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Ministry of Education and Research (Norway)
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Royal Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research is a Norwegian government ministry responsible for education, research and kindergartens. The ministry was established in 1814, and is since 16 October 2013 led by Torbjørn Røe Isaksen, the department reports to the legislature. Traditionally this ministry was responsible for church affairs, but this function was transferred to the Ministry of Culture. Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training, or Utdanningsdirektoratetet Responsible for the development of primary and secondary education, approves the primary and secondary school curriculum. Centre for ICT in education Foreldreutvalget for grunnskolen Cooperation between parents and school authorities, norway Opening Universities, or Norgesuniversitetet Think tank for lifelong learning and e-learning in higher education and provides funding to distance learning initiantives. Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Higher Education, or Senter for internasjonalisering av høyere utdanning Promotes international cooperation in higher education, Norwegian Institute for Adult Learning, or VOX-læring for arbeidslivet Promotes adult learning within reading, writing, arithmetic and ICT. Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, or Norsk utenrikspolitisk institutt Foreign policy research, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, or Meteorologisk institutt Performs weather observations and forecasts. Norwegian Social Research, or Norsk institutt for forskning om oppvekst, Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund, or Statens lånekasse for utdanning Grands loans and scholarships to students. Norwegian Universities and Colleges Admission Service, or Samordna opptak Coordinates admission to most undergraduate courses at universities and colleges. Statens fagskole for gartnere og blomsterdekoratører Educates gardeners and flower decorators at secondary school level, Svalbard University Centre, or Universitetssenteret på Svalbard Research on Svalbard. Uninett Operates the university/college/research internet communication network and the norid domain register, simula Research Laboratory Official web site
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Erna Solberg
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Erna Solberg is a Norwegian politician who has been Prime Minister of Norway since October 2013 and Leader of the Conservative Party since May 2004. Solberg has served as a member of the Storting since 1989 and served as Minister of Local Government, in her term as minister, she oversaw the tightening of immigration policy and the preparation of a proposed reform of the administrative divisions of Norway. After the 2005 election, she chaired the Conservative Party parliamentary group until 2013, Solberg has emphasized the social and ideological basis of the Conservative policies, although the party also has become visibly more pragmatic. After winning the September 2013 election, she became the second female Prime Minister of Norway, solbergs Cabinet, often referred to informally as the Blue-Blue Cabinet, is a two-party minority government consisting of the Conservative Party and Progress Party. The cabinet has established a formalized co-operation with the non-socialist Liberal Party, Solberg was born in Bergen in western Norway and grew up in the affluent Kalfaret neighbourhood. Her father, Asbjørn Solberg, worked as a consultant in the Bergen Sporvei, Solberg has two sisters, one older than her and one younger. Solberg had some struggles at school and at the age 16 was diagnosed as suffering from dyslexia and she was, nevertheless, an active and talkative contributor in the classroom. In 1986, she graduated with her cand. mag, degree in sociology, political science, statistics and economics from the University of Bergen. In her final year, she led the Students League of the Conservative Party in Bergen. Since 1996 she has married to Sindre Finnes, a businessman and former Conservative Party politician. The family has lived in both Bergen and Oslo, Solberg was a deputy member of Bergen city council in the periods 1979–1983 and 1987–1989, the last period on the executive committee. She chaired local and municipal chapters of the Young Conservatives and the Conservative Party and she was first elected to the Storting from Hordaland in 1989 and has been re-elected on five occasions. She was also the leader of the national Conservative Womens Association, from 2001 to 2005 Solberg served as the Minister of Local Government and Regional Development under Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik. Her alleged tough policies in this department, including a firm stance on asylum policy, in fact, numbers show that the Bondevik government, of 2001–2005, actually let in thousands more asylum seekers than the subsequent centre-left Red-Green government, of 2005–2009. As Minister, Solberg instructed the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration to expel Mulla Krekar, later, terrorism charges were filed against Krekar for a death threat he uttered in 2010 against Erna Solberg. She served as deputy leader of the Conservative Party from 2002 to 2004 and, in 2004, Solberg became the presumptive head of government after winning the general election on 9 September 2013 and was appointed Prime Minister on 16 October 2013. Solberg is Norways second female Prime Minister after Gro Harlem Brundtland, later on, the four took a picture which appeared on the Government. no website on 14 March the same year. In April of the year she criticized European Court over data retention which Telenor Group argued can be used without court proceedings
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Liv Signe Navarsete
