https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Norway in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Armed police responded after a school student in the town of Aksim in Østfold county threatened to carry out a shooting. https://www.thelocal.no/20191011/armed-norwegian-police-respond-to-school-shooting-threat Fri, 11 Oct 2019 19:47:30 +0200 armed-norwegian-police-respond-to-school-shooting-threat A 17-year-old girl was stabbed by a fellow student at the Christian high school in Bygland Municipality in the Setesdal valley on Monday morning. https://www.thelocal.no/20161212/norwegian-teen-stabbed-at-christian-boarding-school Mon, 12 Dec 2016 11:31:27 +0100 norwegian-teen-stabbed-at-christian-boarding-school A second grade student at the Gakori school in Alta was subjected to extreme bullying on Tuesday when he was stripped from the waist down, hung up by the feet and then had rocks thrown at him. https://www.thelocal.no/20161026/7-year-old-norwegian-boy-stripped-hung-upside-down-and-pelted-with-rocks Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:29:01 +0200 7-year-old-norwegian-boy-stripped-hung-upside-down-and-pelted-with-rocks A foundation that applied to establish a Muslim primary school in the Oslo district of Grønland was rejected by the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training (Utdanningsdirektoratet), Kommunal Rapport reported. https://www.thelocal.no/20160412/norway-officials-reject-muslim-school-in-oslo Tue, 12 Apr 2016 16:48:37 +0200 norway-officials-reject-muslim-school-in-oslo A school in Norway has replaced chairs with large rubber exercise balls — and the pupils love it. https://www.thelocal.no/20160321/norway-school-swaps-chairs-for-giant-rubber-balls Mon, 21 Mar 2016 14:49:37 +0100 norway-school-swaps-chairs-for-giant-rubber-balls A new report comparing education in OECD nations shows that Norway is a leading spender on education but warns that the Nordic nation may face a teacher shortage. https://www.thelocal.no/20151125/norway-among-biggest-spenders-on-education-oecd Wed, 25 Nov 2015 12:45:24 +0100 norway-among-biggest-spenders-on-education-oecd The Oslo primary school Grünerløkka was closed on Monday for the second time in recent weeks as police decide to take online threats seriously. https://www.thelocal.no/20151123/threats-close-oslo-school-for-second-time-in-10-days Mon, 23 Nov 2015 12:32:49 +0100 threats-close-oslo-school-for-second-time-in-10-days All schools in Oslo are will soon have 'terror alarms' to warn pupils and teachers in the event of a serious terrorist attack or school shooting, the city's Education Department has announced. https://www.thelocal.no/20150820/oslo-schools-introduce-terror-alarms Fri, 21 Aug 2015 01:25:28 +0200 oslo-schools-introduce-terror-alarms Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg has pledged not to send her two teenage children to private schools, a day after Norway's Crown Prince and Princess revealed that their two children would be attending fee-paying schools in Oslo. https://www.thelocal.no/20140618/no-private-school-for-my-kids-says-norway-pm Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:17:34 +0200 no-private-school-for-my-kids-says-norway-pm A Norwegian woman has been drugged and raped after watching a football match at Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Denmark's Ekstra Bladet tabloid reported on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.no/20140507/norway-woman-raped-in-spain Wed, 07 May 2014 12:14:00 +0200 norway-woman-raped-in-spain Plans to launch Oslo's first Muslim-only primary school have been given the go-ahead by Norway's education ministry in the face of cross-party criticism. https://www.thelocal.no/20140408/oslo-to-get-first-muslim-primary-school-2 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 16:57:00 +0200 oslo-to-get-first-muslim-primary-school-2 A secondary school in Norway is using a zombie computer game rated 'mature' for its "blood and gore" and "extreme violence" to teach pupils about ethics. https://www.thelocal.no/20140120/norway-school-uses Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:06:00 +0100 norway-school-uses Schoolchildren with poor grades are most likely to be bullied at all levels of the school system, a new Norwegian survey has shown. https://www.thelocal.no/20140103/kids-with-poor-grades-more-likely-to-be-bullied Fri, 03 Jan 2014 17:10:06 +0100 kids-with-poor-grades-more-likely-to-be-bullied A hard-up school principal has been convicted of fraud after he transferred 123,107 kroner ($20,069) of PTA money into his own account. https://www.thelocal.no/20140102/hard-up-headmaster-stole-thousands-from-pta Thu, 02 Jan 2014 14:08:59 +0100 hard-up-headmaster-stole-thousands-from-pta A 16-year-old girl is recovering in hospital from a life-threatening infection after she was forced to eat a raw animal heart during an initiation ceremony for a high school sorority in south-eastern Norway. https://www.thelocal.no/20120917/teen-girl-seriously-ill-after-sorority-initiation Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:21:00 +0200 teen-girl-seriously-ill-after-sorority-initiation A teacher from Halden in south-eastern Norway has admitted to having abused her position to convince a 16-year-old pupil to have sex with her. https://www.thelocal.no/20120828/teacher-admits-having-sex-with-boy Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:16:00 +0200 teacher-admits-having-sex-with-boy Girls at a secondary school in south-eastern Norway are selling sex to boys during school hours, shocked parents learned in a letter sent to them by the school principal. https://www.thelocal.no/20120511/high-school-girls-selling-sex-to-boys-principal Fri, 11 May 2012 13:13:14 +0200 high-school-girls-selling-sex-to-boys-principal Pupils at a school in southern Norway have gone on strike in protest against a teacher who allegedly turned up drunk in the classroom, and their school’s failure to take the problem seriously. https://www.thelocal.no/20120102/high-school-pupils-on-strike-over-drunk-teacher Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:01:45 +0100 high-school-pupils-on-strike-over-drunk-teacher Norwegian teachers are 10 percent “less intelligent” than they were 10 years ago according to a study by professors at the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen, or NHH. https://www.thelocal.no/20111013/norwegian-teachers-less-brainy-than-before Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:49:29 +0200 norwegian-teachers-less-brainy-than-before