University reforms to ensure relevance to working life The Norwegian government has put proposals before parliament to increase the relevance of higher education to ‘working life’ to ensure that graduates are better prepared for employment. In a White Paper (in Norwegian) put before parliament last month, the government said it would continue to invest in flexible and more decentralised education and will ask the Government Loan Board to make the regulations more adapted to lifelong learning challenges and instruct the Directorate for Higher Education to tune financial support regulations more to the needs of working life. In a second White Paper on the governance of public universities put before parliament last month, the government proposed that the regulations be eased so that more universities can provide professional degrees on psychology, law, theology.