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Frederik II Videregående skole is the name of an upper secondary school located in the Norwegian city of Fredrikstad. The school is named after the Danish-Norwegian king Frederik II (1534-1588). The school is, with more than 1,200 students, one of the largest schools of its kind in Norway.
Schools in Norway are usually divided into the following categories: elementary schools (barneskole) for 1st to 7th grade, lower secondary schools (ungdomsskole) for 8th to 10th grade, upper secondary schools (videregående skole) for 11th to 13th grade, colleges (høgskole), and universities (universitet).
Fredrikstad used to have a large sawmill industry and was an important harbour for timber export, then later on shipbuilding, until the main yard was closed in 1988. The main industries are currently various chemical plants and other light industry. In 2005, Fredrikstad was the final host port for the Tall Ships' Race, attracting thousands to ...
It has campuses in Fredrikstad and Halden, and has around 7000 students (as of 2017) and 550 employees (as of 2017). The university college is one of the public university colleges in Norway, and is a result of five public colleges in Halden , Sarpsborg and Fredrikstad which were joined together as a part of the University College Reform ...
BMW and Yamaha Motor have invested in U.S.-based rare earths processing startup Phoenix Tailings, the latest move by manufacturers to boost production of the strategic metals outside of China.
Fredrikstad, Norway: Circulation: 22,877 (2005) Website: https://f-b.no: ... It was published six times a week from 1905, [2] and published daily since 1997. It ...
Fredrikstad Idrettsforening is a Norwegian athletics club from Fredrikstad, founded on 4 September 1896. As a stadium the club uses the Sentralidrettsanlegget in Lisleby, a borough of Fredrikstad. They hosted the Norwegian athletics championships in 2003. Its most prominent members are Mette Bergmann and Tor Øivind Ødegård.
[2] The school originated from the Vestheim School ( Vestheim skole ), founded by five people in 1891: Frederik Fredriksen, Nils Grøterud, Wilhelm Myhre, Hans H. K. Hougen, and Ole Jacobe Skattum. In 2017 the Norwegian state gave NOK 4 million to the school because it lacked any funding to pay for new teachers and school supplies. [ 3 ]