a pupil does not have a safe and good school environment | § 12-4 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The school (public) | Draw up a written plan for the measures in a case | § 12-4 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | The plan must state the problems, planned measures, timing, who is responsible and when the measures will be evaluated | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The school (public) | Document what is done to fulfil the duty to act, in the form and to the extent necessary | § 12-4 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | Everyone working at the school | Notify the headteacher immediately on suspicion that another person working at the school is violating a pupil | § 12-5 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The headteacher | Notify the municipality when an employee is suspected of violating a pupil, unless the report is clearly unfounded | § 12-5 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | Everyone working at the school | Notify the municipality directly on suspicion that someone in the school management is violating a pupil | § 12-5 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The school (public) | Arrange the school premises to accommodate pupils with disabilities | § 12-7 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The school (public) | May use non-anonymous school environment surveys in preventive work and in case of specific suspicions | § 20-5 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | Permission, not a duty | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | Teachers | Follow the pupils’ development and notify the headteacher if in doubt whether a pupil is benefiting satisfactorily from the education | § 11-2 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The school (public) | Put in place suitable measures when in doubt about benefit, and assess whether the measures are sufficient or whether the pupil may need individual adaptation | § 11-2 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The school (public) | Draw up an individual education plan for pupils receiving individually adapted education | § 11-10 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | The plan must state objectives, content and how the education is to be delivered | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The school (public) | Once a year, draw up a written overview of the individually adapted education and an assessment of the pupil’s development against the objectives in the plan | § 11-11 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | The pupil or the parents must have access to the overview and the assessment | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The school (public) | Cooperate with the parents on the pupil’s education | § 10-3 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The school (public) | Ensure that pupils and parents can take part in planning, carrying out and evaluating the school’s activities, and make it possible for all pupils to express themselves | § 10-4 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The school (public) | Hold a parents’ meeting at the start of each school year with information about the education, participation and routines | § 11-1 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The school (public) | Invite the parents to a scheduled meeting with the form teacher at least twice a year | § 11-1 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The school (public) | Give pupils the right to at least one meeting per half-year about academic development and regular dialogue with the form teacher about social development | § 9-6 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The headteacher | Decide on exclusion from education | § 13-1 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | How long and for which pupils exclusion may be used follows from the municipality’s school rules. The headteacher may authorise teachers to exclude pupils from a lesson they are themselves responsible for (max. two hours) | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | School employees | May intervene physically against pupils when other measures are insufficient, to prevent harm or serious disruption | § 13-4 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | Permission, not a duty. The intervention may not go further than necessary | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | School employees | Notify the headteacher after physical intervention against a pupil | § 13-5 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The headteacher | Notify the pupil’s parents of physical interventions, and the municipality in the case of repeated or particularly serious interventions | § 13-5 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The school (public) | Document all physical interventions with a brief description of the incident, the intervention and the pupil’s view of the matter | § 13-5 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The school (public) | Use the municipality’s adopted main written language form in written instruction and in written communication with pupils and parents | § 15-2 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The school (public) | Use teaching materials in Norwegian and Sami that follow the official spelling, and teaching materials in Bokmål and Nynorsk at the same time and price | § 15-3 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | Exceptions among other things for the subject Norwegian, subjects with year groups of 300 or fewer pupils and teaching materials where Norwegian text makes up a minor part | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The school (public) | Use word lists and dictionaries approved by the Language Council of Norway, and writing software that supports both Bokmål and Nynorsk | § 15-4 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The school (public) | Have academically, pedagogically and administratively sound management | § 17-2 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The school (public) | Have a headteacher with pedagogical competence who takes part in day-to-day activities and works on developing the organisation | § 17-2 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | One headteacher may lead several schools | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The headteacher | Be head of the after-school programme when it is attached to a school | § 4-5 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | The municipality may make exceptions | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | School employees | Not wear garments that cover the face when they are with the pupils | § 27-2 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | Exceptions for reasons of weather, health, safety and pedagogical or social purposes | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The school (public) | Cooperate with other service providers for a comprehensive and coordinated provision, and take part in the work on the pupil’s individual plan | § 24-1 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The school (public) | May obtain information from the previous school when changing schools | § 20-3 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | Permission. Applies to previously completed education, grades and absence to be entered on the diploma, and screening of language rights | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The school (public) | Give formative assessment, half-year assessment and final assessment in subjects, and assessment of conduct and behaviour from year 8 | §§ 9-11 to 9-17 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | Assumed/believed: the provisions describe what the assessment must be, but do not state who carries it out. Interpreted as the teachers and the school, with the municipality as responsible | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The headteacher | Discuss the final grades in conduct and behaviour with the teachers before they are set | § 9-17 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | Applies to year 10 | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The school (public) | Register all pupils receiving education in subjects with exams for the exam | § 9-27 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The headteacher | May exempt pupils in primary and lower secondary school from exams for weighty reasons | § 9-24 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | Permission | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The headteacher | Decide on expelling pupils from an exam after a warning and a statement from the pupil | § 9-39 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The headteacher | Annul the exam of a pupil who has cheated or attempted to cheat, after the pupil has been allowed to comment | § 9-42 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The school (public) | Issue diplomas to all pupils who have completed primary and lower secondary education, with final assessment grades, exam grades and absence | § 9-43 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | The school where the pupil completes the education issues the diploma (§ 9-45). Absence is recorded from year 8 (§ 9-44) | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Primary and lower secondary school | The school (public) | May exempt pupils from national tests, screening tests and the swimming test in cases specified by the regulations | §§ 19-8, 19-9 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | Permission. The pupil or the parents may nevertheless decide that the pupil is to take the tests | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Not run or own any activity other than a school under the Act | § 2-2 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | Additional activities closely linked to running the school and forming a minor part may be permitted by the ministry | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Be registered in the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities and document share capital of at least NOK 100,000 before applying for approval | § 2-2 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Organise primary and lower secondary schools with both primary and lower secondary stages in the same legal entity | § 2-2 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Have at least 15 pupils for three consecutive school years | § 2-2 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | Otherwise the approval lapses. The ministry may make exceptions. For Norwegian schools abroad the limit is 10 pupils | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Have articles of association stating that all public grants and school fees must benefit the pupils | § 2-2 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Provide education in Norwegian or Sami, and have important documents available in Norwegian or Sami | § 2-1 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | International schools are exempt from the language requirement | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Have school premises that are approved by the ministry and located together | § 2-4 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Operate according to curricula approved by the ministry, equivalent to the public curriculum, specifying forms of assessment and documentation | § 2-3 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | The school otherwise has freedom of teaching | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school’s board (independent) | Set the subject and lesson distribution for the school year when up to ten per cent of the lessons in a subject are reallocated | § 2-3 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | Permission to reallocate | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Offer at least two elective subjects at each year from year 8 to year 10 | § 1-6 | Regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-901 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Offer education in at least one foreign language and at least one in-depth subject, or working life subject, from year 8 to year 10 | § 1-7 | Regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-901 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Ensure regular physical activity for pupils in years 5 to 7 in addition to physical education | § 1-5 | Regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-901 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | May make individual decisions on acceleration in years 8 to 10 so that pupils receive education in subjects at upper secondary level | § 1-10 | Regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-901 | Permission. Statsforvalteren is the appeal body | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Have the whole country as its catchment area and be open to everyone who meets the conditions for admission to public schools | § 3-1 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Have admission rules showing the prioritisation of applicants when oversubscribed, and decide admission according to the rules | § 3-1 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | Admission decisions are individual decisions under the Public Administration Act, and the ministry is the appeal body | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Send notification of admission of pupils in primary and lower secondary school to the pupil’s home municipality | § 3-1 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Ensure that each pupil belongs to one class, that classes and groups are no larger than is safe and pedagogically sound, and that all pupils have a form teacher | § 3-4 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Demonstrate that the conditions for distance learning are met | § 3-4a | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Ensure adapted education | § 3-4b | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Ensure that teachers follow the pupils’ development and notify the general manager if in doubt about benefit, and put in place measures and assess individual adaptation | § 3-4c | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Ensure prompt and suitable intensive education in years 1 to 4 for pupils at risk of not making expected progress in reading, writing or arithmetic | § 3-4d | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Provide individual adaptation to pupils entitled to it, with the same duties as public schools | § 3-6 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | Education Act §§ 11-4 to 11-11 apply correspondingly. Decisions and costs lie with the home municipality. The duty to have an individual education plan and annual evaluation follows from the reference (Assumed/believed) | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Allow pupils who lack functional speech to use suitable forms of communication, and provide the necessary education in augmentative and alternative communication | § 3-14 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Ensure that pupils receive guidance on choice of education and occupation, and on social and personal matters | §§ 3-11, 3-11a | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | The guidance must be given at the school, and individually if the pupil wishes | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | May grant leave from school when the pupil receives sound education, and must have guidelines for leave | § 3-13 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | Permission, but a duty to have guidelines | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Offer free homework help of at least eight hours per week | § 7-1e | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | See also § 2-1 of the Regulations to the Independent Schools Act. The school distributes the hours freely across the years | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Ensure that pupils are not exposed to advertising likely to create commercial pressure | § 7-1a | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Ensure accident insurance for the pupils | § 7-1b | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | Does not apply to homework help | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | Pupils and employees at an independent school | Not wear garments that cover the face in education, SFO and homework help | § 3-15 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | Exceptions for weather, health, safety and pedagogical or social purposes | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school’s board (independent) | Comply with Chapter 12 of the Education Act on the school environment, where «the municipality» is read as «the school» or «the school’s board» and «headteacher» as «general manager» | § 2-4 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | The duty to act, notification of violations and documentation apply correspondingly. See rows for public schools | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school’s board (independent) | May lay down in the school rules that pupils may be excluded after several or serious breaches of the rules | § 3-10 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | Permission. Pupils in years 1–7 may be excluded for individual lessons or the rest of the day, years 8–10 for up to three days | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | General manager (independent school) | Decide on exclusion from education | § 3-10 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | The general manager may authorise teachers to exclude pupils from a lesson they are themselves responsible for (max. two hours). The decision is an individual decision, and the ministry is the appeal body | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school’s board (independent) | Ensure that the school works continuously and systematically to prevent situations where employees must intervene physically against pupils | § 3-10a | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | Employees at an independent