Bridging The Sex Gap: What Norway Tin Laissez Passer On Notice Larn From Other Countries

By Francesca Borgonovi too Soumaya Maghnouj
Directorate for Education too Skills

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Drop-out rates amid boys are high across many OECD countries, only the phenomenon is especially pronounced inward Norway. To a large extent, this is due to Norway’s success inward providing opportunities for girls to succeed inward school. Considering the progress that Kingdom of Norway has made inward closing the sex gap for girls, it should live on able to produce too hence for boys, every bit well. Yet manlike someone students proceed to underachieve, relative to their woman someone counterparts, too the gap has exclusively widened inward recent years.

Our novel report, The Gender Gap inward Educational Outcomes inward Norway, offers to a greater extent than or less possible explanations for this persistent gap, too outlines potential strategies that Kingdom of Norway too other countries could role to mitigate sex disparities. The report, published today, uses an international comparing analysis to pigment a comprehensive portrait of academic sex disparities inward Kingdom of Norway too choose OECD countries, accounting for sex gaps inward achievement, attainment, attitudes, beliefs too behaviours.

Most of the policies too practices described inward our study comes from 3 peer-countries that were identified every bit especially relevant to Norway: Finland, the Netherlands too the United States. These countries convey all implemented a attain of policies too programmes to address boys’ underachievement through diverse channels. Some initiatives, such every bit the Becoming a Man programme inward the United States, target the gap directly, through additional tutoring too mentoring of boys at run a jeopardy of dropping-out; others, such every bit the three-tiered educatee support-model inward Republic of Finland too the “Drive to Reduce Drop-Out Rates” stimulate inward the Netherlands, tackle factors that are associated alongside boys’ underachievement, including infrequent reading habits,higher truancy rates too disengagement from school.
Kingdom of Norway has an chance to atomic number 82 the agency inward improving the academic achievement of girls too boys.
Other countries convey implemented policies to fight these potential causes, every bit well, including to a greater extent than or less that could back upwardly Norway’s efforts to bring down drop-out rates amid boys. The Premier League Reading Stars inward England, for example, is a reading intervention that targets students betwixt the ages of 8 too 13. The intervention is administered yesteryear teachers or schoolhouse librarians, too includes 10 themed literacy lessons where football game stars verbalize almost their dearest for reading. Sweden’s Read to me, Daddy first targets working fathers who belong to local merchandise unions that encourage dads to read to their children. And inward Iceland, a specially-designed Risk Detector platform  helps schoolhouse counsellors to accurately set students who are at run a jeopardy of dropping out earlier completing upper secondary education. Kingdom of Norway could clit upon the lessons learned from these programs to guide too bolster its ain initiatives to narrow the sex gap inward achievement.

Kingdom of Norway today has all of the tools it needs to empower both boys too girls to plough over their sum potential inward education. The province lately created a National Commission on Gender Equality inward Education to address these issues, too nosotros promise that our study volition assistance advance its efforts fifty-fifty further.  As it continues to function toward achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal on inclusive too equitable education, Kingdom of Norway has an chance to atomic number 82 the agency inward improving the academic achievement of girls too boys, too promoting prosperity for years to come.


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