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Progress a party which constantly assures the voters that they appreciate the personal freedom high. But now they go in for a policy which is sovjetaktig authoritarian, which will restrict the freedom dramatically for the Norwegian students and educational institutions. The party has, together with the Labour party and the centre party entered to require that the universities and university colleges should get paid for students who get job after education.

This requirement involves an extreme instrumentalization of Norwegian higher education that can have major negative consequences, at the same time as it is unlikely that it will achieve that more students come in the job. It is, in other words one of the worst proposals that have been put forward in the Norwegian policy for a long time.

For the first , it is a requirement that will remedy a crisis that is not real. It is true that it needed more teachers and nurses in Norway. But, as the principal Svein Stølen, University of Oslo writes in his blog, showing their arbeidsgiverundersøkelser that almost all the employers are satisfied with the candidates the university is sending out into the workforce, and that almost no one is unhappy. He calls the new proposal “shocking”.

secondly no one can say for sure what kind of expertise it is going to be use for about ten, twenty, or thirty years. Those who began to study journalism around the turn of the millennium, to go into a self-confident mediebransje, ended up struggling to get a job in a media economy that the internet had made unrecognizable. The many people who have studied for fill oljebransjens cravings for labour will have to readjust itself after the forthcoming green shift. To add up higher education after what today’s employers need now is absurdly short-term.

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thirdly will this proposal do that it will be less money into the subjects where the students are not being trained to any particular professional title, and where many end up creating their own workplace. The humanities and the social sciences will be highly susceptible with this approach, and if such subjects shrinks or disappears, will the Norwegian students get a greatly reduced offering of fields of study.

fourthly , the proposal does, in reality, a removal of the academic freedom. The universities shall be subject to the politicians and the business sector. Liberal democracy is based on the fact that important social institutions, such as academia and the press, is independent of the maktapparatet and is free to be investigative and critical in the direction they want.

wanting To take from them this freedom represents a step towards a sovjetstat. The step we must take.

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