Collaboration with working life via educational programmes
OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University collaborates closely with the municipal sector and private businesses in the metropolitan region.
Read more about the university’s collaboration here (oslomet.no).
The Department of Art, Design and Drama has a long tradition of close collaboration with working life through the city’s and region’s many arenas within the fields of education, dissemination, drama, art, and design. The teaching that takes place in the various programmes of study will provide students with links to working life and relevant skills training for future professional practice. Collaboration with working life via the programmes of study at the department shall be experienced as rewarding and a mutual strength for all parties involved in the collaboration.
The department collaborates closely with partners and supervised professional training placement providers in Oslo and Akershus, but also with professionally relevant arenas in nearby counties, in other parts of the country and abroad.
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Our university collaborations
The department collaborates with supervised professional training placement providers and professionally relevant arenas in the programmes of study through various partnership agreements. Certain programmes of study offer training exchange programmes abroad.
University collaboration with schools and companies is practiced through multi-year collaboration agreements over six years, annual training agreements over the course of one year, as well as individual project agreements with practical training supervisors at various arenas.
Please note that the format of the collaboration and the number of students and actors involved in the collaboration may vary from year to year. These factors are determined by the academic areas of focus, student numbers and the resources available at the collaborative arena and university.
Below is an overview of the arenas the department regularly collaborates with.
NB: The page is currently work in progress
Art, design and drama dissemination
The fashion and textile industry
Makerspace and activity arenas
Therapeutic arenas
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Tba
Cultural schools and folk high schools
Primary and lower secondary schools
Upper secondary schools
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Role clarification during collaboration – expectations of students, the collaboration arena and OsloMet
Through collaboration between working life and programmes of study at the department, it is expected that the various actors involved contribute knowledge and skills from their field, as well as develop their professionalism and expertise. Below are general guidelines for expectations regarding the different roles in a collaboration across the programmes of study at the department. See Information about supervised professional training in the various programmes of study at the Department of Art, Design and Drama for information pertaining to individual programmes of study.
The student’s role
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Students will engage in collaboration in order to learn through a professional role. When students are at a supervised professional training placement or another collaborative arena, they are practicing to become a professional in the field and must act in accordance with the guidelines and regulations established through the agreed collaboration and at the collaborative arena as a workplace.
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Students will actively contribute in supervision for their own and fellow students’ learning.
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During supervised professional training, students must not conduct their training at a place where their own children attend, where their parents/spouse/partner work, or where they themselves are/have been employed or have been a pupil. Students are responsible for notifying the department if such situations are likely to occur. Exceptions apply to the programmes of study in which students conduct supervised professional training in their own workplace.
The role of supervised professional training placement providers and collaborative arenas
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Students are in training through the collaboration, both at the OsloMet campus and at the collaboration arena as an external campus. Students will be able to receive support and supervision from both the collaborative arena and the university, through a university collaboration.
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The content of the academic work and collaboration at the arena must be relevant to the programme of study and focus on the learning outcomes in the programme and course plan.
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Through supervised professional training, students must be included in the supervised professional training placement’s work environment through internal planning and collaboration meetings, break times and other collegial collaboration. If it is not appropriate for students to participate, students must be informed of the reason.
The role of the Department of Art, Design and Drama and the university
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OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University and the Department of Art, Design and Drama are primarily responsible for the quality of the content, supervision and any assessments of the students’ collaboration with working life during their studies.
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The department must ensure that all parties in a collaboration are taken into consideration through preparations and prior information, as well providing feedback or evaluation after the collaboration.
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Students and collaborators must be offered supervision and follow-up from the course coordinator or an academic supervisor from the department.
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Collaboration agreement
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Remuneration in relation to supervised professional training collaboration
Supervised professional training procedures at the Department of Art, Design and Drama are based on Circular F-04-05: New agreements for teaching practice supervisors (regjeringen.no) and the Teaching practice supervisor agreement for schools (regjeringen.no). Supervised professional training collaboration through the teacher education programmes LUPE and 1-year programme in educational theory and practice is remunerated. Supervised professional training collaboration through the other programmes of study is not remunerated.