school | Notify the general manager of physical interventions against pupils | § 3-10c | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | The general manager notifies the parents, and the board in the case of repeated or particularly serious interventions | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Document all physical interventions with a brief description of the incident, the intervention and the pupil’s view of the matter | § 3-10c | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Have school rules on the organisation of school democracy and on the pupils’ rights and duties, including conduct and behaviour | § 5a-7 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Ensure that pupils who are absent from education are followed up | § 5a-6 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Cooperate with parents on the pupil’s education | § 5a-3 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Ensure that pupils and parents can take part in school democracy, and let all pupils express themselves | § 5a-4 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Have a pupils’ council and a parents’ council | § 5a-5 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | The board shall ensure that it is determined which other user bodies the schools shall have | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Give pupils and parents the information they need about the education, the individual pupil, the school environment and the school rules | § 5a-8 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Hold a parents’ meeting at the start of each school year and invite parents to a meeting with the form teacher at least twice a year | § 8-1 | Regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-901 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Give pupils the right to at least one meeting per half-year on academic progress, and regular dialogue with the form teacher | § 6-6 | Regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-901 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Notify the pupil in writing when a grade may lapse or be lowered, and the parents if the pupil is not of age | § 6-7 | Regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-901 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Have a system for recording grades and absence, correct recording errors and document absence every half-year | § 6-9 | Regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-901 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | Subject teachers | Award final assessment grades and carry out half-year assessment | §§ 6-13, 6-16 | Regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-901 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | General manager (independent school) | Discuss the final grades in conduct and behaviour with the teachers before they are awarded | § 6-17 | Regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-901 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Register all pupils taking part in education in subjects with an exam for the exam, ensure that the right pupil attends, and give information about the exam | §§ 6-26, 6-27 | Regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-901 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | General manager (independent school) | May exempt pupils in primary and lower secondary school from exams for weighty reasons, expel pupils from exams and annul exams for cheating | §§ 6-24, 6-38, 6-41 | Regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-901 | Exemption is a permission. Expulsion and annulment require that the pupil is given the opportunity to be heard | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Issue diplomas in primary and lower secondary school with final assessment grades, exam grades and absence, and record absence from year 8 | §§ 6-42 to 6-44 | Regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-901 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Send appeals against final assessments to Statsforvalteren with the necessary attachments | §§ 7-4 to 7-8 | Regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-901 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Ensure that national tests, mapping tests and national school environment surveys are carried out | §§ 13-3 to 13-5 | Regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-901 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | May exempt pupils from national tests, mapping tests and the swimming test in the cases specified by the regulations | §§ 13-7, 13-8 | Regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-901 | Permission | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Report information about the school, pupils, staff, subject choices, organisation and parental payment to the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training | § 13-1 | Regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-901 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Have academically, pedagogically and administratively sound management and a general manager | § 4-1 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Ensure that teaching staff meet the competence requirements in the Education Act §§ 17-3 and 17-4 | § 4-2 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Require a police certificate from everyone to be employed permanently or temporarily, and not employ persons convicted of sexual abuse of minors | § 4-3 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | The regulations §§ 10-1 to 10-4 give more detailed rules. The police certificate shall not be older than three months | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Give teaching staff pay and working conditions as in comparable public schools | § 4-4 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Let only employees in teaching posts have academic responsibility for the education, and give other staff who assist the necessary guidance | § 4-5 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Ensure access to substitutes for normal and expected absence | § 4-6 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school’s board (independent) | Have overall management of the school and ensure that the school is run in accordance with acts and regulations | § 5-2 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school’s board (independent) | Ensure that pupils of compulsory school age have their right to primary and lower secondary education fulfilled, and notify parents and the home municipality when a pupil fails to attend for a longer period without lawful reason | § 5-2 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school’s board (independent) | Set the level of school fees and whether the primary and lower secondary school shall have a scheme of graduated and reduced school fees | § 5-2 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school’s board (independent) | Adopt the budget and accounts, set admission and school rules, and appoint the general manager | § 5-2 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school’s board (independent) | Put forward cases on mandatory change of school under the Education Act § 13-2 | § 5-2 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school’s board (independent) | Be responsible for sound financial and accounting management and ensure that public grants and school fees benefit the pupils | § 5-2 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school’s board (independent) | Ensure correct and necessary competence and that teachers, the general manager and other staff receive academic and pedagogical development | § 5-2 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school’s board (independent) | Discuss the annual status report | § 5-2 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school’s board (independent) | Have internal control to ensure that the requirements of the Act and its regulations are followed | § 5-2a | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school’s board (independent) | Follow up the results of national quality assessments, prepare an annual report on the state of the school (learning outcomes, dropout and learning environment), and ensure regular assessment of the education with pupils involved | § 5-2b | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school’s board (independent) | Ensure that staff are alert to circumstances that should lead to measures from the social services or the health and care services | § 7-5 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Ensure that all public grants and school fees benefit the pupils, without dividends or transfer of surplus to the owners or their related parties | § 6-3 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Not charge pupils or parents in primary and lower secondary school beyond the school fees permitted by the Act | § 6-2 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | School fees may amount to up to 15 per cent of the grant basis, plus a fixed amount for rent and capital costs (NOK 3 400 per year for primary and lower secondary school) | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Comply with the Accounting Act and the Bookkeeping Act, have an audit and present the budget and audited accounts | § 7-1 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Apply for an operating licence by 15 June before start-up | § 3-3 | Financial regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2018-09-01-1295 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Report the grant-eligible number of pupils as of 1 October with a special attestation from the auditor, and a forecast in April | § 4-6 | Financial regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2018-09-01-1295 | Significant deviation between the forecast and the actual number of pupils shall be reported as early as possible | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school’s board (independent) | Ensure that all transactions with owners and related parties are on market terms and approved by the board | § 6-2 | Financial regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2018-09-01-1295 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school’s board (independent) | Retain surplus only up to 25 per cent of the total income basis, and repay surplus beyond that to the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training unprompted | § 6-3 | Financial regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2018-09-01-1295 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Run ancillary activities only within what the regulations permit, self-financed and kept in a separate department | § 7-1 | Financial regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2018-09-01-1295 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Submit the annual accounts, annual report, auditor’s report and information supporting the accounts to the ministry by the deadline | § 8-1 | Financial regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2018-09-01-1295 | The accounts shall follow the calendar year and the Norwegian standard chart of accounts, with separate accounts for school fees and state grants | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Provide specific note disclosures on public funding sources, school fee rates, disposal of surplus, transactions with owners and ancillary activities | § 8-2 | Financial regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2018-09-01-1295 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Have the accounts audited by a state-authorised or registered auditor | § 8-3 | Financial regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2018-09-01-1295 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school’s board (independent) | Make the auditor familiar with the Independent Schools Act, regulations, the conditions of the approval and the annual grant letter | § 8-5 | Financial regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2018-09-01-1295 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school’s board (independent) | Ensure sufficient documentation that the rules have been followed, and keep it for ten years | § 8-6 | Financial regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2018-09-01-1295 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Notify the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training immediately and unprompted when school operations are closed down, and send an overview of assets and winding-up accounts | § 9-1 | Financial regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2018-09-01-1295 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Repay remaining assets and funds that count as state grants on closure, unprompted | § 9-2 | Financial regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2018-09-01-1295 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Give the ministry access to school facilities and documentation during supervision, including documentation from the owner and related parties | § 7-2 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Cooperate with other service providers for a comprehensive and coordinated provision, and take part in the work on the pupil’s individual plan | § 3-6a | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | Everyone performing services or work under the Independent Schools Act | Notify child welfare services without undue delay and notwithstanding the duty of confidentiality when there is reason to believe that children are subject to neglect or serious circumstances | § 7-4 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Follow the rules of the Public Administration Act on the duty of confidentiality | § 7-3 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | May process personal data when necessary to perform tasks under the Act, and obtain information on change of school | § 7-9 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | Permission | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school (independent) | Ensure access control so that staff only have access to the personal data they need | § 14-2 | Regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-901 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | Independent school (Education Act § 22) | Follow the provisions of the Education Act listed in § 22-2, among other things on aims and principles, assessment, school democracy, adapted education, school environment, expulsion, counselling, staff and competence | § 22-2 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | The list also covers the duty to notify child welfare services, information to the health and social services and the ban on face-covering garments | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | Independent school (Education Act § 22) | Have internal control under the Local Government Act § 25-1 | § 22-2 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | The school’s highest body | Be responsible for duties the Act places on the municipality (for example ensuring that national tests and mapping tests are carried out) | § 22-2 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | See also the Regulations to the Education Act §§ 19-5 and 19-6 | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | Independent school (Education Act § 22) | Notify the ministry when operations under the Act are closed down | § 22-1 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | The approval also lapses if the school does not start within three school years | ||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | Independent school (Education Act § 22) | Follow the rules of the Public Administration Act on the duty of confidentiality | § 22-4 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Primary and lower secondary school | Independent school | Owner or manager of the undertaking (independent school) | Be responsible for ensuring that the requirements of the health and environment regulations are met | § 3 | Regulations on health and environment in kindergartens, schools and after-school programmes | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2023-03-28-449 | The board for schools under the Independent Schools Act, the management for private primary and lower secondary schools under the Education Act | ||
| Transition lower secondary–upper secondary | Municipality | The municipality | Cooperate with the county authority on a safe transition | § 9-5 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Transition lower secondary–upper secondary | Municipality | The municipality | Counselling on educational/career choices for final-year pupils | § 16-1, § 16-2 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Transition lower secondary–upper secondary | Municipality | The municipality | May offer further primary and lower secondary education for those who need it | § 9-7 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Transition lower secondary–upper secondary | Municipality | The municipality | Report pupils with accommodation needs to the county authority by 1 October | § 4-21 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Transition lower secondary–upper secondary | Municipality | The municipality | Report pupils with severely reduced functional ability by 1 October | § 4-22 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Transition lower secondary–upper secondary | County authority | The county authority | Ensure a safe and good transition (main responsibility) | § 9-5 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Transition lower secondary–upper secondary | County authority | The county authority | Educational provision for those lacking the academic/linguistic prerequisites | § 9-6 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Transition lower secondary–upper secondary | County authority | The county authority | Follow-up service for young people not in education/work | § 9-4 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Transition lower secondary–upper secondary | County authority | The county authority | May obtain personal data from primary and lower secondary schools | § 25-1 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Transition lower secondary–upper secondary | County authority | The county authority | Receive and process notifications, expert assessment by PPT (Educational and Psychological Counselling Service) | § 4-21, § 4-22 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Transition lower secondary–upper secondary | County authority | The county authority | Process special applications for admission, application deadline 1 March/1 February | § 4-7 to § 4-9, § 4-12, § 4-20 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Transition lower secondary–upper secondary | Primary and lower secondary school | The school (public) | May share personal data on transition to upper secondary education to adapt the education, if the pupil or the parents permit it | § 25-1 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | Permission. Disclosure may take place notwithstanding the duty of confidentiality. The county authority may for its part obtain information from the primary and lower secondary schools | ||
