
	{"id":8212,"date":"2022-01-08T14:36:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T19:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/?page_id=8212"},"modified":"2026-01-08T15:38:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:38:32","slug":"kaja-schiotz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/award-programs\/hall-of-acclaim\/inductees\/2021-inductees\/kaja-schiotz\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaja Schiotz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10090 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Hall-of-Acclaim_-Kaja-Schiotz-2021-Class-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Hall-of-Acclaim_-Kaja-Schiotz-2021-Class-150x150@2x.png 300w, https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Hall-of-Acclaim_-Kaja-Schiotz-2021-Class-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Hall-of-Acclaim_-Kaja-Schiotz-2021-Class.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National expert with 44 years of experience in the field of admission, recognition and policy development&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Significant contributions to working groups, expert groups and policy processes for the European Education area, both before, during and after the development and implementation of the Lisbon Convention&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Invested in the professional development of experts in the field of admission and recognition through the organization of- and presenting at- countless conferences and seminars through EAIE, NUAS, NAFSA, TAICEP and national arenas in Norway.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p><b>EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Senior Adviser for International Relations \u2013 The University of Oslo, Faculty of Humanities, 2000-2021 (retired)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Head of Norwegian Enic-Naric (NAIC), 1993-1999<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deputy Head of International Relations, University of Oslo, 1991-1992<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Senior executive officer, International Relations, University of Oslo, 1976-1991<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Association for International Credential Evaluation Professionals (TAICEP)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NAFSA: Association of International Educators. (NAFSA)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Nordic Association of University Administrators (NUAS)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">European Association for International Education. (EAIE)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>ELECTED POSITIONS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OSLO:&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Union representative at the Faculty of Humanities, 2000 \u2013 2021<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Employee representative of the Employment board for administrative positions, 2001-2020<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Member of the Faculty Board, 2001-2010<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Member of the Employment board for academic positions 2001-2010<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>NORWEGIAN GROUPS AND REPRESENTATIVE POSITIONS:&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Member of Ministry of Education expert group tasked with developing and improving the national recognition database (NAG\/GAUS), January 2008 \u2013 January 2009<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Member of Ministry of Education expert group (the Brautaset-group) tasked with developing a national policy of admission and recognition of international education in Norway, March 2006 \u2013 January 2007&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Member of the project group who developed the national recognition database (NAG), 2001-2002<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Head of SIS (National board for International Affairs), 1997 (founded)\u20131999<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Member of NSIS (National Cooperation Board for International Affairs), 1983 (founded) \u2013 1995 (discontinued)&nbsp; &nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Member of \u00abthe Nyborg-group\u00bb, appointed by the Ministry of Church and Education, developing a policy for financing studies abroad for Norwegian students abroad (basis for White Paper 19, 1996-97)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Universities\u2019 representative in the Ministry of Church and Education\u2019s expert group for evaluating international teacher educations<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Member of reference group for \u00abthe Flatin-group\u00bb \u00abBorderless Learning\u00bb &#8211; NOU white paper 1989:13<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>INTERNATIONAL GROUPS AND REPRESENTATIVE POSITIONS:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Nordic Association of University Administrators (NUAS) under the Nordic Council of Ministers:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Norwegian representative to the NUAS board \u201cInternational Admission and Recognition of Qualifications\u201d, 2001 \u2013 2020<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Norwegian representative in the reference group for a comparative evaluation of the Lisbon Convention vs. the Nordic Sigtuna-agreement, 1999<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Representative\/project leader from UiO in the 3-year EU Erasmus+ KA2 capacity building project Meric-Net, 2016-2019&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Norwegian representative in the NARIC-network, under the European Commission, DG XXII, 1993 &#8211; 99&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vice President of the Committee for the Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education in the European Region (European Treaty Series &#8211; No. 165, Lisbon Convention) by the Council of Europe\/UNESCO (ENIC-network), 1999-2001<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Representative appointed to two expert groups, Council of Europe\/UNESCO \u2013&nbsp;<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Explanatory Memorandum to the subsidiary text to the convention; \u201cRecommendation on the use of qualifications framework in the Recognitions of foreign qualifications\u201d, 1998\/1999&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Member of the ACE board (Admission and Credential Evaluation), European Association of International Education (EAIE), 1996 &#8211; 1999&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>EDUCATION:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cand. mag. (5-year degree) \u2013 double major in French and Spanish &#8211; University of Oslo (1976)<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Studies abroad in France\/Universit\u00e9 de Strasbourg (1971) and Spain\/Universidad Complutense, Madrid (1974)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">US High School\/St Mary\u2019s in the Mountains (now White Mountains School), New Hampshire \u2013 1968\/69<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>PHOTOS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8366 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/123-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/123-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/123-232x150.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/123.jpg 312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Kaja Schi\u00f8tz on the far right in Fall 1977, pregnant with her first son, working in the Office for Foreign Students. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/124-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"353\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/124-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/124-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/124.jpg 384w, https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/124-113x150@2x.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Kaja Schi\u00f8tz speaking out on an unaccredited US institution in Norway in the University of Oslo student newspaper <i>Universitas<\/i> (Jan. 23, 2008) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8364\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/125-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/125-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/125-186x150.jpg 186w, https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/125-168x137.jpg 168w, https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/125.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/125-186x150@2x.jpg 372w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Consortium meeting in the Erasmus+ KA2 capacity building project <i>MERIC-net<\/i> (Rome 2017), with partners from Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Lebanon, Italy, France and Norway.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meric-net.eu\/en\/index.aspx\">http:\/\/www.meric-net.eu\/en\/index.aspx<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8363\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/126-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"387\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/126-100x150@2x.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/126-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/126.jpg 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Kaja Schi\u00f8tz indulging in her passion for travel, visiting the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, 2013.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>In all, Kaja has visited well over 100 countries, including Bhutan, Syria (before the civil war), Iran, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, Bolivia and Ecuador w\/Galapagos Islands. Kaja has visited both the beginning and the end of the Pan-American Highway, from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Ushuaia, Argentina.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8362\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/127-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"536\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/127-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/127-225x150.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/127.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/127-225x150@2x.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Visiting the Scottish highlands after the 2015 EAIE Glasgow Conference.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8368\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/128-2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/128-2-150x150@2x.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/128-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/128-2-rotated.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Fishing in the Lofoten Islands, Norway, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National expert with 44 years of experience in the field of admission, recognition and policy development&nbsp; Significant contributions to working groups, expert groups and policy processes for the European Education area, both before, during and after the development and implementation of the Lisbon Convention&nbsp; Invested in the professional development of experts in the field of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"parent":8205,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pmpro_default_level":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-8212","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"pmpro-has-access"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8212"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12697,"href":"https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8212\/revisions\/12697"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taicep.org\/taiceporgwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}