Abroad study guides: Study in Norway

 With a wide range of high quality courses and great flexibility, Norwegian institutions prove to be an ideal study destination. From vocational subjects to postgraduate and doctorate level, there are plenty of opportunities for students to fulfill their ambitions.

Norway offers you a unique student experience and Norwegian institutions of higher education welcome applications sent by qualified students from all over the world.


Internationalization is a priority within all sectors of the Norwegian education system, and universities and university colleges are constantly working to facilitate for international students. Around 14 000 foreign nationals are currently enrolled at Norwegian institutions of higher education. International students may apply for admission to a variety of undergraduate and graduate degree programs. You may come to Norway as student through established exchange programs, institutional agreements or as a so called "free mover", where you arrange the stay by yourself (type of study, length and financing).

Quality education
With a wide range of high quality courses and great flexibility, Norwegian institutions prove to be an ideal study destination. From vocational subjects to postgraduate and doctorate level, there are plenty of opportunities for students to fulfill their ambitions. You will also benefit from the informal atmosphere at Norwegian universities and university colleges, where teachers are easily approachable and tuition often takes place in small groups. Most institutions also have well equipped computer facilities with free Internet access.

Study off the beaten track
In our northern corner of the world you can combine your studies with exciting outdoor activities, both winter and summer. You can see the Aurora Borealis ("Northern lights"), experience the midnight sun, fjords and mountains. Challenge yourself with skiing, white water rafting or climbing. Or simply enjoy the fresh air, clean water and lots and lots of space. As a student in Norway you will never be short of possibilities for unique nature experiences.

Admission & Application
In order to obtain the necessary application forms and information about the application deadlines you will have to contact each university or university college. In general the application deadline for foreign students is between December 1 to March 15 for courses starting the following autumn (August).Please note that some institutions have separate "pre-qualification" deadlines that are earlier than this.

Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (NOKUT):The Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (NOKUT) supervises and helps to develop the quality of higher education in Norway through evaluation, accreditation and recognition of quality systems, institutions and course provisions. NOKUT is the official Norwegian ENIC-NARIC center.

For students with a Norwegian identity number most applications to undergraduate studies at public institutions of higher education in Norway are processed by a centralised application processing center called Universities and Colleges Admission Service (UCAS - Samordna opptak).

Below you will find the general requirements to previous education. These are minimum requirements determined by NOKUT. Please note that institutions may have higher and/or additional requirements for all or some programs.

Academic requirements
A compilation of country-specific information called the GSU-list (formerly SIS list) states what level of education applicants from different countries need to meet for entry into Norwegian higher education, including any requirements concerning proficiency in English. For courses where the language of instruction is Norwegian, proficiency in the Norwegian language is also required.

Undergraduate studies
Completion of secondary education at advanced level, equivalent to passing the exam at the end of Norwegian secondary school, is the general basic requirement for entry to Norwegian universities and university colleges. For students from some countries at least one year of completed studies at the university level is required in addition.

Please check the GSU-list for detailed information regarding additional requirements for your country.

Some study programs have special admission requirements, usually relating to specialist subjects or fields of study from secondary school. Please check wit

Masters programs
Admission requirements are decided by each university and university college based on an academic evaluation of the applicants.Applicants for Masters programs have normally obtained an undergraduate/Bachelor's degree or equivalent of at least 3 years' duration. The degree must include courses equal to at least 1 1/2 years of full-time studies in a subject relevant to that of the program applied for.

In special cases, the first (and sometimes the second) year of study at a foreign higher education institution will not be recognized as higher education in Norway.

For more information and original link visit :www.studyinnorway.no, accessed 20 September 2011

h the institution for information about these special qualifications.

University of Melbourne

The University of Melbourne is an Australian public university located in Melbourne, Victoria.
Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria.
Address: Parkville VIC 3010, Australia
Motto: Postera Crescam Laude
Enrollment: 38,281 (2012)
Phone: +61 3 9035 5511

Gavilan Library

Internet Search Engines and Subject Directories
Search engines are automated programs (sometimes called spiders or bots) that crawl through the Web and index the pages they find, creating a database that they use to match your search terms.

•  AllTheWeb AlltheWeb combines one of the largest and freshest indices with the most powerful search features that allow anyone to find anything faster than with any other search engine.
• Bing Bing is a search engine that finds and organizes the answers you need so you can make faster, more informed decisions.
•  Ask Ask.com strives to be the most intuitive, relevant & personalized search destination on the web.
•  Dogpile Dogpile was built to give users the best search results available on the Web. This is accomplished by searching all the most popular engines and retrieving the best combined results.
•  Google Google contains a subject directory, and image search and much more.
•  HotBot From the main search screen, you can also search using Yahoo. Use the advanced search screen for more powerful search feature.  For example, you can limit your search to only web pages that come from a university or college.
•  Ixquick Ixquick takes your query to several search tools at once, finds hits, and returns them to a single result list. Because it uses several engines, the searching refinements are limited to the lowest common denominator.