| Transition lower secondary–upper secondary | Primary and lower secondary school | The school (public) | Issue the primary and lower secondary school diploma that forms the basis for the right to and admission to upper secondary education | § 9-45 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | Assumed/believed: the school’s duty follows from the diploma rules. The link to admission lies in §§ 4-1, 4-12 and 4-19 | ||
| Transition lower secondary–upper secondary | Primary and lower secondary school | The school (public) | Give statements on applicants coming from primary and lower secondary school without grades, which the county authority shall use in ranking | §§ 4-20, 4-26 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | Assumed/believed: the provisions say that the county authority shall rank on the basis of statements from the primary and lower secondary schools, but do not expressly say that the schools are obliged to provide them | ||
| Transition lower secondary–upper secondary | Primary and lower secondary school | The school (public) | No direct duty for public primary and lower secondary schools to cooperate on the transition to upper secondary | § 9-5 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | The duty lies with the municipality (cooperation with the county authority). See separate rows under the municipality | ||
| Transition lower secondary–upper secondary | Independent school | Independent upper secondary school | Ensure that pupils have a safe and good transition from primary and lower secondary school | § 5-6 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | The primary and lower secondary school shall cooperate with the upper secondary school on the transition | ||
| Transition lower secondary–upper secondary | Independent school | Independent upper secondary school | May obtain personal data from primary and lower secondary schools necessary to fulfil the right to upper secondary education, carry out admission and prevent absence | § 7-9 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | Permission. The information may be completed primary and lower secondary school, half-year assessment with grades from year 10, grades and absence on the primary and lower secondary school diploma (the regulations § 14-4) | ||
| Transition lower secondary–upper secondary | Independent school | Independent upper secondary school | May share personal data on transition to adapt the education, if the pupil or the parents permit it | § 7-9 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | Permission | ||
| Transition lower secondary–upper secondary | Independent school | Independent upper secondary school | May admit applicants with a primary and lower secondary school diploma, and assess applicants without grades individually and rank them on the basis of statements from the primary and lower secondary schools | §§ 3-2, 3-11, 3-12 | Regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-901 | |||
| Transition lower secondary–upper secondary | Independent school | Independent upper secondary school | May give priority and reserve places for applicants with extensive accommodation needs from primary and lower secondary school | § 3-9 | Regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-901 | Permission | ||
| Transition lower secondary–upper secondary | Independent school | Independent upper secondary school | Let pupils who have received a final assessment in an upper secondary subject in years 8–10 choose between having the subject approved or taking it again | § 6-49 | Regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-901 | |||
| Transition lower secondary–upper secondary | Independent school | The school issuing the diploma | Decide applications for exemption from grade assessment in the second Norwegian written standard (sidemål) for pupils who were exempt from writing instruction in it in years 8–10 | § 6-21 | Regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-901 | |||
| Transition lower secondary–upper secondary | Upper secondary school | The school (public upper secondary) | No direct duty for public upper secondary schools linked to primary and lower secondary school | § 9-5 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | The duty lies with the county authority (main responsibility for the transition) | ||
| Upper secondary education | County authority | The county authority | Overall responsibility for upper secondary education, receive applicants from other counties | § 28-2 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Upper secondary education | County authority | The county authority | Right to upper secondary education, plan/expand provision, practice certificate | § 5-1, § 5-3 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Upper secondary education | County authority | The county authority | Free education | § 5-8 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Upper secondary education | County authority | The county authority | Language education: Sami, sign language, special language education, introductory education | § 6-2, § 6-3, § 6-5, § 6-6 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Upper secondary education | County authority | The county authority | Approve/follow up apprenticeship contracts and training enterprises | § 7-2, § 7-3, § 7-5, § 7-7 to § 7-9 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Upper secondary education | County authority | The county authority | Appoint the vocational training board | § 8-2 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Upper secondary education | County authority | The county authority | Transport, housing, follow-up service, transition, educational provision | § 9-1 to § 9-6, § 28-7 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Upper secondary education | County authority | The county authority | Common rules: adapted education, school environment, rules of conduct, PPT (Educational and Psychological Counselling Service), teacher competence | § 11-1,11-2,11-7,11-13,12-2 to 12-6,13-1,13-2,14-2,14-4,16-1,16-2,17-1 to 17-12,24-2 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Upper secondary education | County authority | The county authority | Adult education at upper secondary level: admission, accommodation, rules of conduct | § 18-3, § 18-5, § 19-2, § 20-2 to § 20-4 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Upper secondary education | County authority | The county authority | Free career guidance for everyone in the county | § 28-9 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Upper secondary education | County authority | The county authority | Responsibility for education of children in child welfare institutions/health institutions/prisons | § 28-3 to § 28-5 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Upper secondary education | County authority | The county authority | Admission: application form, deadlines, local regulations, individual processing | § 4-2 to § 4-6, § 4-9, § 4-12, § 4-13, § 4-14, § 4-20 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Upper secondary education | County authority | The county authority | Content: subject and lesson distribution, additional education, approval of previous education | § 5-1, § 5-2, § 5-11 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Upper secondary education | County authority | The county authority | Vocational education and training: alternative provision, contract organisation, cooperation body | § 6-2 to § 6-4, § 6-12, § 6-16, § 6-18, § 6-19, § 6-22 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Upper secondary education | County authority | The county authority | Placement in apprenticeships, local regulations on placement | § 7-2, § 7-6 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Upper secondary education | County authority | The county authority | Transport allowance, tasks of the follow-up service | § 8-1, § 8-3 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Upper secondary education | County authority | The county authority | Examination/test: assessment, diploma, trade/journeyman’s test, appeal | § 9-33,9-42,9-46,9-53 to 9-55,9-59,9-61,9-62,9-66,10-9,10-10 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Upper secondary education | County authority | The county authority | Teacher competence requirements at upper secondary level (common core subjects, programme subjects, mother tongue, foreign qualifications) | § 12-7 to § 12-11 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Upper secondary education | County authority | The county authority | Adult education: admission, assessment of prior learning (realkompetanse), placement | § 13-4 to § 13-6, § 15-5, § 17-1, § 19-4 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Upper secondary education | County authority | The county authority | May require a user fee for a laptop | § 22-5 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Upper secondary education | County authority | The county authority | Transport also for pupils at independent upper secondary schools | § 3-7 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Upper secondary education | County authority | The county authority | Regional integration work, qualification plans, career guidance for immigrants | § 4 | Integration Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2020-11-06-127 | |||
| Upper secondary education | County authority | The county authority | May give grants to study associations, free premises | § 6, § 7 | Adult Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2009-06-19-95 | |||
| Upper secondary education | Municipality | The municipality (school health service) | Health service at upper secondary schools in the municipality | § 2, § 3, § 6, § 7 | Regulations on health clinic and school health services | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2018-10-19-1584 | |||
| Upper secondary education | Municipality | The municipality (environmental health protection) | Approval/supervisory authority for the upper secondary school environment (regardless of county authority ownership) | § 2, § 19 | Regulations on health and environment in kindergartens, schools and after-school programmes | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2023-03-28-449 | |||
| Upper secondary education | State | The King | Overall curriculum framework, Svalbard regulations | § 1-4, § 1-2 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Upper secondary education | State | The Sami Parliament | Sami content in curricula also for upper secondary education | § 1-5 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Upper secondary education | State | The ministry | Appeal body, pilot schemes, approval of independent schools, regulations on assessment/appeal | § 5-4, § 22-1, § 29-1, § 29-3 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Upper secondary education | State | The ministry | Appoint advisory body, vocational councils, curriculum groups, appeal boards for trade/journeyman’s tests | § 8-1, § 8-3 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Upper secondary education | State | The ministry | Approve foreign vocational education and training | § 23-3, § 23-4 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Upper secondary education | State | The ministry | Operate the national database for diplomas and documentation | § 25-2 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Upper secondary education | State | The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training | Responsibility for examinations, trade/journeyman’s tests, appeals | § 9-26, § 9-55 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Upper secondary education | State | Statsforvalteren | Supervision, appeal body (the county authority’s duties, chapters 7/8) | § 29-2 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Upper secondary education | State | Statens vegvesen | Approve vehicle workshops, technical manager requirements linked to trade certificate | § 4, § 9 to § 11, § 18, § 19 | Regulations on work on vehicles (workshop regulations) | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2020-10-28-2170 | |||
| Upper secondary education | State | DSB | Electrical contractors: qualification requirements, register, exemption, supervision | § 3, § 5 to § 9, § 11, § 12, § 14, § 15 | Regulations on electrical contractors and qualification requirements (FEK) | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2013-06-19-739 | |||
| Upper secondary education | State | Educational Support Act/Lånekassen | Approve education for support, administer loans/grants, appeals board | § 4, § 5, § 16, § 18, § 19, § 24 | Educational Support Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-03-37 | |||
| Upper secondary education | State | The Public Dental Health Service (county-run, statutory basis in state law) | Dental care for children/young people up to and including age 18 and young adults aged 19–28 | § 1-2, § 1-3 | Dental Health Services Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/1983-06-03-54 | |||
| Upper secondary education | Upper secondary school | The school (public upper secondary) | Not accept offensive behaviour such as bullying, violence, discrimination and harassment, and work continuously for a safe and good school environment | § 12-3 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Upper secondary education | Upper secondary school | Everyone working at the school | Keep an eye on how pupils are doing, intervene if possible when someone violates a pupil, and notify the headteacher if a pupil is suspected not to have a safe and good school environment | § 12-4 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | Also applies when the pupil says that he or she does not feel safe and well | ||
| Upper secondary education | Upper secondary school | The school (public upper secondary) | Investigate the matter as soon as possible, remedy the situation with suitable measures, draw up a written plan for the measures and document what is done | § 12-4 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | The headteacher notifies the county authority in serious cases | ||
| Upper secondary education | Upper secondary school | Everyone working at the school | Notify the headteacher immediately if another employee is suspected of violating a pupil, or directly notify the county authority if the suspicion concerns the management | § 12-5 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | The headteacher notifies the county authority unless the notification is obviously unfounded | ||
| Upper secondary education | Upper secondary school | The school (public upper secondary) | Furnish the school so that it is adapted for pupils with disabilities | § 12-7 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Upper secondary education | Upper secondary school | The headteacher | Decide on exclusion from education for up to five days | § 13-1 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | Exclusion for the rest of the school year is decided by the county authority and cannot be delegated to the school | ||
| Upper secondary education | Upper secondary school | School employees | Notify the headteacher after physical interventions against pupils, and document all physical interventions | § 13-5 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | The headteacher notifies the parents and the county authority in the case of repeated or particularly serious interventions. The intervention itself is a permission (§ 13-4) | ||
| Upper secondary education | Upper secondary school | School employees | Not wear garments that cover the face when they are with the pupils | § 27-2 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Upper secondary education | Upper secondary school | Teachers | Keep track of pupils’ development and notify the headteacher if there is doubt about the benefit of the education | § 11-2 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Upper secondary education | Upper secondary school | The school (public upper secondary) | Implement suitable measures when there is doubt about the benefit and assess whether the pupil may need individual adaptation | § 11-2 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Upper secondary education | Upper secondary school | The school (public upper secondary) | Prepare an individual education plan and an annual written overview and assessment for pupils receiving individually adapted education | §§ 11-10, 11-11 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Upper secondary education | Upper secondary school | The school (public upper secondary) | Cooperate with parents, let pupils and parents take part in school democracy, and have a pupil council | §§ 10-3, 10-4, 10-5 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Upper secondary education | Upper secondary school | The school (public upper secondary) | Hold a parents’ meeting at the start of the school year and invite the parents of pupils who are minors to at least one planned meeting in the first half-year of Vg1 and Vg2 | § 11-1 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Upper secondary education | Upper secondary school | The school (public upper secondary) | Give pupils the right to at least one meeting per half-year on academic development and regular dialogue with the form teacher | § 9-6 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Upper secondary education | Upper secondary school | The school (public upper secondary) | Use the main written language form in written teaching and communication, teaching materials with official spelling, dictionaries approved by the Language Council of Norway and writing software that supports both written languages | §§ 15-2 to 15-4 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Upper secondary education | Upper secondary school | The school (public upper secondary) | Have academically, pedagogically and administratively sound management led by a headteacher with pedagogical competence | § 17-2 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Upper secondary education | Upper secondary school | The school (public upper secondary) | Cooperate with other service providers for a comprehensive and coordinated provision, and take part in the work on the individual plan | § 24-1 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Upper secondary education | Upper secondary school | The headteacher | May agree on distance learning outside the school with pupils in upper secondary education | § 14-4 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | Permission | ||
