SEET SeminarAmsterdam January 29th 2010

Policy for Entrepreneurial Education in NORWAY

By/ ass. professor Inger Karin Røe Ødegård

Inger Karin Røe Ødegård

Entrepreneurship in Education 2004 – 2006 – 2009 2014

• Three Ministries responsible for the national Entrepreneurship policy

‒ The Ministry for Education and Research‒ The Ministry for Trade and Industry‒ The Ministry for Local Government and Regional Development

• A national Strategy from primary school to College and University level

• 2004 – Strategy Plan 1 (See the opportunities and make them work)

• 2006 – Revision, Strategy Plan 2 (New national Knowledge Promotion Reform and subject curricula, Grade

1-13)

• 2008 – Evaluation• 2009 – Action Plan in the period up to 2014

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Aim achievement2004 - 2010

Inger Karin Røe Ødegård

• Increased cooperation between educational institutions, business community and local- as well as national public sector• Competence upgrading – teachers and principals in primary and secondary schools• Teacher Training institutions cross the country offer entrepreneurship courses/studies• Junior Achievement-Young Enterprise – Government support in the context of following-up the national Strategy

Achieved

Not Achieved

• Lecturers in Teacher Colleges have not strengthened their competence• Regional differences with regard to the extent of activities• Regional differences to which extent the strategy is grounded by the school owners• Textbooks/materials

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The FUTURE - improvement

• Strengthen the entrepreneurship competence of lectures and school managers

• Develop and disseminate textbooks and instruction manuals

• Research - widen the knowledge-base about entrepreneurship in education

• Transnational collaboration concerning entrepreneurship in education

• The Oslo Agenda – a rich menu of proposals (51 % of the proposed actions are honoured in the Norwegian policy)