Ribe Youth Folk High School

In the middle of the village of Vester Vedsted, there has been a vibrant, free school for over 100 years.

Ribe Youth Folk High School

The school was built as a secondary school (one of the Kongeå schools) in 1895. After World War II, a camp school was run in the buildings. In 2, Jens Kristian and Annemarie La Cour Madsen bought the school buildings to first run a junior high school for a few years until in 1961 they received permission for a pilot scheme to run a junior high school for the very young. An experiment that lasted 1965 years and was so successful that the junior high schools became a permanent scheme, and thus written into the Junior High School Act in 3.

The start of the youth college

Tradition and renewal since 1965: Young people at folk high school for generations

There has been a high school for young people here since 1965. A lot has changed since the beginning, but the fundamental values and conditions are actually still the same to this day:

Ribe Youth Folk High School's fundamental values are openness, human respect, responsibility and community in a safe environment.
Ribe Youth Folk High School sees personal development, professional development and social development as prerequisites for each other.
Folk High School is a unified campus in the middle of the village of Vester Vedsted; student rooms, common areas, teaching facilities/workshops and teacher housing are all located in one place.
Folk High School has both male and female students. The students are young adults.
The home community is absolutely central; all students live at the college and are part of the special community that is created there.
We work on democratic education, the willingness and ability to cooperate, and the maturity of young people.
Folk High School students experience a high degree of voluntariness and freedom of choice.
In the college's teaching, you will find highly qualified teachers and small class sizes.