| Upper secondary education | Upper secondary school | The headteacher | May decide that a pupil with up to 15 per cent self-reported or undocumented absence still receives a grade when the ten per cent absence limit is clearly unreasonable | § 9-8 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | Permission. The subject teacher must have a sufficient basis for assessment | ||
| Upper secondary education | Upper secondary school | Subject teachers | Award final assessment grades in subjects | § 9-16 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | Assumed/believed: the provision does not name the actor explicitly for public schools. The county authority shall ensure that pupils know the basis for assessment | ||
| Upper secondary education | Upper secondary school | The headteacher | Discuss the final assessment grades in conduct and behaviour with the teachers before they are awarded | § 9-17 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Upper secondary education | Upper secondary school | The school (public upper secondary) | Register pupils for examinations in subjects concluded with an examination, and receive registrations for resit, deferred and special examinations | § 9-27 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Upper secondary education | Upper secondary school | The headteacher | Decide on exclusion from examinations and annul examinations in the case of cheating | §§ 9-39, 9-42 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | The pupil shall be allowed to give their view first | ||
| Upper secondary education | Upper secondary school | The school (public upper secondary) | Issue diplomas to pupils who complete and pass their education, and a new diploma when needed | §§ 9-46, 9-54 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | The school or the county authority issues diplomas with Norwegian and Sami text to pupils who have had Sami education | ||
| Upper secondary education | Upper secondary school | The school (public upper secondary) | Issue certificates of competence to pupils who do not meet the requirements for a diploma | § 9-51 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | For apprentices, training candidates and private candidates, the county authority issues the certificate of competence | ||
| Upper secondary education | Upper secondary school | The school (public upper secondary) | Issue first-time diplomas to pupils who have passed university admission certification within five years of starting | § 9-47 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Upper secondary education | Independent school | Independent upper secondary school | Operate on one of the approved bases, and offer elite sport as a programme subject in Vg2 and Vg3 if the school is approved for elite sport | § 2-1 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Upper secondary education | Independent school | Independent upper secondary school | Have the whole country as its catchment area and have admission rules showing the order of priority when oversubscribed | § 3-1 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | Young people with a right to upper secondary education shall be given priority over adults. Notice of admission is sent to the home county | ||
| Upper secondary education | Independent school | Independent upper secondary school | Give pupils the right to complete the year level, unless they can be expelled | § 3-3 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Upper secondary education | Independent school | Independent upper secondary school | May admit pupils for additional education in failed subjects if the school has spare capacity, and reserve places for them | §§ 3-3, 3-4 | Regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-901 | Permission | ||
| Upper secondary education | Independent school | Independent upper secondary school | May reserve places for exchange pupils, and allocate places based on skill or an admission test in sport, music, dance and drama | §§ 3-7, 3-8 | Regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-901 | Permission | ||
| Upper secondary education | Independent school | Independent upper secondary school | Decide on applications to take a subject as a private candidate, for exemption from physical education and for approval of previously passed education | §§ 3-10, 4-7, 4-8 | Regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-901 | The decisions are individual decisions, and Statsforvalteren is the appeal body | ||
| Upper secondary education | Independent school | General manager (independent upper secondary school) | May decide that a pupil with up to 15 per cent self-reported or undocumented absence still receives a grade when the ten per cent absence limit is clearly unreasonable | § 6-8 | Regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-901 | Permission | ||
| Upper secondary education | Independent school | Independent upper secondary school | Process applications for deferred and resit examinations and for diplomas for pupils with major learning difficulties in vocational programmes | §§ 6-35, 6-36, 6-47 | Regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-901 | The school decides applications for documentation of major learning difficulties only at the transition from Vg2 to Vg3 | ||
| Upper secondary education | Independent school | Independent upper secondary school | Issue diplomas, first-time diplomas and certificates of competence, and record absence on them | §§ 6-45 to 6-51 | Regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-901 | |||
| Upper secondary education | Independent school | Independent upper secondary school | Submit results from all diplomas and certificates of competence to the national diploma database | § 7-10 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | Notwithstanding the duty of confidentiality. The ministry may grant exemptions | ||
| Upper secondary education | Independent school | Independent upper secondary school | Provide pupils with the necessary printed and digital teaching materials and digital equipment without payment from pupils beyond what the regulations allow | § 6-2 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | The school may require pupils to obtain other individual equipment, and charge an annual user fee for a laptop (the regulations § 15-1) | ||
| Upper secondary education | Independent school | Independent upper secondary school | Report the number of grant-eligible pupils as of 1 October and 1 April with a special attestation from the auditor, and a forecast in April | § 4-7 | Financial regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2018-09-01-1295 | Pupils with more than 20 days of undocumented absence do not trigger grants (§ 4-2) | ||
| Upper secondary education | Independent school | Independent upper secondary school | Carry out exclusion for up to five days through the general manager | § 3-10 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | Exclusion for the rest of the school year is decided by the home county | ||
| Upper secondary education | Independent school | Independent upper secondary school | Ensure counselling on educational and vocational choices and on social and personal matters | §§ 3-11, 3-11a | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Apprentices (general) | County authority | The county authority | Grant to training enterprise, payment obligation and reimbursement rules | § 6-15 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Apprentices (general) | County authority | The county authority | Placement rules: application form, deadline 1 March, announcement | § 7-1, § 7-3, § 7-5, § 7-6 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Apprentices (general) | County authority | The county authority | Right to a meeting on development, assessment in subjects (formative/half-yearly/final) | § 9-6, § 9-11, § 9-13, § 9-15 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Apprentices (general) | County authority | The county authority | Registration for examinations takes place via the training enterprise | § 9-27 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Apprentices (general) | County authority | The county authority | Special documentation rules for major learning difficulties | § 9-49 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Apprentices (general) | County authority | The county authority | Issue certificates of competence for apprentices (not the school) | § 9-51 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Apprentices (general) | County authority | The county authority | Requirements for taking the trade/journeyman’s test | § 9-57 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Apprentices (general) | Municipality | Municipal/county authorities | Duty to set requirements for the use of apprentices in public contracts above the threshold value | § 5 | Regulations on the duty to set requirements for the use of apprentices in public contracts | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2016-12-17-1708 | |||
| Apprentices (general) | State | State authorities | Duty to set requirements for the use of apprentices in their own contracts (above NOK 1.3 million) | § 5 | Regulations on the duty to set requirements for the use of apprentices in public contracts | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2016-12-17-1708 | |||
| Apprentices (general) | State | Arbeidstilsynet | Supervision of training enterprises as employers; list of young workers | § 18-1 | Working Environment Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-17-62 | |||
| Apprentices (general) | State | Arbeidstilsynet | Requirement to keep a list of young workers; general exemption from the work ban for training | § 12-7, § 12-12 | Regulations on organisation, management and participation | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2011-12-06-1355 | |||
| Apprentices (general) | State | The ministry | Appoint advisory body, vocational councils, curriculum groups, appeal boards | § 8-1, § 8-3 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Apprentices (general) | State | Lånekassen | Right to loans/grants for apprenticeship abroad | § 34 | Regulations on educational support | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2020-04-15-798 | |||
| Apprentices (general) | Upper secondary school | The school (public upper secondary) | Register pupils for the trade or journeyman’s test, with registration to the county authority where the school is located | § 9-56 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | Apprentices are registered by the training enterprise, no later than two months before the contract period ends | ||
| Apprentices (general) | Upper secondary school | The school (public upper secondary) | May propose work tasks for the trade and journeyman’s test when the school provides an alternative to training in an enterprise | § 9-60 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | Permission. The examination board is responsible for designing the test | ||
| Apprentices (general) | Upper secondary school | The school (public upper secondary) | Issue diplomas and certificates of competence for pupils (not apprentices) | §§ 9-51, 9-54 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | The county authority issues diplomas, certificates of competence and trade certificates for apprentices | ||
| Apprentices (general) | Upper secondary school | The school (public upper secondary) | May take responsibility for a larger part of the training in cooperation with the training enterprise, when the county authority has approved the contract | § 6-3 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | Permission. The county authority’s option to organise the training in this way, not a duty for the school (Assumed/believed) | ||
| Apprentices (general) | Independent school | Independent upper secondary school | Notify the home county of the need for an apprenticeship place when the pupil has been admitted to Vg2 | § 3-1 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Apprentices (general) | Independent school | Independent upper secondary school | Assess pupils who receive another offer as an alternative to training in an enterprise under the Regulations to the Education Act chapter 9 part VIII and what is otherwise appropriate | § 6-1 | Regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-901 | |||
| Apprentices (general) | Independent school | Independent upper secondary school | May run a training enterprise for apprentices in subjects linked to the school’s operations, when the county authority has approved it | § 7-1 | Financial regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2018-09-01-1295 | Permission | ||
| Apprentices (general) | Upper secondary school | The school (public upper secondary) | No duty for upper secondary schools to approve apprenticeship contracts, arrange apprenticeship placements, provide grants or issue trade certificates | ch. 7 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | Lies with the county authority and the training enterprise | ||
| Apprentices (building/construction) | State | Arbeidstilsynet | Exemption from working time rules for 17–18-year-olds in construction technology apprenticeships (with min. 36h off) | § 12-7a | Regulations on organisation, management and participation | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2011-12-06-1355 | Building/construction | ||
| Apprentices (building/construction) | State | Arbeidstilsynet | HSE card on construction sites, also for apprentices | § 2, § 3, § 4 | Regulations on HSE cards at building and construction sites | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2007-03-30-366 | Building/construction | ||
| Apprentices (building/construction) | State | Employer/Arbeidstilsynet | Training requirements for scaffolding work, graded by height | § 17-2 to § 17-5 | Regulations on the performance of work | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2011-12-06-1357 | Building/construction | ||
| Apprentices (health) | State | The Norwegian Directorate of Health/Statens autorisasjonskontor | Authorisation as health worker (trade certificate from upper secondary gives the right to authorisation) | § 48, § 48a | Health Personnel Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/1999-07-02-64 | Health | ||
| Apprentices (health) | State | The state (regulations) | Restriction: pupils/apprentices shall only be given tasks based on training considerations | § 5 | Health Personnel Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/1999-07-02-64 | Health | ||
| Apprentices (restaurant/food) | State | The ministry | May issue regulations on exemption from the age limit for apprentices (serving alcohol) | § 1-5 | Alcohol Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/1989-06-02-27 | Restaurant/food | ||
| Apprentices (mechanics) | State | Statens vegvesen | Exemption from the approval requirement for repairs as part of upper secondary vocational training | § 6 | Regulations on work on vehicles (workshop regulations) | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2020-10-28-2170 | Mechanics/vehicles | ||
| Apprentices (mechanics) | State | Statens vegvesen | Trade certificate = entry requirement for approval as technical manager at a workshop | § 10, § 11 | Regulations on work on vehicles (workshop regulations) | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2020-10-28-2170 | Mechanics/vehicles | ||
| Apprentices (electrical) | State | DSB | Unskilled workers (including apprentices) may work on electrical installations under direct supervision | § 6 | Regulations on electrical contractors and qualification requirements (FEK) | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2013-06-19-739 | Electrical | ||
| Apprentices (ship/maritime) | State | Sjøfartsdirektoratet | Separate regulations for work/placement of young people on ships, mentions apprenticeship contracts directly | § 1, § 4, § 8 to § 11, § 15 | Regulations on work and placement of young persons on Norwegian ships | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2002-04-25-423 | Maritime/ship | ||
| Apprentices (ship/maritime) | State | Sjøfartsdirektoratet | Trade certificate as able seaman gives a reduced sea service requirement (1 year vs 3 years) | § 79, § 34, § 82, § 83 | Regulations on qualifications and certificates for seafarers | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2011-12-22-1523 | Maritime/ship | ||
| Apprentices (fisheries) | County authority | The county authority | Allocate school quotas and apprentice quotas (catch quotas) to fisheries apprentices | § 3, § 4 | Regulations on teaching quotas | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2014-12-19-1825 | Fisheries | ||
