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NOKUT - The Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education NOKUT is an independent public agency, established by law in 2002, with the task of carrying out external quality assurance of higher education and tertiary vocational education in Norway.
NOKUT performs this task through a variety of mechanisms:
Accreditation of higher education institutions
Accreditation of higher education programmes and courses
Revision of accreditation
Evaluation of internal quality assurance in higher education institutions
Evaluation of specific types of educational provision or defined aspects of such
Recognition of tertiary vocational education
General recognition of foreign qualifications.
As the Norwegian ENIC-NARIC centre NOKUT considers applications for general recognition of foreign qualifications. The agency is also responsible for providing foreign institutions and partners with information about the Norwegian educational system and the procedures for recognition of foreign higher education qualifications.
