Education is an important political tool for achieving high participation in working life and society, and publicly funded education is a core element in the Nordic welfare and working life model. In Norway, the right to free upper secondary education has contributed to almost all young people going straight from compulsory education to upper secondary education. About half of the students start a vocational education.
The Norwegian VET model stands out in an international context. The model is based on the classic apprenticeship tradition, where employers are responsible for a large part of the training. The social partners have an influence on the content of education through established structures for tripartite cooperation. At the same time, public authorities have more responsibility than is common in countries with a more traditional vocational training model, such as Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Vocational education and training has been an important field of research at Fafo since the early 1990s. The research topics include the status of tripartite cooperation in VET, the potential for increasing the number of apprenticeships, the labor market for newly qualified skilled workers, and prerequisites for the establishment of new occupations within the VET system. Nord-VET was a comparative Nordic research project where the purpose was to investigate strengths and weaknesses in vocational education in four Nordic countries. Currently, Fafo is leading an international research project, Moving trades. In this project, we investigate how increased labor migration after the EU enlargement affects employers' incentives to take in apprentices and recruit skilled labor.
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En utdanning til randsonen?Bernt Bratsberg, Torgeir Nyen & Oddbjørn Raaum
Economic returns to adult vocational qualificationsTove Mogstad Aspøy
Job quality through upskilling?Torgeir Nyen & Anna Hagen Tønder
Capacity for reform: the changing roles of apprenticeship in three Nordic countriesBernt Bratsberg, Torgeir Nyen & Oddbjørn Raaum
Adult Vocational Qualifications Reduce the Social Gradient in EducationKaja Reegård, Jon Rogstad & Kristinn Hegna
Stedlige perspektiver på skoleliv og yrkesfag | 2019 | Editoral - abstractLes mer og last ned pdfer / Read more and downloadDaniel Persson Thunqvist, Anna Hagen Tønder, Kaja Reegård
A tale of two reforms: Institutional change in vocational education and training in Norway and Sweden in the 1990sChristian Helms Jørgensen & Anna Hagen Tønder
Transitions from vocational education to employment in the Nordic countries | 2018 | Read more at RoutledgeTorgeir Nyen og Anna Hagen Tønder
Development of vocational skills through integration of practical training periods in school based vocational education in Norway | 2018 | Sammendrag / AbstractMaarit Virolainen & Anna Hagen Tønder
Progression to higher education from VET in the Nordic countries: Mixed policies and pathways | 2018 | Read more at RoutledgeAnna Hagen Tønder & Tove Mogstad Aspøy
When Work Comes First: Young Adults in Vocational Education and Training in NorwayKaja Reegård
Diversity of occupational orientations in Sales vocational education and trainingTorgeir Nyen, AsgeirSkålholt og Anna Hagen Tønder
Vocational Education and School to Work Transitions in Norway | 2015 | Buy/download chapterTorgeir Nyen og Anna Hagen Tønder
Cooperation and Reform in Vocational Education and Training | 2015 I: Fredrik Engelstad og Anniken Hagelund (red) Cooperation and Conflict the Nordic Way | Last ned / Download pdfKaja Reegård
Sales assistants in the making: Learning through responsibilityTorgeir Nyen og Anna Hagen Tønder
Prosjekt til fordypning - et taktskifte i fagopplæringen | 2013Ole Johnny Olsen
Bredde og fordypning i norsk fag- og yrkesopplæring. Spenninger i / mellom utdanning, arbeidsliv og perspektiver på læringKaja Reegård & Jon Rogstad
TRACK-VET: Developing, assessing and validating transversal key competences in the formal initial and continuing VET | 2019 | Last ned / download PDFLars J. Kirkebøen, Gaute Eielsen, Marte Rønning, Susann Strømsvåg, Silje Andresen, Kaja Reegård, Jon Rogstad, Jan Erik Berge og Lena Lindenskov
Matematikkdidaktisk etterutdanning av lærere og målrettet strukturert matematikkundervisning ved overgang til 8. trinn og VG1Olsen, O.J, Høst, H., Tønder, A.H.
Key challenges for Norwegian VET: The state of play | 2014 Download report1b_no.pdfTorgeir Nyen og Anna Hagen Tønder
Yrkesfagene under press | 2014 Yrkesfagene under press