| Apprentices (fisheries) | State | Fiskeridirektoratet | Set quota units/quota sizes, appeal body for quota decisions | § 5, § 6 | Regulations on teaching quotas | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2014-12-19-1825 | Fisheries | ||
| Apprentices (fisheries) | State | Sjøfartsdirektoratet/the administration | Mandatory basic safety training (40 hours) for all fishermen | § 3 | Regulations on safety training for fishermen | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/1989-02-10-88 | Fisheries | ||
| Apprentices (petroleum) | State | Havindustritilsynet (Framework Regulations) | Absolute 18-year age limit offshore, no exemptions for apprentices | § 36 | Framework Regulations | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2010-02-12-158 | Petroleum/oil | ||
| Adult education (primary and lower secondary level) | Municipality | The municipality | Fulfil the right to primary and lower secondary education and preparatory education for adults | § 28-1 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Adult education (primary and lower secondary level) | Municipality | The municipality | Right to preparatory education, assessment of prior learning, free education | § 18-1, § 18-2, § 18-8, § 18-9 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Adult education (primary and lower secondary level) | Municipality | The municipality | Organisation as a separate provision, participation, learning environment, rules of conduct | § 19-2, § 20-1 to § 20-4 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Adult education (primary and lower secondary level) | Municipality | The municipality | Transport for participants (over 4 km or disability) | § 21-1, § 21-2 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Adult education (primary and lower secondary level) | Municipality | The municipality | Content, modular curricula, language training for minorities | § 14-1, § 14-8 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Adult education (primary and lower secondary level) | Municipality | The municipality | Assessment: module assessment, exemption, system for grades (not absence) | § 15-6, § 15-12, § 15-15 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Adult education (primary and lower secondary level) | Municipality | The municipality | Issue diplomas and certificates of competence for preparatory education | § 15-26 to § 15-28 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Adult education (primary and lower secondary level) | Municipality | The municipality | Handling of appeals on module grades and assessment of prior learning (to Statsforvalteren) | § 16-1 to § 16-4 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Adult education (primary and lower secondary level) | Municipality | The municipality | Police certificate, reporting to the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training | § 17-2, § 19-1 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Adult education (primary and lower secondary level) | Municipality | The municipality | Introduction programme and Norwegian language training for newly arrived immigrants | § 3, § 8, § 12, § 18a, § 26, § 37b | Integration Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2020-11-06-127 | |||
| Adult education (primary and lower secondary level) | Municipality | The municipality | May give grants to study associations, make premises available | § 6, § 7 | Adult Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2009-06-19-95 | |||
| Adult education (upper secondary level) | County authority | The county authority | Right to upper secondary education for adults, prior learning, requalification, apprenticeship place, supplementary programme | § 18-3 to § 18-7, § 18-10 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Adult education (upper secondary level) | County authority | The county authority | Organisation, participation, learning environment, rules of conduct, expulsion | § 19-2, § 20-1 to § 20-4 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Adult education (upper secondary level) | County authority | The county authority | Transport under the same rules as ordinary pupils up to age 24 | § 21-1 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Adult education (upper secondary level) | County authority | The county authority | Application procedure, continuous processing, assessment of prior learning, placement | § 13-3 to § 13-6 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Adult education (upper secondary level) | County authority | The county authority | Content: curricula, right to further education, approval of previous education | § 14-1, § 14-2, § 14-6, § 14-7 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Adult education (upper secondary level) | County authority | The county authority | Assessment of prior learning as final assessment; issue diploma/certificate of competence | § 15-13, § 15-31 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Adult education (upper secondary level) | County authority | The county authority | Reporting to the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training | § 19-2 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Adult education (upper secondary level) | County authority | The county authority | Regional integration work, qualification | § 4 | Integration Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2020-11-06-127 | |||
| Adult education (upper secondary level) | County authority | The county authority | May give grants to study associations | § 6, § 7 | Adult Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2009-06-19-95 | |||
| Adult education (upper secondary level) | Upper secondary school | Everyone working at the school | If possible, intervene if an adult participant is subjected to offensive behaviour | § 20-2 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Adult education (upper secondary level) | Upper secondary school | The school (public upper secondary) | Cooperate with other service providers on comprehensive provision, also for adult participants with the right to preparatory and upper secondary education | § 24-1 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Adult education (upper secondary level) | Upper secondary school | School staff and adult participants | Not wear garments that cover the face when they are with pupils or participants | § 27-2 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Adult education (upper secondary level) | Upper secondary school | The school (public upper secondary) | May obtain information about adult participants on change of school | § 20-3 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | Permission | ||
| Adult education (upper secondary level) | Independent school | Independent upper secondary school | May admit adult applicants with the right to upper secondary education, but shall prioritise young people with the right | § 3-1 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | Permission. The home county shall assess prior learning before admission. Norwegian upper secondary schools abroad may not admit adults | ||
| Adult education (upper secondary level) | Independent school | Independent upper secondary school | May admit adults without the right to upper secondary education if the school is approved for specially adapted education or is on the list, with a set maximum number | § 3-5 | Regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-901 | Permission. Adults with the right shall be prioritised over adults without the right | ||
| Adult education (upper secondary level) | Independent school | Independent upper secondary school | May apply to the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training for a quota for adults with the right to upper secondary education, within the approved number of pupils | § 3-6 | Regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-901 | Permission | ||
| Adult education (upper secondary level) | Independent school | General manager (independent upper secondary school) | Assess the formal qualifications of applicants between 19 and 24 and adults over 25 with a short period of residence, which may replace an assessment of prior learning | § 3-2 | Regulations to the Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-901 | The pupil must submit the documentation themselves | ||
| Adult education (upper secondary level) | Upper secondary school | The school (public upper secondary) | No duty for upper secondary schools to organise, offer or document education for adults, admit adults, register them for examinations or issue diplomas | ch. 18–21 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | Lies with the county authority (upper secondary) and the municipality (preparatory) | ||
| Adult education | State | The ministry | Regulations on assessment of prior learning, curricula, assessment, competence requirements for enhanced Norwegian | § 18-8, § 19-1, § 19-13 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | |||
| Adult education | State | Statsforvalteren | Appeal body for assessment of prior learning and module grades | § 16-4, § 16-5 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | |||
| Adult education | State | The ministry | Approve study associations, grant model, supervision and control | § 5, § 6, § 11 | Adult Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2009-06-19-95 | |||
| Adult education | State | IMDi | Competence mapping of resettlement refugees before entry, register | § 6, § 44 | Integration Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2020-11-06-127 | |||
| Adult education | State | IMDi | Manage the National Register of Interpreters, state authorisation of interpreters | § 17, § 18, § 20, § 21 | Interpreting Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2021-06-11-79 | |||
| Adult education | State | The ministry | Approve folk high schools for grants (adjacent form of adult education) | § 3 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | |||
| Transition upper secondary–tertiary vocational education | Upper secondary school | County authorities and others providing upper secondary education | Submit all diplomas and certificates of competence to the national diploma database | § 25-2 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | The database shall, among other things, facilitate admission to higher education and to tertiary vocational education. For public schools the duty formally lies with the county authority | ||
| Transition upper secondary–tertiary vocational education | Independent school | Independent upper secondary school | Submit results from all diplomas and certificates of competence to the national diploma database | § 7-10 | Independent Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-07-04-84 | |||
| Transition upper secondary–tertiary vocational education | Upper secondary school | The school (public upper secondary) | Issue diplomas and certificates of competence that form the basis for admission to tertiary vocational institutions | §§ 9-46, 9-51, 9-54 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | Tertiary vocational institutions require completed and passed upper secondary education, or a trade or journeyman’s certificate. The county authority issues trade certificates | ||
| Transition upper secondary–tertiary vocational education | Upper secondary school | The school (public upper secondary) | Give the right to a deferred examination in case of documented absence, on which the tertiary vocational institutions’ conditional admission is based | § 9-36 | Regulations to the Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-03-900 | Assumed/believed: the right applies independently of the tertiary vocational institutions, and the Regulations on tertiary vocational education require no confirmation from the upper secondary school | ||
| Transition upper secondary–tertiary vocational education | Upper secondary school | The school (public upper secondary) | Provide guidance on education and career choices | § 16-1 | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | Assumed/believed: the provision does not mention tertiary vocational education, but may cover the choice of a tertiary vocational institution. The duty formally lies with the municipality and the county authority | ||
| Transition upper secondary–tertiary vocational education | Upper secondary school | The school (public upper secondary) | No duty of cooperation, information or transfer between upper secondary school and tertiary vocational institution | - | Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2023-06-09-30 | Confirmed absent after search. The Independent Schools Act also does not apply to schools covered by the Vocational Education Act (§ 1-2) | ||
| Transition upper secondary–tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The board of the tertiary vocational institution | Require completed and passed upper secondary education, or a trade or journeyman’s certificate, as the basis for admission. Applicants aged 23 or older may be admitted on equivalent prior learning | § 16 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | Regulations § 7: relevant trade or journeyman’s certificate, three-year vocational education or general university admission certification (level 4), or equivalent prior learning | ||
| Transition upper secondary–tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The board of the tertiary vocational institution | May set special admission requirements, for example on specific subjects, trade certificates, grades, admission tests and authorisations | § 7 | Regulations on tertiary vocational education | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2019-07-11-1005 | Permission. Assessment of prior learning and exemption are not possible for requirements for professional approval, authorisation or certification under other legislation | ||
| Transition upper secondary–tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The tertiary vocational institution | May make exceptions from the requirement of passed upper secondary education when permanent illness, disability or similar has made it impossible to meet the requirements | § 7b | Regulations on tertiary vocational education | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2019-07-11-1005 | Permission. The institution must assess the qualifications in light of the education the applicant wishes to pursue | ||
| Transition upper secondary–tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The tertiary vocational institution | May admit applicants aged 19 or older on the basis of an admission test to arts programmes without completed upper secondary education | § 16 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | Permission. The institution must apply to the ministry, and the scheme applies to up to 30 per cent of the places (Regulations § 8) | ||
| Transition upper secondary–tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The tertiary vocational institution | May give conditional admission to applicants who have not passed the trade or journeyman’s test by the deadline, or who could not take the examination in upper secondary due to special circumstances | §§ 10, 11 | Regulations on tertiary vocational education | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2019-07-11-1005 | Permission | ||
| Transition upper secondary–tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The tertiary vocational institution | Make it possible for the student both to take the trade or journeyman’s test or deferred examination in upper secondary and to complete the tertiary vocational programme, or extend the conditional admission | §§ 10, 11 | Regulations on tertiary vocational education | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2019-07-11-1005 | The student loses the study place and study right if the admission requirement is not met during the first semester | ||
| Transition upper secondary–tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The tertiary vocational institution | Set language requirements for applicants with upper secondary education from countries outside the Nordic region, and determine whether the requirement is B1 or B2 in Norwegian and whether there is a language requirement in English | § 9 | Regulations on tertiary vocational education | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2019-07-11-1005 | Applicants from other Nordic countries are qualified without additional requirements in Norwegian | ||
| Transition upper secondary–tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The tertiary vocational institution | Rank qualified applicants by points calculated from the grades in the qualifying documentation, with extra points for a trade or journeyman’s certificate | §§ 14 to 16 | Regulations on tertiary vocational education | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2019-07-11-1005 | |||
| Transition upper secondary–tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The tertiary vocational institution | Rank applicants who cannot be awarded points by individual discretionary assessment | § 17 | Regulations on tertiary vocational education | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2019-07-11-1005 | The institution sets the discretionary criteria itself | ||
| Transition upper secondary–tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The tertiary vocational institution | May obtain diplomas and documentation from public diploma systems and from county authority institutions | § 4 | Regulations on tertiary vocational education | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2019-07-11-1005 | Permission | ||
| Transition upper secondary–tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The tertiary vocational institution | May transfer diplomas and grades to the national database for diplomas and documentation of competence | § 41 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | Permission | ||
