Areas of responsibility
The
responsibilities of the Ministry are:
- Nursery education
- Primary
and lower secondary education, day-care facilities for school children and
resource centres for special education.
- Upper
secondary education, i.e. schooling and on-the-job training at workplaces.
- Institutions
of higher education, the State Educational Loan Fund and student grants.
- Lifelong
learning in all areas of education through various providers.
- Research
matters between ministries, basic allocations to the Research Council of
Norway, research institutions.
- International
programmes and institutions, Norwegian Meteorological Institute.
- Negotiations
concerning employees of the school system and subordinate agencies, personnel
and trade union matters, IT in education and gender equality.
- Administrative
tasks, budget and accounts.
