Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The University of Tromsø is the largest research and educational institution in Northern Norway and the sixth-largest university in Norway. [4] The university's location makes it a natural venue for the development of studies of the region's natural environment, culture, and society.
The Norway-America Association (Norwegian: Norge-Amerika Foreningen, abbreviated to NORAM) is a Norwegian non-profit organization established in 1919. It works for increased cooperation between the United States and Norway within higher education. It gives about 0.5 million US dollars per year divided into seventy scholarships.
Akureyri (Iceland) Ilisagvik, Alaska (USA) Longyearbyen, Svalbard (Norway) Montreal, Quebec (Canada) Rovaniemi, Lapland (Finland) Nuuk, Greenland (Denmark) Umeå, Western Bothnia (Sweden) There are 143 member institutions of UArctic , most of which are educational institutions and most of which are from the Arctic states (listed below).
As the only faculty of law in Norway until 1980, it traditionally educated all lawyers of Norway and remains the country's most important law faculty, educating around 75% of all new legal candidates in Norway. Its law programme is one of the most competitive programmes to get into at any Norwegian university, with an acceptance rate of 12%.
The member organizations contribute resources to the University of the Arctic. Some of the countries with participating organizations, including Canada, Finland and Norway, provide funds for the university and its different programs, though the Federal Government of Canada decided in 2011 to cut its funding by 75 percent.
In 1811, the Royal Frederick's University (now the University of Oslo) was established, based on the traditions and curriculum of the University of Copenhagen and effectively as a Norwegian successor institution. It remains the country's highest ranked university, and was Norway's only university until 1946.
The Arctic archipelago of Svalbard has just one unsold private property, listed at €300 million—but the Norwegian government is fighting to block its sale Prarthana Prakash July 2, 2024 at 6:58 AM
Norway has a united and regulated legal profession where all lawyers hold the same professional degree obtained after an integrated and comprehensive 5-year (formerly 6-year) university programme with highly competitive admission requirements, that gives the right to use the legally protected title lawyer (Norwegian: jurist) and in itself ...