Nordiska korrespondensinstitutet

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Nordiska korrespondensinstitutet (often abbreviated as NKI-skolan ; German  Nordic Correspondence Institute ) was one of the largest Swedish schools for distance learning .

The educational institution was established in Malmö in 1922 when two schools founded in 1910, the Noréns korrespondensinstitut and the Osby korrespondensinstitut , merged. First, it offered distance learning for specific business management of topics, but gradually supplemented time - and drawing courses and training in the technical area the offer. In 1936 the head office of the institute was moved to Stockholm .

From 1937 it was possible to take the Abitur at the NKI-skolan via distance learning. In the first few years between 75 and 250 schoolchildren prepared for university studies in this way every year. In the NKI Realschulen , which emerged from 1941, 12 to 16 hours a week of direct oral instruction alternated with distance learning on the pupils' own responsibility. As early as 1940 it was possible to complete an engineering degree with the help of the NKI materials . At peak times, up to 150,000 students per year took advantage of the courses on offer, which were divided into 1,500 categories.

Between 1937 and 1952, the NKI-skolan published a one-volume universal lexicon in eleven editions , which enjoyed great popularity in Sweden. A total of 200,000 copies of the work were printed.

In 1965 the Nordiska korrespondensinstitutet was taken over by the Hermods company.

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