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Watch a movie about Håkons choice on his journey to an unknown culture and participate in the competition on racism. The application film follows Håkon his experience of cultural differences on his journey to Africa. Your task is to help him choosing to correct tasks during the trip.
Target audiance The competition is particularly suitable for young people aged 12-15 years, but all other age groups are also welcome to watch the film and participate in the competition too. Teachers may like to use the application film in teaching.
Prizes - Competition 1: How to go further with Håkon? The best story teller will win an iPhone! - Competition 2: Create a slogan that makes immigrants feel welcome in Norway. Read more here
Immigrant Conference 2010: Diversity in the workplace - what is needed to succeed? will focus on recruiting and working environment. The purpose is to highlight success factors that contribute to the multicultural workplace and inclusive work environment. The organizers want to raise the success factors that contribute to the multicultural workplace and inclusive work environment.
Target audience - Directors and HR managers in local government units - Employees and union representatives in both the public and private sector - Immigrant Organizations. - Management and union officials in state owned enterprises Read more here
Breakfast Seminar on language minority pupils and xenophobia
The Housing Bank invites to a breakfast seminar with the theme: Modern society, diversity and school. Speakers in the seminar are:
Key speakers Senior lecturer Ivar Morken, University of Oslo and Senior Researcher Anders Bakken from NOVA.
Programme Most major cities in Europe have residents from all over the world. Local communities, living environments and schools are characterized by cultural and social diversity, for better or worse. Breakfast Seminar will be about two different problems related to growing up in modern, complex societies. Read more here
Fagforbund Union is inviting to a two days seminar on integration as the main theme.
Target audience The main target groups for the conference are mother language teachers, bilingual assistants, interpreters, program consultants, refugee consultants, staff at reception centers, care centers and others who work with unaccompanied asylum seekers and integration.
Program - Communications and power by Kjersti Børsum - Antiracist toolbox - Norsk Folkehjelp - Group work with professional ethical reflection on practical examples - Gender and Family - How to strengthen the services officered by the Fagforbund Union to those who work with integration Read more here
Bergen (Norway): Last spring many pupils went out from secondary schools without grades in subjects like Math and English. This is repeated every year. Many of these pupils have another mother tongue than Norwegian.
According to the Education Act, it is possible to exempt students from grades if they have an individual training plan.
In Kjøkkelvik school in Bergen about ten pupils had no grades in Norwegian, Math and English upon fulfilling their secondary school education this year.
- Most of the pupils are language minorities who are exempted from Norwegian as a subject at school, and there are also some other very weak students. We must try to get them through and to facilitate them, says the school principal Helge M. Haaland. Read more here
Norway: Over half of the customers in Mortensrud have another mother tongue than Norwegian. Here are the non-ethnic Norwegians which are the majority both among customers and employees.
Being able to communicate with customers in their native language may often be necessary.
The multi-cultural community works well - This is a pleasant place to work, we have good contact with colleagues and function as a good team, says Afshin.
Afshin speaks both Kurdish and Persian, and also sees it as an advantage. - But many speak good Norwegian. I also have many good, Norwegian customers who I have good contact with and can talk about everything with, he says. Read more here
The Inclusion Committee invites to a dialogue on immigration and employment.
Target audience For all who are interested in knowing more about the subject, or who wish to represent their to the committee to come. It is also possible to provide written contributions at the meeting. Should you have input to the debate on integration and inclusion in the workplace, e-mail to the committee at: post@inkluderingsutvalget.no
Time and place: Thursday 2nd September 18:00 to 21.00. Elvebakken High School, Vestre Elvebakken 3 (Oslo). Read more here
Conference: In the same boat - facilitating integration
Integration and Diversity Directorate (IMDi) is inviting to a two days conference: "in the same boat - facilitating integration" in the Grieg Hall in Bergen in Norway. The conference aims to raise the competence of employees in front-line services. Public services that are adapted to the diversity of population is important to ensure that everyone regardless of backgrounds and abilities are equal opportunities in society.
Target audience Leaders, political leadership, cultural workers, HR staff, employees of municipalities, counties and NAV and persons engaged in the development and change processes. There are also invited sector authorities and agencies, county offices and NGOs nationally and locally. Read more here
TV-2 news for immigrants launching 6th September TV 2 School in collaboration with VOX offer eight news programs in 2010. The programs and the features come with a rich set of tasks developed by TV 2 School and experienced teachers in adult education. Monday the 6th September is published this autumn's The first set of tasks programs and tasks are expected to be launched on Monday 6th September. From this date September until 13 December TV2 will post news every Monday.
Pilot project TV2 school has launched the news broadcasts on the internet for adult immigrants during winter 2010. The goal was to provide teachers in Norway a tool to vary and actualize their curriculum. Because the broadcasts and the tasks have been well received by teachers and pupils will TV2 school continue to try the project with news broadcasts on the internet for adult immigrants this autumn. The project is supported by VOX, the broadcasts and papers will be free. Read more here
A quarter of the pupils who have not completed high school end up outside education or employment. Many of these are language minorities who have another mother tongue than Norwegian.
- Education is the key to employment in a labor market that increasingly demands educated workers. Students who complete secondary schools are better equipped to meet society's challenges. It is bad that a large proportion of pupils choose to leave the education system, says KS director, Sigrunn Vågeng. Read more here
Breakfast Meeting: Østbergs Committee report - Diversity and Coping
In NOU 2010: 7 Diversity and coping, the Østberg Committee has looked at how the kindergarten, school, adult education and higher education help multi-lingual pupils take full advantage of their education. Although the Norwegian education system possesses many qualities, there are particular challenges associated with youth who come to Norway later and secondary schol drop out issue.
