Current Trends in Norwegian Education Reform

Abstract

The reform of the Ukrainian education system is one of the key tasks of modern national policy, as a result of which the issue of considering and borrowing positive foreign educational experience is updated, which determines the relevance of scientific research. The purpose of the work is to analyse and identify the characteristic features of the process of development and modernisation of the Norwegian educational system. In the study, the author used a number of general scientific theoretical research methods, in particular, the analysis and synthesis of scientific and methodological literature, and the comparison and generalisation of the developed source base. The paper deals with the problem of analysing the current educational reform in Norway. It was established that the country belongs to the leading developed countries in the field of educational policy, and its level is an important factor in intellectual, economic, social, scientific and technical, innovation, technological, and cultural development. The main reasons and consequences of reforming the Norwegian educational space are substantiated. The author’s vision of Norway s educational reform is presented. It was determined that focusing on the modern labour market, Norwegian education priorities today include: the ability to operate with innovative technologies and knowledge; a combination of conventional and alternative education, public and private; increasing the role and importance of education in the life of society, turning it into a real production and social force, the central connecting link of the system “science – technology – man – production – culture”. The practical value of the paper lies in the structural analysis of the Norwegian experience of reforming the educational system, which allows reviewing the problematic aspects of Ukrainian education and find relevant methods for solving them