| Transition upper secondary–tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The tertiary vocational institution | No duties towards upper secondary schools as institutions (cooperation, guidance or information) | - | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | Confirmed absent after search | ||
| Tertiary vocational education | County authority | The county authority | Ensure that accredited tertiary vocational education is offered according to competence needs | § 3 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | County authority | The county authority | May receive applications for and award public grants | § 29 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | The tertiary vocational institution’s right to apply, not an unconditional duty | ||
| Tertiary vocational education | Municipality | None | No statutory duties found for the municipality | - | Vocational Education Act / Regulations on tertiary vocational education | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | Confirmed absent after search | ||
| Tertiary vocational education | State | NOKUT | Accredits institutions, subject areas and tertiary vocational programmes; supervision | § 4b, § 5, § 5a to § 5c | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | State | NOKUT | Own delegated authority to issue regulations on accreditation/quality assurance | § 54 | Regulations on tertiary vocational education | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2019-07-11-1005 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | State | The ministry | Recognise foreign tertiary vocational education, appeals board, protection of titles | § 6, § 7, § 7a, § 7b | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | State | The ministry | Supervise private tertiary vocational institutions, orders, coercive fines, repayment, withdrawal | § 29 to § 38 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | State | Arbeidstilsynet | Supervision of the learning environment (physical/psychological) | § 15 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | State | Nasjonalt studentombud | Advice and assistance to tertiary vocational students | § 28b | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | State | Nasjonal klagenemnd for høyere yrkesfaglig utdanning | Handling of appeals (admission, annulment, expulsion, suitability, police certificate) | § 43 to § 45a | Regulations on tertiary vocational education | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2019-07-11-1005 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | State | HK-dir | Organise coordinated admission, data controller for the national admission service | § 3, § 5 | Regulations on tertiary vocational education | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2019-07-11-1005 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | State | HK-dir | Process applications for recognition of foreign tertiary vocational education (authenticity check) | § 56 to § 58 | Regulations on tertiary vocational education | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2019-07-11-1005 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | State | The ministry | Suitability system: criteria, board, additional criteria | § 26 to § 36 | Regulations on tertiary vocational education | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2019-07-11-1005 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | State | The ministry | Set degree titles (Fagskolegrad, Høyere fagskolegrad), 3-year exception | § 41, § 42 | Regulations on tertiary vocational education | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2019-07-11-1005 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | State | Lånekassen | Approve education for support, administer educational support for tertiary vocational students | § 4, § 16, § 19, § 24 | Educational Support Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-03-37 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | State | The ministry | Decides which student welfare organisation the institution is affiliated with | § 4 | Student Welfare Organisations Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2007-12-14-116 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The tertiary vocational institution | Hold accreditation to offer tertiary vocational education, and offer education at a level above upper secondary that is practice-oriented and in line with the National Qualifications Framework | §§ 4, 5 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The tertiary vocational institution | Have education corresponding to up to two years full-time, and three years only following a decision by the ministry | § 4a | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | The ministry requires a documented need for authorisation or certification (the regulations § 42) | ||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The tertiary vocational institution | Have a satisfactory internal quality assurance system with student evaluations, which contributes to quality development and occupational relevance and reveals failing quality | § 5 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | See also the regulations § 49 | ||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The tertiary vocational institution | Facilitate NOKUT’s supervision and provide the information NOKUT requires | § 5a | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | See also the regulations § 53 | ||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The board of the tertiary vocational institution | Implement measures, approved by NOKUT, that allow students on a discontinued programme to complete it | § 5a | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The tertiary vocational institution | Use the terms fagskole and fagskoleutdanning only when the school is accredited, and not market itself as accredited without being so | § 6 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The tertiary vocational institution | Document a guarantee or insurance scheme that refunds tuition fees in the event of closure, and have graduated candidates for at least two years, to obtain accreditation for a subject area | § 48 | Regulations on tertiary vocational education | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2019-07-11-1005 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The tertiary vocational institution | Use credits and issue diplomas stating the number of credits, assessment expressions (pass/fail or A–F) and the degree titles Fagskolegrad and Høyere fagskolegrad | §§ 17a, 19 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | See also the regulations §§ 40 and 41 | ||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The board of the tertiary vocational institution | Have its own board as the highest responsible body and decide before the start of studies that it is sound to admit new students | § 9 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The board of the tertiary vocational institution | Ensure that students receive the education the school is accredited for, that conditions for public grants are met, and that information and guidance to NOKUT, students and applicants are correct and complete | § 9 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The board of the tertiary vocational institution | Set requirements for teacher competence, instructor competence and management, and have internal control | § 9 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The board of the tertiary vocational institution | Have at least seven members, of whom at least two from working life or industry, at least one elected by and from among the employees and at least one by and from among the students | § 10 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The board of the tertiary vocational institution | Appoint a headteacher with the necessary professional and leadership competence after students and employees have been consulted | § 12 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | Private tertiary vocational institutions | Be organised as a foundation or limited company, and all tertiary vocational institutions shall be registered in Enhetsregisteret | § 13 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The board of the tertiary vocational institution | Facilitate the student bodies, consult them in all matters concerning the students and ensure student representation in all collegial bodies with decision-making authority | § 14 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The board of the tertiary vocational institution | Have overall responsibility for a sound, inclusive physical and psychosocial learning environment and work against harassment and sexual harassment | § 15 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The tertiary vocational institution | Give students with disabilities and special needs individual accommodation of place of study, teaching, learning materials and examinations | § 15 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | Does not apply to accommodation that entails a disproportionate burden | ||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The tertiary vocational institution | Ensure students’ right to report censurable conditions, without retaliation | § 15 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | Students and employees | Not wear garments covering the face in connection with teaching | § 43 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | Employees who break the ban shall be asked to remove the garment | ||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The board of the tertiary vocational institution | Issue regulations on admission to the individual tertiary vocational institution with requirements for formal education or equivalent prior learning (realkompetanse) | § 16 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The tertiary vocational institution | Organise admission to public tertiary vocational institutions through the coordinated admission (private tertiary vocational institutions may participate) | § 3 | Regulations on tertiary vocational education | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2019-07-11-1005 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The tertiary vocational institution | Grant students deferral of the start of studies for up to two years in the event of illness, pregnancy, military service or other weighty reasons | § 13 | Regulations on tertiary vocational education | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2019-07-11-1005 | The application shall be submitted within three weeks of the offer | ||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The tertiary vocational institution | Offer vacant study places to applicants on the waiting list, and may offer them to qualified applicants regardless of ranking ten days after the start of studies | § 14 | Regulations on tertiary vocational education | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2019-07-11-1005 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The tertiary vocational institution | Report applicants who have submitted false documents to the police, confiscate the documents and annul admission granted on a false basis | § 16a | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | The applicant may be refused admission for up to one year. Decisions are made by the board or the appeals committee with a two-thirds majority | ||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The tertiary vocational institution | Provide information about the police certificate requirement before admission and in the offer of a place, and require the certificate to be submitted within four weeks | §§ 19 to 21 | Regulations on tertiary vocational education | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2019-07-11-1005 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The tertiary vocational institution | Credit passed courses from other accredited tertiary vocational programmes within the same or closely related subject areas, without double credit | § 8 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The tertiary vocational institution | May grant exemption from courses on the basis of other documented education and competence, including prior learning (realkompetanse) | § 8 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | Permission. See also the regulations § 37 | ||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The board of the tertiary vocational institution | Set a plan for the content of the education with compulsory courses, practical training and forms of assessment | § 17 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The tertiary vocational institution | Issue diplomas for completed education and, on request, transcripts of grades for passed courses | § 19 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | The student must have earned credits at the school corresponding to the smallest result-bearing unit (the regulations § 38) | ||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The board of the tertiary vocational institution | Ensure impartial and academically sound assessment with external evaluation of the assessment arrangements, appoint examiners and give grades within three weeks | § 21 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The board of the tertiary vocational institution | Issue regulations on the conduct of examinations and tests | § 21 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The tertiary vocational institution | Give students the grounds for a grade within two weeks and conduct a new assessment on appeal, with at least one external examiner | §§ 21, 22 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The board of the tertiary vocational institution | Process appeals concerning formal errors in examinations | § 23 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The tertiary vocational institution | Establish a local appeals committee with five members, where the chair meets the requirements for a court of appeal judge and two members are students | § 20 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The board of the tertiary vocational institution | May annul examinations in the event of cheating or false documents, expel and exclude students and exclude them from clinical teaching | §§ 24, 25, 27 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | Permission. Decisions require a two-thirds majority and the student’s right to be heard | ||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The tertiary vocational institution | Carry out ongoing suitability assessment of students on the programmes covered and inform the students at the start of studies | § 26 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | The board appoints a suitability committee and a suitability officer (the regulations §§ 31, 32) | ||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The tertiary vocational institution | Require a police certificate from students who may come into contact with minors during practical training, and process certificates with remarks within deadlines | § 27 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | See the regulations §§ 22 and 23 | ||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The tertiary vocational institution | Give pregnant students the right to a deferred examination, and give students leave for childbirth, care, military service and elected positions | §§ 28, 28a | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | Private tertiary vocational institutions | Use public grants and student payments for the accredited education, let the funds benefit the students and not make distributions | § 29 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | Private tertiary vocational institutions | Enter into agreements with related parties only on terms that would have been set between independent parties, and be able to document this | § 30 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | Private tertiary vocational institutions | Assist in the ministry’s supervision, provide information and give access to the premises | § 31 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | Private tertiary vocational institutions | Report accounting information and data on study programmes, students and staff, and give notice before a merger, sale, conversion or winding-up | § 32 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | Private tertiary vocational institutions | Keep accounts in accordance with the Accounting Act, be audited by a state-authorised or registered auditor and keep a financial separation between accredited and non-accredited activities | § 33 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | |||
| Tertiary vocational education | Tertiary vocational institution | The tertiary vocational institution | Report personal data on applicants, students and employees to the database for statistics on tertiary vocational education | § 42 | Vocational Education Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-08-28 | HK-dir is the data controller | ||
| Folk high school | Municipality | The host municipality | Must support the application for approval of a folk high school (except its own municipal school) | § 3 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | |||
| Folk high school | Municipality | The municipality (as possible school owner) | May own/run a folk high school itself (exempt from the limited company/foundation requirement etc.) | § 7, § 9, § 13 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | |||
| Folk high school | Municipality | The municipality (environmental health – uncertain) | Possibly general supervision of activities/boarding facilities that may affect health | § 2, § 4 | Regulations on environmental health | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2003-04-25-486 | Uncertain whether this or the school regulations apply to folk high schools | ||
| Folk high school | County authority | The host county | Must support the application for approval (except its own county school) | § 3 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | |||
