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The Faculty of Education (ALU) is the largest faculty at Volda University College with approximately 1000 students and 60 staff members.
The Faculty of Education offers programmes qualifying for professional work in pre-schools, primary and junior secondary schools. If you would like to work with children and youths, teacher education could be the professional career for you. Pedagogical work at the various levels of schooling requires teachers with a solid professional competence in a variety of fields. The Faculty of Education at VUC incorporates its long traditions for teacher training with the perspectives of modern interactive teaching methods and ICT-based teaching to provide students the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed in the education system.
In addition to the 4-year General Teacher Education Programme, the Faculty of Education offers a number of subjects and subject areas of 30 and 60 ECTS credits, subjects that the students may choose as in-depth studies.
 
The Faculty of Education is located in the Kaarstad building and in the adjoining annexes.
The Faculty of Education has 100 year-old tradition for teacher education. In 1895 the Volda Teacher College was established, a college that later merged with the District College to form the Volda University College. The aesthetically pictoresque main building (the Kaarstad Building) symbolizes the rich traditions the teacher education builds on. This building was constructed at a time when the College was the largest institution for teacher education in the Nordic countries. At present, students spend their time in modern and well-equipped facilities, tailored to the needs of the various subjects taught.
Study Programmes offered:
The Faculty of Education offers courses in Arts and Crafts, Out-door Life, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Mathematics, Norwegian, ICT and Media Studies, Drama/Theatre Arts, Home Economics, Christianity and Religion, Pedagogy and Music.
For more information about the Faculty of Education, please contact Bjørn Krøvel, phone +47 7007 5311or international coordinator Kjell Holby, kho@hivolda.no phone +47 7007 5307
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