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Directorate of Education (Iceland)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ7753157 ↗
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Directorate of Education (Icelandic: Menntamálastofnun) is an Icelandic governmental institution that provides educational material to students of primary and upper secondary schools in Iceland, supervises the educational system, and conducts standardized testing. It was formed in 2015 (2015) when it took over the responsibilities of the National Centre for Educational Materials (Námsgagnastofnun) and the Educational Testing Institute (Námsmatsstofnun).

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This entry incorporates text from “Directorate of Education (Iceland)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.