Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training

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1. Report14 Oct 2026

   TALIS 2024: Young teachers expect shorter careers and fewer feel valued by society

   • The book «Et blikk på norske ungdomsskoler» is based on a large 2024 survey (TALIS). Norwegian teachers like their jobs and have a good working environment. But they feel society values their profession less. More have high stress and see more disruption in class.
   • Teachers are still fairly happy with their own school. But they are less happy with the teaching profession than in 2018, and fewer feel valued by society. This is lower in Norway than in the other Nordic countries. The youngest teachers especially expect to stay in the job for a shorter time than before.
   Children and youthSchoolScience
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2. Statistics14 Oct 2026

   Year-10 absence levels off at nine days and eight hours, but remains well above pre-pandemic levels

   • The typical Year-10 pupil was absent nine days and eight single lessons in 2025–26. That is the same as the year before, but three days and three hours more than in 2018–19.
   • 45 percent of pupils had ten or more days of absence. That is 3 percentage points fewer than the year before. Those with 20 days or more fell from 18 to 17 percent, but that is still almost double the share before the pandemic.
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3. Statistics14 Oct 2026

   Day absence in upper secondary falls for the first time since the pandemic, but hourly absence rises

   • Upper secondary students are absent two fewer days than the year before. This is the first drop since the pandemic.
   • At the same time, they miss two more hours of individual lessons (hourly absence).
   Children and youthSchool
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4. Analysis13 Oct 2026

   Science subjects have the lowest average grades among the largest upper-secondary elective subjects, while grades are otherwise stable

   • Among the ten biggest academic-track elective subjects in 2025–26, mathematics R1, physics 1 and chemistry 1 have the lowest averages. Breadth and elite sports 1 have the highest. The lowest of all electives is mathematics S1 at 3.5.
   • Since 2008–09, the average in mathematics R1 and physics 1 has risen only 0.1. In sociology and anthropology, law 1 and breadth sports 1 it has risen 0.5. In elite sports 1 it has risen 0.6.
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5. Report13 Oct 2026

   Proposed national rates for grants to private kindergartens in 2027 calculated from 2025 municipal costs

   • Telemarksforskning has calculated proposed rates for how much grant private kindergartens should receive in 2027. This follows the regulation on financing private kindergartens, adopted 23 March 2026 and applying from 2027.
   • The rates are only proposals. The final rates will be set in the grant regulation and published on lovdata.no.
   FamilyKindergartenMunicipalities
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6. Public consultation8 Oct 2026

   Directorate proposes six new academic-track streams in upper secondary, including a health stream

   • The Directorate for Education and Training wants input on six new streams in the academic track of upper secondary school. This is part of a task to propose changes towards 2030.
   • The six streams are: Natural Science, Technology and Science; Business, Management and Economics; Social Science and History; Health, Activity and Sports; Communication, Language and Media; and Aesthetic Subjects.
   Higher educationSchool
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7. News article7 Oct 2026

   Preliminary 2027 private school grant rates published, subject to budget changes

   • Early grant rates for private schools in 2027 have now been published.
   • The rates may change if the Storting (parliament) changes the budget.
   School
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8. Public consultation6 Oct 2026

   Transitional arrangement proposed for new module-structured curricula in the Education Regulations

   • The government proposes changing section 23-8, second paragraph of the Education Regulations. The change would create a transitional arrangement for new curricula divided into modules.
   • You can submit comments until 5 January. The text does not say more about what the arrangement involves.
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9. Public consultation5 Oct 2026

   Ministry of Education seeks input on direction for a new school day in Grades 1–2 – nothing yet decided

   • The Ministry of Education wants to hear how the school day for the youngest pupils (Grades 1–2) can be improved. It wants stronger reading, writing and maths, and more play and physical activity.
   • Three things are being considered: how to organise curriculum content (in subjects, broader subject areas or both), whether curricula should include goals for teaching as well as competence aims, and how school time should be divided.
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10. Project description1 Oct 2026

    Norway's Directorate for Education pilots a new digital quality-development tool for kindergartens in autumn 2026

    • Udir is testing a new digital tool to help kindergartens improve quality, following the discontinuation of the previous assessment tool.
    • The tool is being tested in a selection of kindergartens — large and small, private and municipal — from autumn 2026 and into 2027.
    Kindergarten
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