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Agency supervision - important decisions 2002-2003

The decisions particularly emphasise the assessments made by the agency. Readability is facilitated by sparse textual content. For more information on regulations and other matters dealt with, but not taken up in the synopsis, refer to the fully reported decisions on the agency’s web site: www.hsv.se.

One of the main tasks of the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education is to have insight into university and university college management. In doing so it protects the rights of the individual by keeping an eye on how the universities and university colleges adhere to the laws and ordinances related to their higher educational activities.

The Swedish National Agency for Higher Education operates this supervision in different ways and for the most part is generated via reports submitted to the agency mainly from students or student unions. The supervision is also based on initiatives taken, self-initiated projects and observations made during its supervisory visits. The main work is devoted to processing reports about which the universities and university colleges have an opportunity to comment. A decision is finally made in which the agency states its assessment of the legal position and, if there are grounds for doing so, to directly criticise the higher education institute concerned. The Swedish National Agency for Higher Education cannot, however, alter a decision made by a university or university college on a particular matter.

This overall report is divided into sections that cover most of the areas highlighted, above all, by submissions, such as matters related to course admission, credits, exams, student influence and post-graduate research.