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All you need to know about education in Norway

A selection of websites from our database is provided below concerning the following topics:

• Springe zu: Overviews of the education system in Norway
• Springe zu: Ministries responsible for education and science in Norway
• Springe zu: Educational reports on and education statistics for Norway

 You will find further websites and literature on Norway here:

1. Websites on Norway
2. Literature on Norway  (German Education Research Portal)

Overviews of the education system in Norway

Norway
Eurydice is the "Network on education systems and policies in Europe". Amongst others, it provides very comprehensive country profiles on on education systems in Europe (formerly know as "Eurypedia"). All areas of education are covered from early childhood to adult education, as well as overarching issues. Each country participating in [...]

Norway
News, general information and documents relating to education and research are provided by the Norwegian Government and its ministries.

Egypt; Ethiopia; Algeria; Angola; Argentina; Australia; Bahamas; Bahrain; Bangladesh; Barbados; Belarus; Belgium [...]
The International Bureau of Education der UNESCO (IBE) provides country dossiers focussed on education. They provide information on statistics (from the World Data on Education – WDE), national education reports, documents [...]

Europe; Austria; Belgium; Cyprus, Republic of; Czechia; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary [...]
The European Agency for Development in Special Needs Education provides national overviews of special needs education in numerous European countries. The information includes the following topics: legal system, financing, [...]

international; Australia; Austria; Belgium; China, People's Republic of; Chile; Czechia; Germany; Hungary; Ireland [...]
The review aims to bridge the gap between learning and jobs, by exploring how to make initial vocational education and training for young people respond better to labour market requirements. It therefore looks at initial VET [...]

Ministries responsible for education and science in Norway

Norway
The English homepage of the Norwegian Education Ministry provides comprehensive information about its organisational structure, education policy, various data and full texts about the education system, as well as access to full-texts on education and research in Norway.

Norway
Norway Opening Universities (NOU) is a national political initiative for opening Norwegian universities and colleges the access to higher education, opening institutions of higher education to a better understanding of the needs of society and working life and opening universities and colleges to more flexible modes of teaching and [...]

Denmark; Sweden; Finland; Norway; Iceland; Greenland; Faroe Islands; Northern Europe
Nordic inter-governmental co-operation on research and education is headed up by the education and research ministers, who make up the MR-U. The role of the Nordic Council of Ministers for Education and Research is to help ensure that the Nordic Region retains [...]

Educational reports on and education statistics for Norway

Belgium; Bulgaria; Cyprus, Republic of; Czechia; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Germany; Switzerland; Greece [...]
Eurydice (formerly Eurypedia and Eurybase) is a network of national units based in all countries of the Erasmus+ programme. [Its] task is to explain how education systems are organised in Europe and how they [...]

Norway
Eurydice is the "Network on education systems and policies in Europe". Amongst others, it provides very comprehensive country profiles on on education systems in Europe (formerly know as "Eurypedia"). All areas of education are covered from early childhood to adult education, as well as overarching issues. Each country participating in [...]

Norway
Refernet is a Network of European experts in vocational education and Training which publishes annual reports for EU member countries, Iceland and Norway. Topics: participation and Organisation, labour market, economic Background.

Norway
The website offers numerous statistical data on all areas of education as well as links to further statistical resources.

Norway; Europe
The history of the Institute goes back to the late 1950s as a group within the Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities, NAVF. Through over twenty-five years of activities, the Institute has gained considerable expertise in issues related to research and higher education nationally and internationally. The [...]

Egypt; Ethiopia; Algeria; Angola; Argentina; Australia; Bahamas; Bahrain; Bangladesh; Barbados; Belarus; Belgium [...]
The International Bureau of Education der UNESCO (IBE) provides country dossiers focussed on education. They provide information on statistics (from the World Data on Education – WDE), national education reports, documents [...]

Norway
This is the Norwegian website about the OECD/PISA programme 2000, 2003 ( Programme for International Student Assessment). It offers general information about the aims of the survey, introduces the Norwegian co-ordinators, national reports, a summary of Norwegian results as well as English publications for download analysing PISA and the [...]

Norway
The ODIN Internet portal leads to information about Norway and the Norwegian society (in English, German...). The menu item "Norway as country" gives access to a comprehensive collection of articles, backgroundinformation and links. Further links e.g. to the education ministry, educational and research institutes and particular [...]

Norway
Information gateway of the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Berlin. Information on education can be obtained in the following fields: education and research, scholarship and student exchange, studying in Norway, learn Norwegian and hands-on news. Comprehensive list of links.

Norway
NSD, established in 1971, is a national multidisciplinary research service facility under the Research Council of Norway with a strategic responsibility for maintaining data resources and data access for Norwegian research. NSD has established e.g. the Norwegian Research Database (NFI) and a national database for statistics on higher [...]

international; Afghanistan; Albania; Algeria; Andorra; Angola; Antigua and Barbuda; Argentina; Armenia; Australia [...]
This page provides a country list with fact sheets on the Human Development Index (HDI). The index focuses on three measurable dimensions of human development: health, education and standard of living. The fact sheets are [...]

Norway
Statistics on early childhood education and care in Norway, provided by the National Statistical Institute of Norway.