| Folk high school | County authority | The county authority (as possible school owner) | May own/run a folk high school itself | § 7, § 9, § 13 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | |||
| Folk high school | State | The ministry | Approve schools for grants, grant model, pupil number requirements | § 3, § 4, § 6 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | |||
| Folk high school | State | The ministry | Supervision, orders to rectify, withholding/repayment of grants | § 21, § 22 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | |||
| Folk high school | State | The ministry | Trial activities, qualification requirements for teaching staff | § 20, § 23 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | |||
| Folk high school | State | Nasjonalt elevombud | Advice and guidance to folk high school pupils | § 11 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | |||
| Folk high school | State | Arbeidstilsynet | Supervision of the living and learning environment | § 15 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | |||
| Folk high school | State | The ministry | Grant model (basic, per pupil, interest), setting of capacity | § 10, § 11, § 12, § 13, § 6 | Folk High Schools Regulations | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2025-08-21-1693 | |||
| Folk high school | State | The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training | Receive reporting of pupil numbers and course activities | § 14 | Folk High Schools Regulations | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2025-08-21-1693 | |||
| Folk high school | State | Folkehøgskolerådet | Make recommendations on grants for interest payments (new buildings/renovation) | § 10 | Folk High Schools Regulations | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2025-08-21-1693 | |||
| Folk high school | State | Riksrevisjonen | Access to documentation on the use of grants | § 17 | Folk High Schools Regulations | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2025-08-21-1693 | |||
| Folk high school | State | Lånekassen | Approve courses for educational support, administer loans/grants | § 4, § 16, § 18, § 24 | Educational Support Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-03-37 | |||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The folk high school | Have «folkehøgskole» in its name, and only use the name when the school is approved for grants | § 7 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | |||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The folk high school | Be registered with its own organisation number in Enhetsregisteret and be a limited company or foundation | § 7 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | Does not apply to municipal and county schools | ||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The folk high school | Have at least 35 pupils annually on average over four years | § 6 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | |||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The folk high school | Be examination-free, but may facilitate pupils taking upper secondary education in subjects as part of the course programme | § 14 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | |||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The board of the folk high school | Be the highest responsible body, with pupils and employees guaranteed representation and the right to speak, make proposals and vote | § 8 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | The owner determines the composition. A minority on the board may appeal decisions | ||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The board of the folk high school | Be responsible for the school being run in accordance with acts and regulations | § 9 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | |||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The board of the folk high school | Ensure that pupils receive the course offering assumed as the basis for the approval, and that conditions for public grants are met | § 9 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | |||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The board of the folk high school | Set admission and school rules and establish a body that handles cases of breaches of the school rules | § 9 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | |||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The board of the folk high school | Have internal control and a system for quality assurance and quality development adapted to the school’s distinctive character | § 9 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | |||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The board of the folk high school | Appoint the headteacher and ensure that the school’s employees have the right competence | § 9 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | |||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The board of the folk high school | Ensure that the school has a pupil council and decide which other councils and bodies are needed for democratic rights and sound operation | § 9 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | |||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The board of the folk high school | Before the school year starts, decide that it is sound to start up and make the decision publicly available | § 9 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | |||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The board of the folk high school | Set the amount of the pupil payment | § 9 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | Does not apply to municipal and county schools | ||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The folk high school | Have a headteacher as the leader with pedagogical and administrative responsibility | § 10 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | |||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The folk high school | Require a police certificate from those to be employed and not employ persons convicted of sexual abuse of minors | § 12 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | Other remarks must be assessed specifically | ||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The folk high school | Employ teachers who meet the competence requirements for teaching in primary and lower secondary school or upper secondary school | § 18 | Folk High Schools Regulations | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2025-08-21-1693 | If needed, the school may employ on its own qualification requirements | ||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The folk high school | Prepare a procedure for self-evaluation and quality development and an annual self-evaluation report that is public | § 13 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | Employees and pupils shall participate | ||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The folk high school | Prepare a public annual report | § 13 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | Does not apply to municipal and county schools | ||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The folk high school | Have courses lasting at least 16.5 weeks and prepare a public course plan for each course | § 14 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | |||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The folk high school | Give pupils a teaching programme of at least 24 hours a week | § 4 | Folk High Schools Regulations | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2025-08-21-1693 | Saturday is normally a school day, and teaching shall normally be at least four hours each day | ||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The folk high school | Have courses included in the grant basis open to all, published and documentable, each course as an independent unit | § 3 | Folk High Schools Regulations | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2025-08-21-1693 | |||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The folk high school | Have a boarding facility as an integral part of the learning programme, and as a rule let the pupils live there | § 14 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | See also the regulations § 6. The school may make exceptions in special cases | ||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The folk high school | Place study trips with overnight stays in a pedagogical context and do preparatory and follow-up work at the school | § 14 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | |||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The folk high school | Have at most ten per cent pupils from countries outside the EEA and the United Kingdom with a residence permit for studies | § 5 | Folk High Schools Regulations | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2025-08-21-1693 | |||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The folk high school | Prepare documentation of the pupils’ learning programme and participation, which provides a basis for assessment of prior learning (realkompetanse) | § 14 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | |||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The folk high school | Ensure a sound living and learning environment based on the pupils’ health, safety and welfare, and cooperate with the pupil council | § 15 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | |||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The folk high school | Set admission rules showing the prioritisation of applicants in the event of oversubscription, and decide admission according to them | § 16 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | The admission rules shall be public. Decisions on admission are individual decisions | ||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The folk high school | Begin admission of pupils from 15 November of the year before the start, and have rolling admission up to the start if there is vacant capacity | § 3 | Folk High Schools Regulations | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2025-08-21-1693 | |||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The folk high school | Set public school rules on rights, duties, order and conduct, sanctions and case processing | § 17 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | |||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The board of the folk high school | May set out in the school rules that pupils may be suspended or expelled, and decide the cases through the body for breaches of the school rules, with the headteacher present | § 19 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | Permission. Other measures shall have been considered. The decisions are individual decisions, and the board is the appeal body | ||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | Pupils and teachers | Not wear clothing that covers the face during teaching and on trips, with exceptions. The board determines sanctions in advance | § 18 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | The board shall order teachers who breach the ban to remove the garment | ||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The folk high school | Give all pupils documentation of a completed course of at least 16.5 weeks with information on absence and percentage attendance | § 7 | Folk High Schools Regulations | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2025-08-21-1693 | |||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The folk high school | Have a system for recording absence in days and individual lessons, and let pupils require that up to 15 days (33 weeks) or 7.5 days (16.5 weeks) are not recorded on the diploma for documented absence | § 9 | Folk High Schools Regulations | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2025-08-21-1693 | Applies among other things to political work, statutory attendance, health and welfare reasons, relief work, religious holidays and representation | ||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The headteacher or general manager | May decide that a pupil with up to 20 per cent undocumented absence still has the course approved when it is clearly unreasonable otherwise | § 8 | Folk High Schools Regulations | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2025-08-21-1693 | Permission. Pupils with more than ten per cent absence have as a rule not completed | ||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The folk high school | Not use public grants and pupil payments in ways that transfer dividends or surpluses to the owners or their related parties, and let all grants benefit the pupils | § 5 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | |||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The folk high school | Report pupil numbers as of 1 October and 1 April to the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training within 14 days, and shorter courses by 15 January the following year | § 14 | Folk High Schools Regulations | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2025-08-21-1693 | Reports on course activities are submitted within deadlines set by the ministry | ||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The folk high school | Keep accounts under the Accounting Act with a separate account for state grants and departmental accounts, and send annual accounts, annual report and auditor’s report to the ministry by 1 June | § 15 | Folk High Schools Regulations | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2025-08-21-1693 | County authority schools may keep accounts under the Local Government Act | ||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The folk high school | Be audited by a state-authorised auditor who also confirms the pupil numbers, and make the auditor familiar with the Act and the regulations | § 16 | Folk High Schools Regulations | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2025-08-21-1693 | |||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The folk high school | Be responsible for public grants being used correctly, document all matters affecting the grant and keep documentation for ten years | § 17 | Folk High Schools Regulations | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2025-08-21-1693 | The documentation shall be available to the auditor, the ministry and the Office of the Auditor General | ||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The folk high school | Document pupils with reduced functional ability who trigger an additional grant and consider an adapted programme in cooperation with the applicant and an educational, social or medical body | § 12 | Folk High Schools Regulations | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2025-08-21-1693 | |||
| Folk high school | Folk high school | The folk high school | Give the ministry access to school premises and documentation during supervision, including documentation from the owner and related parties | § 21 | Folk High Schools Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2025-06-20-99 | |||
| Transition upper secondary–higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Require general university admission certification (completed and passed general studies upper secondary education) for admission, with diploma and subject requirements in Norwegian, English, mathematics, science, social studies and history | § 8-1 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | Regulations on admission to higher education § 2-1. Specific subject requirements from upper secondary are set by the ministry for certain programmes (ch. 4) | ||
| Transition upper secondary–higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Assess whether other education or documentation can be approved as equivalent to what is required | §§ 2-1, 4-1 | Regulations on admission to higher education | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2017-01-06-13 | |||
| Transition upper secondary–higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Assess applicants aged 25 or older without general university admission certification on the basis of prior learning (realkompetanse) | § 3-1 | Regulations on admission to higher education | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2017-01-06-13 | The applicant is entitled to an assessment | ||
| Transition upper secondary–higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | May grant exemption from the requirement of general university admission certification when permanent illness or disability has made it impossible to meet the requirements | § 3-2 | Regulations on admission to higher education | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2017-01-06-13 | Permission | ||
| Transition upper secondary–higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | May admit applicants with a relevant trade or journeyman’s certificate without general university admission certification to specially adapted programmes | §§ 3-3, 3-7, 3-8, 3-9, 3-11 | Regulations on admission to higher education | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2017-01-06-13 | Permission. Applies among other things to engineering, aquaculture, nautical science, marine engineering, paramedicine and service management at the University of Inland Norway | ||
| Transition upper secondary–higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Grant conditional admission to applicants who have been unable to take upper secondary exams due to special circumstances, and arrange for them to take a deferred exam and complete the programme | § 5-1 | Regulations on admission to higher education | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2017-01-06-13 | The student loses the study place and right to study if the requirement is not met by the deadline | ||
| Transition upper secondary–higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Require documentation of Norwegian and English for applicants with foreign upper secondary education, and may accept other documentation of Norwegian proficiency | § 2-2 | Regulations on admission to higher education | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2017-01-06-13 | |||
