Noncommercial file sharing should be legal in Norway, according to the Norwegian Minister of Education. B rd Vegar Solhjell wrote in a blog post last week that file sharing is not only a great way to ...

NESODDTANGEN, Norway — In a sun-drenched classroom a few miles south of Oslo, Jean-Baptiste Huynh stood in front of a class of rapt first-graders who watched as he played a video game. A teacher and ...

DIGGING NEW WELLS: Norway's economy is struggling, largely due to the low prices of oil and gas; a quarter of the Scandinavian country's GDP comes from fossil fuels. In the face of downturn and ...

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In recent years, anyone who’s been reading or talking about international comparisons in education practices and policies has some familiarity with Finland’s education story by now. I know at least ...

OSLO—There’s a saying in famously egalitarian Norway that Curt Rice, the American-born incoming president of the country’s third-biggest university, likes to rattle off: “We’re all sitting in the same ...

A fight has erupted in Norway after the country’s higher education regulator agreed to accredit courses in astrology, meaning students will be able to use government loans to look for meaning in the ...