- Bergen Handelsgymnasium
Bergen Handelsgymnasium is an
upper secondary school inBergen ,Norway . Established in 1904, [ [http://bhg.hfk.no/templates/Page.aspx?id=2626 Official homepage] ] it is one of the oldest gymnasia in the country. Its architect wasJens Zetlitz Monrad Kielland , [ [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kielland/slekt/per00437.htm#0 Jens Zetlitz Monrad Kielland] ] a nephew of the novelistAlexander Kielland .In 2006, the school won a Holberg Prize, with a project on school lunches. [ [http://www.holbergprisen.no/skole/en_skoleprosjekt.html The Holberg Prize - School projects] ] The same year, the school was threatened with being shut down and merged into a new, larger school,Cite web|url=http://www.bt.no/lokalt/bergen/article254509.ece|title=Over og ut for Tanks og Handelsgym|accessdate=2008-04-03|publisher=Bergens Tidende|year=2006|author=Kjetil Linde Holo, Pål Andreas Mæland, Krister Clausen Hoaas|language=Norwegian] but it was later decided that this will not be done.Cite web|url=http://www.bt.no/lokalt/bergen/article320831.ece|title=Handelsgym overlever|accessdate=2008-04-03|publisher=Bergens Tidende|year=2006|author=Pål Andreas Mæland|language=Norwegian] The Media and Communication study program at the school is one of the most popular in the county.Cite web|url=http://www.bt.no/lokalt/hordaland/article528185.ece|title=Medier på topp, gartner på bunn|accessdate=2008-04-03|publisher=Bergens Tidende|year=2008|author=Krister Clausen Hoaas, Kjartan T. Melheim|language=Norwegian] Cite web|url=http://www.bt.no/lokalt/hordaland/article251604.ece|title=Mediefag mest populært|accessdate=2008-04-03|publisher=Bergens Tidende|year=2006|author=Pål Andreas Mæland|language=Norwegian]
Alumni
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Herman Friele , politicianCite web|url=http://www.bt.no/lokalt/bergen/article254510.ece|title=- Vemodig, men nødvendig|accessdate=2008-04-03|publisher=Bergens Tidende|year=2006|author=Kjetil Linde Holo, Pål Andreas Mæland, Krister Clausen Hoaas|language=Norwegian]
*Arne Skauge , politician
*Svein Alsaker , politicianstortingetbio|SVAL|name=Svein Alsaker, Accessed 3 April 2008]References
External links
* Website in [http://bhg.hfk.no/templates/SchoolFrontpage.aspx?id=2148 Norwegian] and [http://bhg.hfk.no/templates/Page.aspx?id=2626 English]
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