Schooling in the Nordic countries

• The Nordic countries – Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Sweden and Norway – have entered into a mutual agreement that young people with permanent residence in another Nordic country enjoy the same rights to upper secondary education and training as citizens of this country.
• If you have completed parts of your upper secondary education/training in another Nordic country, in principle your studies will be approved on the same terms as for pupils who move from one school to another within Norway. This applies to both general studies and vocational education programmes at the upper secondary level.
• Info Norden is the information service of the Nordic Council of Ministers designed for Nordic citizens who move from one Nordic country to another. You can find information about moving, studying and working in the Nordic countries on norden.org/info.

Schooling in France

3-year upper secondary education at a French lycée

• Norwegian pupils may apply for admission to a 3-year upper secondary course of study at a French lycée in Bayeux, Lyon or Rouen. This is an opportunity for those who wish to go to school abroad with the aim of achieving a French baccalauréat.
• You can apply for admission while you are in the 10th grade or Vg1 in Norway. When you start in France, you should be over 16 but not older than 17 by the end of that calendar year. You are not required to have studied French previously, but this is an advantage. 
• You can get more information on the websites utdanningiverden.no.

Vg1 specialization in general studies in France

• Through the Institut français Norwegian pupils who are in the 10th grade and who have had French in the lower secondary school can apply for a 1-year course at Fontenay-le-Comte and Angers. 
• This year can be approved as the basis for admission to Vg2 for the education programme for specialization in general studies in Norway. It is also possible to continue at the French school and take the Baccalauréat. 
• See utdanningiverden.no and france.no.
  

The cookery trade in France

• Institut français also offers places at a three-year course in the education programme for Restaurant and food processing trades in France.
• To be admitted you must at the application deadline be a pupil at Vg1 in the education programme for Restaurant and food processing trades. 
• There is no requirement regarding previous knowledge of the French language. 
• The education is a three-year course leading to the Baccalauréat Professionnel Cuisine (Bac pro, cuisine). 
• This combination (one year in Norway, three years in France), has been assessed to be equal to a Norwegian trade certificate in cookery. A completed and passed four-year education also gives you general university admissions certification. 
• You can get more information on the websites utdanningiverden.no and france.no.
  

Aquaculture in France

• Institut français offers places at Lycée Professionnel Olivier Guichard in Guérande. 
• To be admitted, you must at the application deadline be a pupil at Vg1 Agriculture, fishing and forestry. 
• There is no requirement regarding previous knowledge of the French language. 
• The education is a three-year course leading to the Baccalauréat Professionnel Aquaculture (Bac pro, aquaculture). 
• This combination (one year in Norway, three years in France) has been assessed as equal to a Norwegian trade certificate in aquaculture. A completed and passed four-year education also gives you university admissions certification.  
• You can get more information on the websites utdanningiverden.no and france.no.

United World Colleges (UWC)

• UWC is a union of international schools the world over. 
• The aim is to bring pupils with dissimilar backgrounds together in order to get to know one another’s culture, religion and language. 
• The teaching at UWC builds on Vg1 in education programmes in general studies. 
• In the course of two years, the pupils progress to the International Baccalaureate – IB examination, which provides general university admission certification and qualifies for admission to colleges and universities all over the world. 
• You must turn 17 years of age during the year in which you are applying. Pupils who are younger than 17 years of age but are attending the first year of upper secondary education (Vg1) or similar can also apply.
• You must be a pupil in the first year of upper secondary education (Vg1) in one of the five education programmes for universities admission certification in Norway. This also applies to you who are a pupil attending the International Baccalaureate Programme in Norway, or are a pupil at or have completed the last year of the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme at a Norwegian school, or are a pupil at a Montessori School, Steiner School or similar.
• You can find more information on utdanningiverden.no and www.uwc.no.

UWC Schools  

Each year a total of 40 Norwegian students are sent to UWC schools. Norway has 10 places available at UWC Red Cross Nordic in Norway. The number of Norwegian students at the other schools listed below varies from year to year.