•     Mamma A globally popular meta-search engine, Mamma.com brings forth refined search results from the web’s top search engines; assisting users to efficiently find the information they seek online.
      Yahoo Yahoo is the web's oldest "directory" and contains web and image search and much more.
      Yippy Yippy queries several top search engines, combines the results, and generates an ordered list based on comparative ranking and then groups similar results together into 'clouds'. Clouds help you see your search results by topic.

The education gender gap is bad for girls as well as boys

Many girls, faced with the same pressures as their male counterparts, respond by becoming too compliant, says Melissa Benn. Photograph: Alamy

 

More girls are applying to university this year; 62,000 more of them to be exact. To anyone who has followed the steady rise in girls' educational achievements over the past few decades, this should come as no surprise. While boys may be gaining ground in recent years (notching up more top A-level marks), overall girls now "outperform" boys from the early years through to postgraduate qualifications.

No surprise either, the headlines about boys being disadvantaged and "left behind". But could the new gender gap in university admissions point to how our secondary schools are failing girls as well as boys, albeit in more subtle ways?

No one would decry the rise in girls' achievements, or take pleasure in the relative failure of boys. Exam success lays down a first and important marker of, and template for, intellectual development throughout life. It confirms the importance of effort and celebrates the productive mastery of difficulty.

However, exam success is not so good at developing the equally important skills of experimentation, challenge and risk-taking. It is hard to convey to those without children of exam age just how fact-choked and test-obsessed schools have become. For some boys, the resulting boredom and frustration provokes them to make the "wrong" sort of challenge to the school's authority. But many girls, faced with the same pressures, respond by becoming too compliant.

In Tough Young Teachers, the riveting new TV series on Teach First graduates, we witness the tensions between Charles, a slightly stolid RE teacher, and the articulate Caleb who just won't jump through the hoops. Dragged into the head's office, reduced to tears, Caleb just won't play the game – even for a B. And in another often chaotic classroom, who walks across the desks? Boys. I don't recall a single girl sashaying along the tops of the tables. Pretty much all of them had their heads down.

There are successful and not-so-successful versions of the heads-down scenario, and it's the least successful we should really worry about. But conducting interviews for my recent book, it was striking the number of parents who worried about the side effects of their daughters' exam efficiency.

The following example is typical: "She methodically went through every syllabus for every course, discovered what the 'assessment objectives' for every relevant unit were … and exactly how they would be marked." Those same parents also report that it is still often boys who dominate classroom discussions, if and when those conversations happen.

What many parents of high-achieving girls worry about is the wholesale caution, a kind of female compliance that feels horribly familiar and that too easily leads teenage girls to crush and suppress their own questions, uncertainties, furies, hunches and passions. In short, all the things that make individuals interesting.

Mothers, in particular, know that too much obedience won't serve our daughters well later in life. Talented, hard-working women often flounder in work because they haven't been taught to think or fight for themselves, psychologically, professionally or financially. Even the Girls Day School Trust, a chain of independent schools, has instigated "failure weeks" in some of its schools because they think girls have become too risk-averse, obedient or unhelpfully modest.

Who knows? It could turn out that some of those 18-year-old young men who have decided not to continue into the rather depressing world of modern higher education could be making a bold decision to get going in the jobs market. Let the good girls sit in overcrowded lecture halls – with their heads down.

The best college of India(AIU)

Governance of AIU is Committee based. The Standing Committee is responsible for the overall governance supported by sub-committees. The President is the Head and the Secretary General, the principal Executive of the Association. The Administration Division provides personnel, material and usual administrative support to the activities of AIU. It maintains the plant, equipment, essential service, does human resource management and deals with legal matters.

The Campus

AIU has its own building with beautiful glazed tower built on

a 0.340 acre plot of land in the institutional area. Though it is located ideally at the centre of the city, it is free from the hustle and bustle of the large city. It has roads on two sides and buildings of important establishments in the surrounding vicinity. The building accommodates all the Divisions. A guest-house with three star facilities is maintained at the second floor which is exclusively meant for use as Rest Room-cum-Office for the visiting Vice Chancellors/Directors of member universities/Institutions. Besides uninterrupted power supply there is round the clock security.

How to reach AIU

The AIU House is situated near ITO, just opposite to National Bal Bhawan. All the three major rail-heads viz., New Delhi, Old Delhi and Hazarat Nizamudin; the Inter State Bus Terminal and the Indira Gandhi International Airport are at easily approachable distance from AIU.
New Delhi Railway Station -- 2.5 Kms
Old Delhi Railway Station -- 3.0 Kms
H. Nizamudin Rly. Station -- 6.0 Kms
Inter State Bus Terminal (ISBT) -- 3.0 Kms
Indira Gandhi International Airport -- 18.0 Kms

 For obtaining information :

AIU has put on its website most of the information normally sought by the students, teaching community and parents under each division and the FAQ. Even after checking these, if there are queries, they may be addressed to the respective divisions or to the
administration @aiuweb.org
or
sent in the following address:
The Secretary General
Association of Indian Universities
AIU House,
16, Comrade Indrajit Gupta Marg
New Delhi-110002
Phone No.23230059
Fax No.23232131