Østberg Committee has also concluded that there should be basic instruction in pupils' native language, so that multilingual pupils get the most out of their education. The Committee recommends that language training should be started as early as kindergarten, and continue over secondary school. Read more here
New Report: Children and adolescents living in low-income families What does it mean for children in Norway to grow up in a family that has a significantly lower income than most families? This issue is still relevant for most minority children in Norway.
To answer your question, NOVA and the Norwegian Women's Public Health Association (NKS) conducted a research project. The research includes interviews with children and parents from 1300 Norwegian families who have been followed over a period of ten years. Most of the informants come from a "low-income" range, while a minority comes from a "Supervisory" that represented all income groups.
Time and place Tuesday 31 August 9:30 to 11:30. NOVA, Munthes gate 29, Oslo, Large meeting room. Read more here
Early enhancement of language skills prevents dropout
New report: Language, stimulation and learning motivation The Norwegian Institute for Research on Adolescence, Welfare and Aging (NOVA), has published earlier today the results from the new research on: Language, learning stimulation and motivation - Early action and measures against dropping out from secondary education.
In particular, language minority children face double challenges in language learning, this is because they have to learn Norwegian as well as their mother tongue. Moreover, the parents of these children often have low education and/or fewer cultural resources than children with a Norwegian as their mother tongue.
One of the conclusions of the research was that measures must be implemented as early as preschool and school age children to prevent the dropout rate at secondary school. These measures should be implemented in addition to measures in the later phases. The measures should include strengthening of the language, literacy and other skills that are the basis for later learning. Another finding was that there is relatively little research on measures of at the school age. There is every indication that more research is needed on measures during this phase to enhance motivation. Read more here
Language minorities need inclusion and mother language tuition - not IQ tests
We have previously discussed an article by Professor Kamil Øzerk: "misuse of millions of dollars, the Parliament was deceived.". In a new book from Oslo, Unni Jakobsen Speech therapist, is alleging now that special education is used in a completely wrong way and it is wrong to assume that language minority pupils are poor in Norwegian because they are stupid.
language during stimulation in their native language and in Norwegian: Schoolchildren will end up as losers because of language problems, while the state funds used for multilingual pupils are [mis]used as an evidence of political power to act, without the care about the evaluation and results. Yet continuing to use the same means, writes Jakobsen in her new book. Jakobsen who has many years experience as a speech therapist from the district school in Oslo, described the pupils' bilingual skills as a "double half linguals", an issue which can lead to functional illiteracy.
The book raises strong criticism of official statistics on immigration, since only the first-generation immigrants and children of two foreign parents are included in these statistics. Minority population in Norway has a large presence of family by marriage and high reproduction. Their children are not counted as immigrants in the statistics although in this group suffer from major problems related to integration. Many of them in fact are against integration. Read more here
Norway: Bergens film director Anne Magnussen is the only Norwegian film director among the when 55 producers, television companies and investors collected invited to Bremen for workshops and presentations. Magnussen will present her documentary about the mother language rights-fighter George Sauerwein.
Georg Sauerwein was regarded as an advocate for ethnic minorities and a pacifist. Sauerweins is known for his struggle for language minorities and their right to their own culture in their mother tongue. Sauerwein was criticized for its commitment to the right of everyone to speak and write in their own language and gradually found his refuge in Dovre in Norway. Norway had a free press, and so he could continue the fight from Norway. Read more here
Watch a movie about Håkons choice on his journey to an unknown culture and participate in the competition on racism. The application film follows Håkon his experience of cultural differences on his journey to Africa. Your task is to help him choosing to correct tasks during the trip. 
Immigrant Conference 2010: Diversity in the workplace - what is needed to succeed? will focus on recruiting and working environment. The purpose is to highlight success factors that contribute to the multicultural workplace and inclusive work environment. The organizers want to raise the success factors that contribute to the multicultural workplace and inclusive work environment. 
The Housing Bank invites to a breakfast seminar with the theme: Modern society, diversity and school. Speakers in the seminar are: 
Fagforbund Union is inviting to a two days seminar on integration as the main theme. 
Bergen (Norway): Last spring many pupils went out from secondary schools without grades in subjects like Math and English. This is repeated every year. Many of these pupils have another mother tongue than Norwegian. 
Norway: Over half of the customers in Mortensrud have another mother tongue than Norwegian. Here are the non-ethnic Norwegians which are the majority both among customers and employees. 
The Inclusion Committee invites to a dialogue on immigration and employment. 
Integration and Diversity Directorate (IMDi) is inviting to a two days conference: "in the same boat - facilitating integration" in the Grieg Hall in Bergen in Norway. The conference aims to raise the competence of employees in front-line services. Public services that are adapted to the diversity of population is important to ensure that everyone regardless of backgrounds and abilities are equal opportunities in society. 
TV-2 news for immigrants launching 6th September 
The Municipal Sector Interest and Employer Organization (KS) has released a new booklet: 
In NOU 2010: 7 
New Report: Children and adolescents living in low-income families 
New report: Language, stimulation and learning motivation 
We have previously discussed an article by Professor Kamil Øzerk: "
Norway: Bergens film director Anne Magnussen is the only Norwegian film director among the when 55 producers, television companies and investors collected invited to Bremen for workshops and presentations. Magnussen will present her documentary about the mother language rights-fighter George Sauerwein. 
