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School ordered to refund students’ fees

A private communications school that overcharged tuition and landed in various other trouble was ordered on Wednesday to refund nearly NOK 30 million to former...

Fears of violence mar back-to-school

It's back-to-school week in Norway, but not all students are returning to festive opening ceremonies at their local schools. Fears of violence and assaults...

Westerdals relieved after criminal probe was dropped

Officials at the Oslo-based Westerdals Schools of Communications could take off on summer holidays with a sense of relief, after the Norwegian police dropped a criminal...

Westerdals refunds the state

The private school Westerdals has settled a dispute with the state by agreeing to repay NOK 42 million in public funding that it should...

Government lures teachers to Northern Norway

An acute lack of teachers in Norway's three northernmost counties of Finnmark, Troms and Nordland has prompted the government to offer incentives in the form...

Troubled Westerdals set for takeover

Westerdals, the private communications school in Oslo whose owners landed in trouble after claiming too much public funding and over-charging students, has been bought...

Police probe string of false bomb threats

Several schools around Norway all received bomb threats from a man speaking English on Wednesday. The schools were all evacuated and no bombs were...

Schools produce better test scores

Norwegian teenagers are performing much better on national and international tests. A batch of new test results are among the best ever, although many Norwegian...

Westerdals settles with 750 former students

Around two-thirds of the former students at troubled private Oslo high school Westerdals who were overcharged tuition fees have accepted the school's compensation offer...

Another ‘russ’ critically injured

From the "worst 'russ' season ever" to the "one of the worst things that can happen:" A 19-year-old partying high school student known as a...
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