Viby Gymnasium (formerly Viby Amtsgymnasium and Viby Gymnasium og HF) is a school of

secondary education Secondary education or post-primary education covers two phases on the International Standard Classification of Education scale. Level 2 or lower secondary education (less commonly junior secondary education) is considered the second and final pha ...

in the neighborhood Viby J in

Aarhus Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and approximately northwest ...

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. The school offers the 2 year

Higher Preparatory Examination (HF) The Higher Preparatory Examination (in Danish: ''Højere Forberedelseseksamen'' or ''HF'') is a 2-year general upper secondary programme building on to the 10th form of the Folkeskole and leading to the higher preparatory examination (the HF-e ...

programme, the 3 year Matriculation examination (STX) programme and a vocational programme (EUX). Viby Gymnasium resulted from the planning stages of the

1970 Danish Municipal Reform The 1970 Danish Municipal Reform was an extensive administrative reform in Denmark which on 1 April 1970 reduced the number of Danish municipalities from 1,098 to 277 and the number of counties from 25 to 14. The reform also abolished the last le ...

. Aarhus Municipality was largely fully settled at the time but it was expected that it would be merged with surrounding municipalities so in anticipation a number of municipal government cooperated to initiate and fund the new Gymnasium. The first students started in borrowed rooms in an elementary school before construction of the buildings were completed so the school predates the buildings by 3 years. In 1992 Aarhus County decided the school should only offer the

programme but the STX programme was reinstated in 1996. The school was named Viby Amtsgymnasium (

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...

: Viby County Gymnasium) until the municipal reform of 2007 disbanded the Danish counties and it changed name to Viby Gymnasium og HF in reference to the two main study programmes offered. In 2011 the name was changed again to simply Viby Gymnasium.

Programmes

The Matriculation examination (STX) programme is divided into four programmes;

natural sciences Natural science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation. Mechanisms such as peer review and repeatab ...

social sciences Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of soci ...

linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

and

music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect ...

each with a range of elective choices. In 2006, the school started offering

Chinese Chinese can refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity **''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation ** List of ethnic groups in China, people of va ...

for the first time along the common languages typically seen in Danish high schools such as

German German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) **Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Ger ...

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og Spanish. Viby Gymnasium and

VUC Aarhus VUC Aarhus (short for ''Voksen Uddannelses Center Aarhus'') is a school of secondary education in Aarhus, Denmark. The school offers the 2 year Higher Preparatory Examination (HF) programme and supplementary courses (GSK) to the Matriculation ex ...

are currently the only secondary educational institutions in Aarhus, offering Chinese. In Denmark, Chinese is taught at a total of 29 secondary educational institutions altogether.

Notable alumni

Erik Kuld Jensen Erik Kuld Jensen (10 June 1925 – 14 April 2004) was a Danish footballer. He was also part of Denmark's squad for the football tournament at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and ...

* Henriette Kjær *

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References

External links

Viby Gymnasium Website
{{Coord, 56.64737, 10.91036, region:DK_type:landmark, display=title Gymnasiums in Aarhus Educational institutions established in 1965 1965 establishments in Denmark