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After graduating from junior high school, the student is faced with the first serious choice in life. Go to high school or technical school, popularly known as a vocational school. Each school has three years that start the new year after the holidays. Before getting into your dream school, the student will be checked against two criteria. Grades and very important presence in the Norwegian system.
Let's assume that there is no problem with either of them. The last application deadline is March 1, when students and their teacher log on to the Vigo.no website (or similar, depending on the region). On this day, the student will need a Fødselsnummer, possibly a BankID or a temporary personal number. The student can apply for 3 majors (in some places it is 5 majors) and from August he will go to the first school that accepts him. If a student is admitted to two (or more) majors, he/she will be enrolled in the school that is highest on the list.
Also a little piece of advice, first apply for the major you would most like to go to.
Wojtek is finishing elementary schooling in Norway
To avoid confusion, for the purposes of this article, I will tell a hypothetical story of a student named Wojtek.
Wojtek wants to study programming in Norway. He knows that this requires general education, which is provided by Studiespesjalisering, or as it is called in Poland, high school. Some schools also offer courses such as Toppidrett, which is more focused on athletes but still provides the full education required to study in Norway.
Wojtek is not an athlete, so he enrolls first in Studiespesialisering, then in Elektro, which offers education in electronics and introductory programming, and in Kunst, Design og Arkitektur.
secondary school
In the middle of summer, Wojtek receives a message that he did not get into Studiespesialisering, but Elektro will gladly accept him. It's a pity, but Wojtek, as a Pole, is a resolute boy and he already has a plan how to get to his dream studies.
First, he will finish vocational school, in the meantime learning as much as possible about programming and computers, and then he will do an additional year of preparation for studies, commonly known as Påbygg.
In the first of three years (VG1), Wojtek has mathematics, Norwegian, physical education and electrical, automatics and electronics classes divided equally. At the end of the year, our Wojtek has another choice to make, namely which direction he wants to go next.
Apart from specialized majors such as aircraft electronics and the like, Wojtek has three choices. Electricity, i.e. laying electric cables in buildings, connecting lamps or, for those who like adrenaline in everyday life, climbing high-voltage poles.
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Automation offers work with factory robots, widely understood electronics used in factories and other places where robots replace people in hard but repetitive work.
Electronics is the way among computers, lines of code and other low-voltage equipment. In the second year, they deal mainly with modems and the Internet, and alarms of all kinds. The third year I offer work with servers, computers, radio waves and the like.
Internships
Wojtek, still dreaming of studying programming, decides to study electronics. Here you should know that in the second year of all majors, internships begin in October. Once a week, Wojtek will work all day long in his profession. Here you will gain practical experience under the supervision of people who work in the industry on a daily basis. Many schools have ongoing agreements with businesses in the area to provide students with a place to practice. However, it would be best if Wojtek started looking for a place himself by going to such companies in person or asking for friends.
At the end of the second year, Wojtek faces another choice. He can now go to Påbygg for a year or he can continue to study electronics. Deciding to finish his studies, Wojtek enrolls in VG3. Here, too, practice takes place once a week, plus two uninterrupted weeks in the winter.
Having graduated in electronics, Wojtek decides not to take Fagbrev, the exam that will give him a license to practice, because it would require an additional year of practice. Instead, Wojtek sticks to his already chosen course and applies to Påbygg via Vigo.no (or other local equivalent). They accept him without major problems, and by a strange twist of fate, Wojtek ends up at a school that did not accept him for Studiespesialisering.
VG4
Påbygg consists of 6 items. Norwegian, maths, history, nature, PE and an optional subject that is chosen at the beginning of the year. The list of extra subjects varies between schools and very often they have different schedules, so it would be difficult to describe them all here. Sometimes it's classes like biology, foreign languages or marketing.
After a year, Wojtek has completed all his exams and can now apply for his desired studies. He can go to a state university or apply for a place at a private university.
But that's a topic for another article. Good luck Wojtek.
