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Government plans to relax criteria for higher education institutes to become universities
The Norwegian government has said it will streamline the process by which a higher education institution can win recognition as a university.
The plans, announced on 11 June, will come into effect in 2025. They include reducing the number of doctoral programmes a university must offer to be able to call itself a university from four to one. Other accreditation requirements will also be updated to make the process less bureaucratic.
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