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Quality development in the Norwegian music and art schools
Even Fossum Svendsen
Organisation: Norsk KulturskolerĂĄd (Norwegian Council for Music and Art Schools )
Project: KUP (quality development project in the music and art schools)
System: �Kvalitetsutvikling i kulturskolen� (quality development in the music and art school)
From the Norwegian government there is a strong focus on efficiency, quality and better service to the public. It have been launched a national modernisation program, based on the ideas of new public management. In the education sector, it has been many examples on how this wave of modernisation has been put into action. The focus of quality in the universities, colleges, primary and secondary schools are quite strong, but there is no requirement for such thing in the music schools.
The owners of music schools are municipalities. They have one music school or they share the responsibility with one or two neighbour municipalities. The municipality has the responsibility to run the school and for the finance and economics, to fulfil the â€�music school lawâ€?. The state pays approx. 15% the municipalities pay 60% and the pupils 25%. The national organisation, Norsk KulturskolerĂĄd, is responsible for the development of music schools and their quality management. Members of this organisation are municipalities (410 members â€" out of 434 municipalities).
In Norway there are no legal quality requirements. As a consequence there is no organisation to control the quality of music schools. It’s also missing a detailed law or regulations, or a compulsory curriculum. Therefore the organisation took the job to write the framework/curriculum for the schools, even if this will not have a binding for the schools. Neither the work with quality will have this. The organisation have also on this field, given themselves the work with creation of a branch specified quality development tool, based on the CAF.
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