MPs Guri Melby, Abid Raja, and Grunde Almeland tabled proposals to ensure completion and quality in upper secondary education. The Standing Committee on Education and Research recommends the Storting adopt two proposals: that the government enter into dialogue with municipalities and county authorities on how to support students who do not qualify for general university entrance qualification, vocational certificates, or apprenticeship schemes; and that the government investigate how pilot programmes using modular organisation in upper secondary education could be implemented.
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Committee recommendation I: The Storting asks the government to engage municipalities and county authorities in dialogue to assess solutions for how best to support students who do not qualify for general university entrance qualification, vocational certificates, or apprenticeship schemes. The Storting must be presented with a comprehensive cost estimate of the measures within the completion reform.
Committee recommendation II: The Storting asks the government to investigate how pilot programmes with modular organisation in upper secondary education can be implemented, and to present an assessment to the Storting in an appropriate manner.
Minority proposal from the Liberal Party: The Storting asks the government to present a financing plan to ensure the completion reform achieves its goal of bringing as many students as possible through an educational pathway that qualifies them for further study or working life.
Minority proposal from the Liberal Party: The Storting asks the government to clarify how students who do not qualify for general university entrance qualification, vocational certificates, or apprenticeship schemes can be assured a complete educational pathway, with cooperation between the municipality and county authority organised in the student's best interest.
Minority proposal from the Conservative Party, Socialist Left Party, Centre Party, Christian Democratic Party, and Liberal Party: The Storting asks the government to ensure all schools have access to restricted browsers for use in both teaching and assessment situations.
Minority proposal from the Christian Democratic Party and Liberal Party: The Storting asks the government to give teachers the right to and actual access to further and continuing education, provided they meet the relevant criteria.
Minority proposal from the Liberal Party: The Storting asks the government to advance and prioritise work on how to distribute hours between general subjects and programme-specific subjects, with the aim of giving students greater opportunity for specialisation, stronger motivation to learn, and better preparation as a student or apprentice.
Minority proposal from the Conservative Party: The Storting asks the government to introduce compulsory introductory courses in Norwegian and mathematics for students beginning upper secondary education with weak grades in these subjects. Students must reach a sufficient level of proficiency before proceeding to ordinary instruction in these subjects.