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The Department of Labour Market Affairs

The Department is responsible for tasks relating to the promotion of a well-functioning labour market, and it is responsible for policies and measures taken to help the unemployed and for some of the measures aimed at the occupationally disabled.

Administrative leadership

The Secretary General is the administrative head of the Ministry. The Ministry's leader group consists of the Secretary General, the Deputy Secretary General, the Head of Information and the Director Generals of the Ministry's Departments.

Other political staff

The Sami people

The state shall take steps to ensure that the Sami people can further develop and strengthen their own culture, their own language and their own business and industry and community life.

National minorities

Groups with a long-standing attachment to the country are defined as national minorities. In Norway these minorities are: Kvens/Norwegian Finns (people of Finnish descent in Northern Norway), Jews, Forest Finns, Roma and Romani people/Taters.

Legal Affairs Department

The Legal Affairs Department provides legal expertise for the Government and the central government administration, and has particular responsibility for coordinating Norway’s positions on matters of international law in international forums.

Director General Kristian Jervell

Related Institutions

Subordinate agencies

History – The first Ministry

The Ministry of Education and Research was the first ministry to be established when Norway became an independent state in 1814. The Ministry of Education and Research celebrated 200 years on 28 November 2014.

Department for Higher Education, Research and International Affairs

Director General Anne Line Wold

Department for Education, Training and Skills Policy

Director General Erik Blom-Dahl

The Communication Unit

The Communication Unit coordinates communication by the Ministry.This includes media relations and monitoring, strategic communication with the sector and advising the Ministry’s departments and political leadership. The Communication Unit is also

Senior adviser Hanne Roald

Department for Schools and Kindergartens

Director General Kjersti Flåten

Department for Governance of Higher Education and Research Institutions

Director General Maria Tagmatarchi Storeng

Contact the Ministry of Education and Research

Ministry of Education and Research Visiting address: Kirkegata 18, Oslo Mailaddress: Post box 8119 Dep, 0032 Oslo, Norway E-mail: postmottak@kd.dep.no Tel. + 47 22 24 90 90

Departments

Organisation

The Ministry is headed by the Ministers. The political leadership also includes state secretaries and political advisors. The Secretary General is the senior civil servant at the Ministry.

Administrative staff

The Secretary General, the Ministry’s highest ranking civil servant, coordinates the work between the political team and the Ministry’s departments. The staff of the Secretary General includes the Press and Information Office, the Controller and a

Other political staff

The political staff of the Ministries consists of state secretaries and political advisor. State secretaries are appointed in a State Council Meeting, while political advisors are hired by the Office of the Prime Minister. The political staff are

Press centre

Press enquiries directed at the political leadership and Ministry should be submitted via the Communication Unit.