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Teachers’ strike spreads again
Another 3,000 teachers walked out of their classrooms in Norway this week, as a strike over pay and a lack of fully credentialed teachers...
Teachers strike set to expand again
Around 1,300 teachers were on strike in 17 cities and townships around Norway, just as the first full week of school was getting underway....
Strikes threaten first days of school
All three of Norway's large teachers' unions have voted to take some of their members out on strike when school starts later this month....
Thousands more head out on strike
More than 20,000 public sector employees, many of them teachers and nurses, are now on strike in Norway after municipal employers refused to take...
Assaulted teacher loses compensation claim
Norway's Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from an Oslo high school teacher who was assaulted by a student in his classroom....
Norway cancels written exams
Norway's Ministry of Education has decided to cancel all written exams at the junior high- and high school level. It remained unclear whether oral...
International school closed on Friday
The private and expensive Oslo International School in Bærum (OIS) chose to close its doors on Friday, the first in Norway to do so...
Armed, uniformed man arrested at school
Police in Trondheim arrested a young Norwegian man in an armed operation at a local high school on Wednesday. The man, who turned out...
Teenagers have trouble reading
Only half of Norwegian teenagers read books during their free time, and boys are especially struggling with reading at school. Girls are still better,...
New teaching plan hits digital divide
Even one of the Norwegian newspapers that's most critical of the country's conservative government had high marks for the new teaching plans and curriculum...
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