6,435 students dropped out from high school last school year
3.4 percent of pupils dropped out from high school the previous school year. – “Quitting school is a serious choice,” says Minister of Education Jan…
High school
More people with an immigrant background will be assisted in completing high school
More apprenticeships and extra professional input for immigrant youth will have more of them completing high school. The government will allocate a total of NOK…
How to find an apprenticeship in Norway?
How to find an apprenticeship in Norway? Record numbers of youngsters are applying for vocational subjects, and most of them get an apprenticeship. The Directorate…
More students finish high school in Norway
More graduates from high school – the North is lagging Three out of four students who started in 2012 graduated from high school within five…
More students visit doctor due to absence rule
Strong increase in students visiting doctor due to absence rule in High Schools The number of doctor visits has increased by 15 per cent among…
Student seriously injured in avalanche
Student seriously injured in avalanche in Finnmark A person was seriously injured when an avalanche was triggered in Langfjorden in Alta municipality on Thursday. Two…
Record number of students complete Secondary School/High School (Videregående) education
The Directorate of Education reported that 73% of students who started upper secondary education in 2011 have completed it with pass grades during the past…
Students request cancellation of exam
Students request cancellation of exam after mess up with assignment texts The high school students who had exams in Political and Human Rights this week…
More satisfaction at vocational studies
Vocational students are happier at college than at high school. They can also handle the transition to the new level better than students in general,…
Small animals seriously mistreated in high school
Several small animals have been mistreated in a brutal way, and also killed by intruders who broke into Hvam High School. The school has an…
Nine out of ten of the applicants have been allocated a videregående school
90 percent of those who applied for a spot in the first year of videregående skole( similar to junior college or the sixth forms of…
192 applicants did not get into videregående skole in Oslo
Over 17,000 applicants have gotten into videregående skole(similar to junior college or sixth forms of comprehensive school, a kind of upper secondary education) in Oslo…