Government Commission for Higher Education

The Government Commission for Higher Education (often known as the Stjernø Commission) was a commission appointed by the Government of Norway in 2006 to present recommendations on the development of research and higher education in Norway in a 20-year perspective. The Commission presented its report, Norwegian Official Report 2008:3, in 2008. The report proposed, inter alia, to reduce the number of universities and colleges in Norway to eight or ten.