Progress Party (FrP) proposed measures for a competetive education in Norway. They think improvement of the teachers’ status and the introduction of grading system from the fifth grade are essential.

The party’s education policy spokesperson, Mette Hanekam Haug, presented their ten steps to get a good education system in Norway. She said that the school will be the most important election issue for the Progress Party before the municipal elections in the next fall.

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Last updated: 08/06/2009// Norway participates in all of the Community’s programmes in the field of education, training and youth. A new generation of programmes in this field started in 2007and will run for a seven- year period. Norway articipats actively in all three of these programmes: Comenius, Leonardo da Vinci, Erasmus and Grundtvig Norway takes part in what is called horisontal activities as well. These include peer learning activities and progress reports. Students fram primary education to universities take activeky part in the exchange programme.

Norwegian participation in these programmes, which is regulated by Protocol 31 of the EEA Agreement, began in 1995, when the first generation of the programmes came into being. . Participation in the programmes, especially Comenius and Leonardo has been a success for Norway. TThe contacts and networks established as result of common activities in the programmes are important

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