High quality education in mountains? It’s possible!

Mountain is a place to relax and recharge your batteries but don’t forget that there you can also find high quality education to prepare yourself to enter the job market!

 Several mountain regions have already invested in offering a large variety of training courses, aimed to high school students. 
For example, the university annex of Saragossa in the province of Teruel (Spain) has developed classes in car maintenance, electricity, management and computing, attended by many young people and giving them the chance to work locally.

The province of Teruel offers university courses too, such as the training class on palaeontology, aimed to young curators and restorers under 25.   

 

Photo: Provincia de Teruel

In the county of Hedmark as well, the municipalities of Tynset, Røros and Trøndelag developed several higher education courses such as engineering, tourism, law, finance and ICT.

On the other hand, other regions focused on distance learning not only for county residents but also for young people living outside the area. For example, Dalarna University offers distance learning for students living in the county or coming from more than 60 countries, giving them the chance to learn without leaving their social environment.

The aim of distance learning is, on one hand, to provide high quality education and, on the other hand, to acquaint foreign students with regional history and culture.

This is the approach adopted by the University of Highland and Islands (Scotland) as well. It offers an high quality Master of Science in Sustainable Mountain Development, which focuses on mountain issues and policies relating to cultural and environmental development.

You can still enrol to this course by downloading and filling the enrolment form available at http://www.uhi.ac.uk/

Source material: study realized for PADIMA project (Policies Against Depopulation In Mountain Areas). To know more, click here.