| Transition upper secondary–higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Rank applicants by points from upper secondary, with a quota for first-time diplomas (50 per cent of places) and additional points for science, foreign languages and age | §§ 7-2, 7-5, 7-8, 7-10 | Regulations on admission to higher education | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2017-01-06-13 | The ranking is in practice done by the national admission service for participating programmes (Assumed/believed) | ||
| Transition upper secondary–higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Rank applicants who cannot be given points by individual assessment, and give special consideration to applicants where another mother tongue, illness or disability means the grades do not give a true picture | §§ 7-12, 7-13 | Regulations on admission to higher education | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2017-01-06-13 | |||
| Transition upper secondary–higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | May obtain diplomas and documentation from public diploma systems and from county authority institutions | § 10-1 | Regulations on admission to higher education | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2017-01-06-13 | Permission | ||
| Transition upper secondary–higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | No duties towards upper secondary schools as a school type (cooperation, guidance or information) | - | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | Confirmed absent after search. Framework plans for teacher education have not been read | ||
| Higher education | Municipality | None | No statutory tasks found | - | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | Confirmed absent after search | ||
| Higher education | County authority | None | No statutory tasks found | - | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | Confirmed absent after search | ||
| Higher education | State | The King | Regulations on scope, decides institution category, closure of study locations, dismisses the board | § 1-2, § 3-1, § 4-1, § 4-10 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | State | The ministry | Determine proper names, remuneration of board members, appoint board chairs | § 3-1, § 4-1, § 4-4 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | State | The ministry | State grants, supervision, orders, coercive fines, infringement fines, withdrawal of accreditation (private) | § 6-1 to § 6-10 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | State | The ministry | General recognition of foreign higher education; licence for state-authorised translators | § 9-7, § 3-12 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | State | The ministry | Infringement fines for misuse of degree titles/institution designations | § 3-10, § 3-11 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | State | The ministry | Establish national appeal boards; register of sanctions | § 14-2, § 12-11 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | State | The ministry | Order reporting to databases (research information, statistics, diploma portal) | § 15-1 to § 15-3 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | State | NOKUT | Accreditation of institutions/programmes, periodic supervision, evaluations | § 3-2 to § 3-6, § 16-1 to § 16-4 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | State | Arbeidstilsynet | Supervision of the physical and psychosocial learning environment | § 10-9 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | State | Digitaliseringsdirektoratet | Supervision of the digital learning environment | § 10-9 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | State | The Sami Parliament | Appoints two external board members at the Sami University of Applied Sciences | § 4-4 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | State | Kulturdirektoratet | Proposes external board members for arts universities | § 4-4 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | State | The Norwegian Directorate of Health | Receive notification of exclusion decisions relevant to authorisation | § 12-6 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | State | The police | Receive reports on the use of forged documents | § 12-1 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | State | HK-dir | Organise Samordna opptak, national appeal board for admission | § 8-1 (ch. 8) | Regulations on admission to higher education | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2017-01-06-13 | |||
| Higher education | State | Lånekassen | Administer educational support for students | entire act | Educational Support Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-06-03-37 | |||
| Higher education | State | The ministry | All higher education institutions shall (mandatorily) be affiliated with a student welfare organisation | § 4 | Student Welfare Organisations Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2007-12-14-116 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Offer higher education based on the forefront of research, carry out research and development work, disseminate results, contribute to lifelong learning and cooperate with relevant actors | § 2-1 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Promote and protect academic freedom and ensure that teaching and research maintain a high academic standard, and ensure openness about research results | § 2-2 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Use, develop and strengthen Norwegian academic language, Bokmål and Nynorsk, with Norwegian or Sami as the language of instruction and academically justified exceptions | § 2-3 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Keep in-person lectures open to the public, with exceptions for special considerations or tuition fees | § 2-4 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | State institutions | Not charge tuition fees for ordinary programmes leading to a degree or professional qualification, and charge tuition fees to students from countries outside the EEA and Switzerland with the exceptions in the regulations | §§ 2-5, 2-6 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | See also the regulations chapter 4 | ||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Have accreditation for its programmes, and document that the standards are met in self-accreditation within the limits of institution category and degree-awarding powers | §§ 3-2, 3-4 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Have a satisfactory internal system for assuring and developing educational quality with student evaluations | § 3-5 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | See the regulations §§ 1-7 and 1-8 | ||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Have a written quality system covering all programmes, with responsibilities, procedures for checking and correcting deficient quality, learning environment and student evaluations | § 1-7 | Universities and University Colleges Regulations | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-28-1392 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Systematically check that all programmes meet the accreditation requirements and carry out periodic evaluations with students, working life and external peers | § 1-8 | Universities and University Colleges Regulations | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-28-1392 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Facilitate NOKUT’s supervision and provide the information NOKUT requires | § 3-6 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | See also the regulations § 1-24 | ||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Implement measures allowing students to complete when NOKUT withdraws the accreditation of a programme, approved by NOKUT | § 1-23 | Universities and University Colleges Regulations | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-28-1392 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Meet the conditions for accreditation of programmes, among other things a descriptive name, learning outcomes under the qualifications framework, 1500–1800 hours per year, an academic community with at least 50 per cent main positions, a placement agreement where there is practical training | §§ 1-11 to 1-15 | Universities and University Colleges Regulations | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-28-1392 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | For joint degrees, ensure that the partner institutions are accredited or recognised, enter into a cooperation agreement and ensure that students can complete upon termination | § 1-17 | Universities and University Colleges Regulations | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-28-1392 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Only issue diplomas for degrees and professional qualifications the institution has the right to award, and only use degree titles and institution designations it has the right to use | §§ 3-7, 3-8, 3-10, 3-11 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Issue diplomas and Diploma Supplements, and documentation of results to students who have not completed | § 11-12 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | At least 60 of the credits must have been taken at the institution | ||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Require independent work of at least 30 credits in master’s degrees and set rules on scope and form of assessment | §§ 2-6, 2-9 | Universities and University Colleges Regulations | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-28-1392 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | The institution’s board | Set strategy, goals and performance requirements, ensure prudent use of resources, submit annual accounts and budget and issue written instructions for the executive management (state institutions) | § 4-1 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | The institution’s board | Determine internal organisation at all levels so that students and staff are heard, and set board instructions and be open about its work | §§ 4-1, 4-8 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Private institutions | Be a limited company or foundation with a board including representatives of students and staff, and be open about its work | § 5-1 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Private institutions (the board) | Have internal control, ensure that students receive the education intended, and resolve before each academic year that it is prudent to start | § 5-1 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Private institutions | Use state grants and tuition fees for accredited programmes, let them benefit the students and not make distributions | § 6-2 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Private institutions | Not enter into agreements with related parties on deviating terms, and be able to document this | § 6-3 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Private institutions | Facilitate the ministry’s supervision, report accounts and give notice before merger, demerger, sale, conversion or winding-up | §§ 6-4, 6-5 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Private institutions | Comply with the Accounting Act, be audited and keep a financial separation between accredited and non-accredited activities | § 6-6 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Work actively for equality and prevent discrimination, and advertise teaching and research positions with qualification requirements and appoint on the basis of expert assessment | §§ 7-1, 7-2 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Set more detailed requirements for teaching competence and qualification and documentation requirements for appointment and promotion | §§ 3-8, 3-10 | Universities and University Colleges Regulations | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-28-1392 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Give postdoctoral fellows and research fellows a career plan, follow-up, career guidance and free Norwegian language training, and research fellows at least three person-years for doctoral work | §§ 3-18, 3-19 | Universities and University Colleges Regulations | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-28-1392 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Give staff on entry-level terms research resources and guidance, a mid-term assessment within four years and a final assessment before the fixed term expires | §§ 3-26 to 3-28 | Universities and University Colleges Regulations | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-28-1392 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Admit applicants with general university admission certification, and may admit applicants aged 25 or older on the basis of prior learning (realkompetanse) | §§ 8-1, 8-2 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Have its own admission to higher degree programmes, and may regulate admission to an individual programme within the ministry’s framework | §§ 8-3, 8-5 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Recognise education from other Norwegian universities and university colleges with the same number of credits when the learning outcomes are equivalent | § 9-1 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | May recognise other education, foreign education that is not higher education and documented prior learning (realkompetanse) | §§ 9-2, 9-3 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | Permission. Foreign higher education from states that have ratified the Lisbon Recognition Convention shall be recognised unless substantial differences are shown | ||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Coordinate practice for recognition of foreign higher education and register the decisions in the coordination register | § 9-9 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Ensure a sound learning environment, document the work in the quality system and cooperate with the student welfare organisation | § 10-1 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Ensure universal design of physical surroundings and ICT, and work to prevent harassment and sexual harassment | §§ 10-2, 10-3 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Provide individual accommodation, deferred exams and leave for pregnancy and care, and ensure that students have access to a student ombud | §§ 10-5, 10-6, 10-8 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Have at least one learning environment committee and facilitate student bodies, and ensure that students make up at least 20 per cent of collegial bodies with decision-making authority | §§ 10-10 to 10-12 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Set programme descriptions, ensure good academic follow-up and draw up an individual education plan for programmes of 60 credits or more | §§ 11-1, 11-3 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Ensure impartial and academically sound assessment with an external examiner or external evaluation, and let oral exams in principle be public | § 11-6 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Appoint examiners, at least two examiners for larger independent work, write examiner guidelines and give results within 15 working days | § 11-7 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Give an explanation of grades within two weeks, handle appeals on formal errors and carry out appeal marking with at least two new examiners, one of them external | §§ 11-8 to 11-11 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Prepare Norwegian-language exam papers in both Nynorsk and Bokmål, with the possibility of exceptions | § 5-1 | Universities and University Colleges Regulations | https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-28-1392 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Confiscate forged documents, refuse admission, annul admission granted on false grounds and report the matter to the police | § 12-1 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | Decisions are made by the board or the board for student cases with a two-thirds majority | ||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Require a police certificate for admission to programmes with clinical teaching or practical training, and inform about the requirement in the offer of a study place | § 12-2 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | The regulations chapter 6: the certificate is submitted within three weeks and is not older than three months | ||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Carry out continuous suitability assessment for the programmes listed in the regulations, inform students at the start of studies, and appoint a suitability board and a suitability officer | § 12-3 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | See the regulations chapter 7 | ||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Notify the Norwegian Directorate of Health when a student is excluded from a programme that can lead to authorisation, and the relevant authority when annulling a diploma that can form the basis for authorisation | §§ 12-4, 12-6 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Cover legal fees and costs of judicial review in exclusion cases | §§ 12-9, 12-10 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Register decisions on exclusion, suitability and similar in the register for exchange of information on sanctions | § 12-11 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | See the regulations § 10-1 | ||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Establish at least one board for student cases with five members, including two students, and a chair who meets the requirements for a court of appeal judge | § 14-1 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 | |||
| Higher education | Higher education institution | Higher education institution | Report to national databases (research information and statistics on higher education) when the ministry orders it | §§ 15-2, 15-3 | Universities and University Colleges Act | https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-03-08-9 |