Sámi University College
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Sámi University College was established in 1989 and has about 150 students and 52 faculty, technical and administrative staff. It is one of 25 Norwegian state university colleges and located in Kautokeino
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The college has a national responsibility for Sámi
higher education, including education within teaching and journalism
. The college attempts to develop the syllabuses on the basis of Sámi needs, and attempts to develop Sámi as an academic language. The college has students from all four countries covered by Sapmi
.
Kautokeino
or Guovdageaidnu , is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Guovdageaidnu/Kautokeino...
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The college has a national responsibility for Sámi
SAMI
SAMI is a Microsoft accessibility initiative released in 1998. The structured markup language is designed to simplify creating captions for media playback on a PC, i.e. not for broadcast purposes....
higher education, including education within teaching and journalism
Journalism
Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...
. The college attempts to develop the syllabuses on the basis of Sámi needs, and attempts to develop Sámi as an academic language. The college has students from all four countries covered by Sapmi
Sapmi
Sapmi can refer to:* Nation of the Sami people* Sápmi , the area where the Sami people live in northern Europe* A Sami cultural park located in Kárášjohka...
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