Students receive no remuneration for supervised professional training collaboration at the department. This is due to the fact that they are in a supervised and assessed training situation and do not have an employment contract in relation to supervised professional training.
Supervised professional training placement providers that follow up students from the teacher education programmes LUPE and 1-year programme in educational theory and practice at the department receive remuneration according to agreed rates per student per course and period of training. Supervised professional training in teacher education is compulsory and has legally binding framework plans and guidelines specifying that partnerships must be remunerated. This is because supervised professional training placement providers play a key role in the supervision, assessment and quality assurance of student teachers’ skills training.
Supervised professional training placement providers that receive students from the other programmes of study at the department do not receive remuneration. The department is responsible for and conducts supervision and assessment of the students’ supervised professional training.
Remuneration via invoice
The supervised professional training placement provider invoices the Faculty of Technology, Art and Design at OsloMet when the period of supervised professional training has ended. The remuneration includes a fixed amount per course for training follow-up per student.
The supervised professional training placement provider is remunerated for X hours of supervision/assessment per week of supervised professional training (X hours per day of supervised professional training regarding point training) + 10 hours for communication with the department, meetings, any observation and supervision prior to supervised professional training. Practical training supervisors receive payment in addition to the regular salary from their employer. The supervised professional training placement provider covers the payment of holiday pay and employer’s contribution. The agreement with the department does not include a reduction or functional supplement to address vulnerability for employees and academic teams in practical and aesthetic subjects at schools. As compensation, the hourly rate per course is higher than those stipulated in the guidelines for the Teaching practice supervisor agreement for schools.
Remuneration via assignment agreement
The university primarily establishes collaborations with supervised professional training placement providers and not with individual employees. At supervised professional training placement providers where invoicing is not possible, the placement provider will need to enter into dialogue with the supervised professional training team at the Department of Art, Design and Drama. See more about assignment agreements here (ansatt.oslomet.no)
Rate per period of supervised professional training for the teacher education programmes LUPE and 1-year programme in educational theory and practice
Rate per week of supervised professional training (5 days) per student - primary and lower secondary school: NOK 1437.5
Rate per week of supervised professional training (5 days) per student – upper secondary school/cultural school/other dissemination arena: NOK 1375
The amount covers supervised professional training supervision, meeting attendance in accordance with the agreement, and administration at the supervised professional training placement provider. OsloMet pays the amount in full to the training placement provider. Schools are responsible for holiday pay and employer's contribution.
Rates are based on frameworks in the Teaching practice supervisor agreement for schools (.pdf) and Circular F-04-05: New agreements for teaching practice supervisors (regjeringen.no) and Appendix 3 Agreement on working conditions for teaching practice supervisors in 1-year programmes in educational theory and practice (PPU) and in secondary teacher education in music, dance and drama (.pdf)
Supplement for supervisor qualifications
Supervised professional training placement providers are paid a supplement if the practical training supervisor has formal supervisory qualifications that carry credits. The number of credits determines the scope of the supplement.
- NOK 1000 for 15-29 credits per practical training supervisor per period of supervised professional training.
- NOK 2000 for 30-59 credits per practical training supervisor per period of supervised professional training.
- NOK 2500 for 60-XX credits per practical training supervisor per period of supervised professional training..
Allocation key
The supervised professional training placement provider, through the manager/Rector, must develop an internal allocation key that takes into account any administrative adaptations, work conducted by the practical training supervisor/s, and supplements for supervisor qualifications.
Invoice due date
Based on the submitted invoice documentation, the supervised professional training placement provider sends a payment request to the Faculty of Technology, Art and Design after each semester: by 15 November in the autumn semester and 15 May in the spring semester. Where periods of supervised professional training span two semesters, the payment request should be submitted in the last semester.