The University Board

The University Board has the overall responsibility for ensuring that USN has a satisfactory quality system for education.

The University Board

Efforts involving the quality of education are an institutional responsibility, and the University Board has the overall responsibility for ensuring that the university is organised in such a manner that efforts involving the quality of education are practiced in an appropriate and planned manner. The Board has the overall responsibility for stipulating goals, performance requirements and management signals, and shall monitor follow-ups and results. 

The Board:

  • Stipulates and amends strategies and action plans
  • Sets provisions for the university’s quality assurance efforts concerning the educational activities
  • Considers the Report on Educational Attainments about the university’s efforts concerning the quality of education, and provides provisions and management signals for areas of commitment and priorities for the next period
  • Initiates larger evaluations of academic environments and programmes of study
  • Stipulates and amends regulations pertaining to admission, academic studies and examinations, and central guidelines for educational activities
  • Establishes and discontinues programmes of study and programme options
  • Stipulates supplementary designations for degrees
  • Adopts the admission capacity and dimensioning of programmes of study
  • Determines which faculty is responsible for each programme of study
  • Assesses performance attainment and adopts the budget and management signals in accordance with the goal attainment 

 

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