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by yobbo
1210 days ago
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In regions with depopulation there are disused buildings, unoccupied school rooms, and even churches in some cases. This is not a thing in big cities, and there are no facilities freely available to anyone. It is possible to get subsidised rooms/studios through "study circles" for music or theatre (for example), under certain conditions for accountability. "Folk high school" is equivalent to community college. |
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I thought a community college was just a college/university that aimed to serve the local community and its needs, rather than having terribly high research ambitions?
If so, it's completely different from folk high schools (in Norway, at least). They have no grades and no exams, and they serve 18-19 year olds from elsewhere than their local community. It's very rare to go to your own community's folk high school. Unlike all other education levels in Norway, folk high schools are boarding schools by default.
Also, because they struggle somewhat with popularity, they're quite focused on hobby or "useless" skills, from art to horse sports. There's even some esports offerings in recent years. They need to draw students in, and for most students with a traditional goal in mind such as becoming a nurse or an accountant, they would be a poor investment of a year, so they can't really offer very "practical" courses.
Young people go there to live their dream career for a while, get some more time to figure out what they can actually do as a career, and "make friends for life", a phrase you'll find a lot in folk high school promotional material. It's pretty much code for "find a serious boyfriend/girlfriend". Rare for arenas where that's the goal, they're typically rather gender balanced, or even with women slightly overrepresented.