Kindergarten
Efforts to create the inclusive knowledge society must start early, and the government prioritises to lift the quality in the kindergarten sector. All kindergarten children must have a safe environment for development and learning in excellent kindergartens with enough staff with good expertise.
Funding of Kindergartens
The government's goal is that kindergartens should be available to all children regardless of their parents' finances.
Quality in Kindergartens
Kindergartens should lay good foundations for further development and learning.
Admission to places
The entitlement to a place in a kindergarten applies to children who turn one year old no later than the end of August in the year that they apply for a place.
More on Kindergarten
Current
Education provides opportunities for all
The government prioritises continuing education for teachers, raising quality in day-care institutions and more funding for research and higher education in the national budget for 2015.
Documents
Kindergarten Act
Kindergartens shall provide children under compulsory school age with good opportunities for development and activity in close understanding and collaboration with the children's homes.
The most important documents are bills (propositions), white papers, hearing documents and Official Norwegian Reports (NOUs). (These documents are primarily available in Norwegian.)
Resources
- The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training
- Recognition of teacher qualifications and kindergarten teacher qualifications
- The Education Mirror
- Kindergartens - figures
- Education - figures
- The Nordic Base of Early Childhood Education and Care
- Amounts transferred to families with children
- Framework Plan for the Content and Tasks of Kindergartens
Contact
Department of Early Childhood Education and Care
E-mail: postmottak@kd.dep.no
Phone: +47 22 24 22 47
Address: Postboks 8119 Dep, 0032 Oslo
Visitor address: Kirkegata 18,