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Peer reviewedHaywood, Roy – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1986
The history and demise of the following two educational agencies are discussed: the Schools Council for Curriculum and Examinations of England and Wales and the National Council for Innovation in Education of Norway. (RM)
Descriptors: Centralization, Comparative Education, Curriculum, Decentralization
Peer reviewedRust, Val D. – Comparative Education, 1990
Examines the social corporatism model of policy formation as it has contributed to various cycles of Norwegian educational reform since the mid-1800s. Concludes that, although corporatism is a tool of social control, it also provides a feasible mechanism for revolutionary policy formation. Contains 39 references. (SV)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Change, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
Brickman, William W. – Western European Education, 1986
An historical survey of the Norwegian educational system is provided. Education in Norway is universal, pluralistic, and at government expense through the upper secondary school. Higher education has an open-door policy, and the tuition fees are very modest. (RM)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Background, Cultural Traits
Download full textLindegren, Alina M. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1934
The purpose of this bulletin is to present to collegiate registrars, committees of admission, and State departments of public instruction such data about the institutions of higher education in Norway as will enable those officials and offices to form fairly accurate judgments of how higher training in Norway compares with that in the United…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Credentials, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries
Bie, Karen Nossum – 1981
The establishment and development of the University of Tromso in Northern Norway are discussed. This case study is one of 10 undertaken as part of a project conducted by the Institute of Education of the European Cultural Foundation to compare higher education reforms that were introduced during the 1960s or early 1970s in various European…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Case Studies, College Role, Comparative Education
Harney, Klaus, Ed.; Heikkinen, Anja, Ed.; Rahn, Sylvia, Ed.; Schemmann, Michael, Ed. – 2002
These 17 articles on different subjects of the broader theme "lifelong learning" represent the latest results of the discussions of the Vocational Education and Culture Research Network. An introduction (Klaus Harney et al.) provides summaries of the contents. The articles are "The Global and International Discourse of Lifelong…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education
