New directorate to promote coordination, coherence in HE and skills
Norway is to launch a Directorate of Higher Education and Skills on 1 July, and has announced the appointment of Sveinung Skule as its director-general. “A main goal is to contribute to greater coordination and coherence within the area of higher education and skills policy, across vocational schools, university colleges and universities,” Skule told
University World News.
Another goal was to “administer a broad array of programmes and measures efficiently to the benefit of the education sector and working life. Internally as well as towards relevant sectors, we must continue to develop digital ways of working that we established during the pandemic.”