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Liv Signe Hundere Navarsete was the Norwegian Minister of Local Government and Regional Development from 2009 to 2013 and has been leader of the Center Party since 2008. She first took office in 2005, serving in Stoltenbergs Second Cabinet, on 11 February she announced that she would retire as the leader of the party in April 2014. She was succeeded by Trygve Slagsvold Vedum and she was also political advisor to the Minister of Health and Social Affairs from 1999 to 2000. Navarsete was appointed as leader of the Center Party in September 2008, liv Signe Navarsete has gotten several headlines during her years of office due to her temper. The first time was in April 2011 when she yelled at a woman after being accused of betraying the districts of Norway. In September 2012 she yelled at the leader of her own youth organization, Sandra Borch, allegedly because Borch had expressed her support for Ola Borten Moe
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Storting
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The Storting is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. The unicameral parliament has 169 members, and is elected every four years based on party-list proportional representation in nineteen plural member constituencies, a member of the Storting is known in Norwegian as a Stortingsrepresentant, literally Storting representative. The assembly is led by a president and, since 2009 five vice presidents — the presidium, the members are allocated to twelve standing committees, as well as four procedural committees. Three ombudsmen are directly subordinate to parliament, the Parliamentary Intelligence Oversight Committee, in 2009, qualified unicameralism was replaced by unicameralism, through the dissolution of the two chambers, the Lagting and the Odelsting. Since 2013 Olemic Thommessen has been president, the alltings were where legal and political matters were discussed. As oral laws became codified and Norway unified as an entity in the 10th century. The Parliament of Norway Building opened in 1866, on 27 June 1940 the presidium signed an appeal to King Haakon, about his abdication. In September 1940 the representatives were summoned to Oslo, and voted in favour of the results of the negotiations between the presidium and the authorities of the German invaders, however, directives from Adolf Hitler resulted in the obstruction of the agreement of cooperation between parliament and occupation force. Although the Storting has always been unicameral, until 2009 it would divide itself into two departments in legislative matters. After elections, the Storting would elect a quarter of its membership to form the Lagting a sort of upper house, the division was also used on very rare occasions in cases of impeachment. The original idea in 1814 was probably to have the Lagting act as an upper house. Bills were submitted by the Government to the Odelsting or by a member of the Odelsting, a standing committee, with members from both the Odelsting and Lagting, would then consider the bill, and in some cases hearings were held. If passed by the Odelsting, the bill would be sent to the Lagting for review or revision, most bills were passed unamended by the Lagting and then sent directly to the king for royal assent. If the Lagting amended the Odelstings decision, the bill would be sent back to the Odelsting, if the Odelsting approved the Lagtings amendments, the bill would be signed into law by the King. If it did not, then the bill would return to the Lagting, if the Lagting still proposed amendments, the bill would be submitted a plenary session of the Storting. In order to be passed, the bill should have then had the approval of a majority of the plenary session. In all other cases a majority would suffice. Three days had to pass between each time a department voted on a bill, in all other cases, such as taxes and appropriations, the Storting would meet in plenary sessions
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Akershus
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Akershus is a county in Norway, bordering Hedmark, Oppland, Buskerud, Oslo, and Østfold, it also has a short border with Sweden. Akershus, with more than half a million inhabitants, is the second-largest county by population after Oslo, the county is named after Akershus Fortress. The county administration is in Oslo, which is not part of the county per se and this resulted after the transfer of the great municipality of Aker from Akershus County to Oslo in 1948. Embracing numerous suburbs of Oslo, notably Bærum, Akershus is one of the most densely populated areas in the country, the main national railway lines into Oslo run through Akershus with many junctions and stations such as Asker, Sandvika, Ski, and Lillestrøm. Akershus includes some of the lake Mjøsa and some of the river Glomma, the county also includes the historical place Eidsvoll,48 km north of Oslo, in which the national assembly ratified the Norwegian constitution in 1814. South of Eidsvoll is the airport of Oslo Airport at Gardermoen. Oslos previous international airport, Fornebu, is located in Akershus. The estate of the prince is located in Asker. The county has two hospitals, Akershus University Hospital and Sykehuset Asker og Bærum. The main road from continental Europe, E6, enters Akershus in the south, and runs through eastern Oslo, further to Gardermoen, E18 enters Akershus in the south-east, merges for a short stretch with E6 at Vinterbro in Ås, before running under central Oslo. E18 then turns south-west through Bærum and Asker before entering Buskerud County north of Drammen, e16 runs from the intersection with E18 in Sandvika into Buskerud County west of Sollihøgda. In 1662, Akershus became an Amt, and in 1685, Buskerud was separated from Akershus, in 1768, Hedmark and Oppland were also separated from Akershus to become Oplandenes Amt. In 1842, the city of Christiania was made a separate Amt, in 1919, the term Amt was changed to Fylke. In 1948, Aker, the greatest and the most populous municipality of Akershus, was transferred to the county of Oslo, the county is named after Akershus Fortress. The fortress was built in 1299, and the meaning of the name is the house of Aker, the name is somewhat misleading now, since the fortress is now outside Akershus. In fact, the administration of Akershus sits outside the county, as well, the coat-of-arms is from modern times. It shows a gable from Akershus Fortress, Akershus has a total of 22 municipalities, Akershus county website Media related to Akershus at Wikimedia Commons Akershus travel guide from Wikivoyage
