The best from two Schools … An Assessment of the Partnership between an International/North-American and a Norwegian School in Kenya

Abstract

For the school years 2002/2003 and 2003/2004 there was established a partnership program between The Norwegian Community School and the international school Rosslyn Academy in Nairobi Kenya. The aim of the project was to give the Norwegian students at Junior High level a school program that would be acceptable socially and academically and at the same time prepare the students for the school situation they would meet on going home to Norway. This report presents this partnership program and assesses the quality of the program with special focus on some selected perspectives. Furthermore it is an aim to present information that may be of some value with further development of this partnership in mind, and/or for similar schemes in different contexts. The concrete partnership continues also through the school year 2004/2005, in expectance of approval from the Norwegian school administration.