The Competency Plan 2015 was conducted by the Directorate of Health, but every municipality and all regional health authorities (four, in totla) produce health personnel statistics and short- and long- term personnel plans, as part of their strategic planning activity.
The responsibility for Higher Secondary School is at the county level. Health and social science is a direction many students choose. The county authorities provide sufficient classes according to the number of applicant. The same is more or less the case for vocational education, which is established as 0.5 to 2 years practical training, according to a separate legislation.
According to the legislation on higher education, the institutions for most educational programmes are autonomous to select what kind of education they provide. The public funding is based on number of candidates fulfilling the examination in the previous year. For some professional educations such as medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and psychology and a number of technical education, (engineers, architects) and others, there is a maximum capacity set by national authorities (Ministry of Education and Research). Nevertheless, governmental grants are given to students taking such education abroad.
The Ministry of Education and Research monitors very closely the number of students and candidates in a national register, and data is fed into Statistics Norway every year.
The Directorate of Health gives advice through the Ministry of Health and Care Services into the next year´s budget of the Ministry of Education and Research based on current imbalance in the health personnel marked.
The Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation provide every year statistics (KOSTRA) based on the municipalities annual report on a multitude of data, including health and social care personnel.
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