Åsane Upper Secondary School is situated outside Bergen which is Norway’s second largest city.  Bergen has around 270 000 inhabitants and is a lively and historically interesting town. The center of the town is quite small as the town is old (founded in 1070) and situated between seven little mountains. The people in Bergen are fond of their town and proud of its beauty and history, never quite forgetting that it used to be the capital of Norway.

Åsane upper secondary is situated some 15 km from Bergen. Åsane is one of Bergen’s largest suburbs with around 30 000 (and growing) inhabitants.  The school has around 400 pupils. The school also administrates the prison education in Bergen and quite a few of our teachers teach inmates in four different prisons around Bergen. Because of this and because vocational classes only have up to 15 students in each class, we employ around a hundred teachers.

In the coming years the school will change dramatically as a new school building is planned. The new school will have approx. 1200 students. Three different schools will move into this school and Åsane upper secondary as we know it, will change in many different ways.

The Upper Secondary Vocational School Senec is situated in Senec, which is a small town known for its lakes called Sunny Lakes. Senec is just 25 km far from Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.

The school provides three types of education for the students aged 15 – 19:

full upper secondary education (study takes for 4 years),

• upper secondary education (study takes for 3 years),
• extension upper secondary education (study takes for 2 years) for graduates from three-year upper secondary education to get full upper secondary education.

Our school focuses on six fields of study:

Four-year study

1. 1.      Business School

(full upper secondary education) – graduates  have theoretical knowledge  and  practical skills to manage a small company and they are qualified for starting their own business or they        can study at universities.

1. 2.      Environment

(full upper secondary education) – graduateshave theoretical knowledge and  practical skills to monitor the environment, to solve problems of environment protection or they can study at universities.

1.  3.   Technical Lycée (Lyceum)

(full upper secondary education) – graduates are prepared for jobs in area of informatics and engineering or they can study to be bachelors and engineers.

Three-year study

1.   Car Repairer/Mechanic

(upper secondary education) – graduates have theoretical knowledge and practical skills as craftsmen to repair cars or they can work as tradesmen, work in services and manufacturing or they can continue studying on extension upper secondary education in our school.

2.  Technical and Administrative Staff

(upper secondary education) – graduates  master typing and secretarial work, they can work as lower administrative staff in transport, production, trade and services,  warehousing or they can continue studying on extension upper secondary education  in our school.

Two-year study

1.   Sale and Service of vehicles

(extension upper secondary education for students from t              hree-year upper secondary     education) – graduates get full upper secondary education, they can work or study at        universities.

2.   Business in handicraft and services

(extension upper secondary education for students from three-year upper secondary       education) – graduates get full upper secondary education, they can work in business        or study at universities.