– Too few who bet
Student Council, composed of students from NHH, NTNU and the University came up with a solution in the form of various measures, all summarized in a report which they presented at the symposium last week.
– An important goal is to facilitate greater creating bright, says Kristian Horn Hellenes.
– Located we lagging ?
– We have at least the potential to be very much better. When you have a welfare system that we have – a safety net – it provides good conditions for trial and error, but there are too few who bet. Although we have a good, does not mean that we should not continue to innovate and improve. We believe that it must be better to ensure that our generation, called a very uncritical generation that asks questions, can be part of creating something that will drag Norway into the future.
– What do you think should be made more concrete?
– We have set up three main initiatives that we believe may help to increase creativity and curiosity and daring bet on it innovative. The important thing is to strive for the attitude of being assertive is valued and accepted. We must practice it from a very young age. Therefore we encourage both businesses, politicians and institutions to implement measures that allow for that fresh uncut heads will drop to and be heard.
This mean students have done that Norwegian industry to produce more success stories in the future:
1. More innovation in education:
Action: Introduce mandatory innovasjonsuke for all pupils in primary and further up to college and university level. Keeping courses to stimulate innovation thinking.
Because: Norwegian education does not stimulate enough innovation. Creativity declines through schooling, therefore important to train children and youth in seeing various issues from different perspectives, while they still have a fresh uncut head and is at its most creative.
2. Work Experience for students:
Action: Introduce mandatory work experience in companies for students from secondary schools and colleges and universities.
Because: Insight into how the workplace is giving students a more realistic picture of what one goes to after graduation. Make students more competent and clever in the way they think about when they go out in the workplace.
How: Businesses must be better to actively engage in what goes on in colleges and universities. Here is a lot of innovation. Students must be better to invite labor for their projects. Create new platforms so that one can easily meet each other.
Experience from abroad: In Germany they have a month’s work placement. Has proved beneficial in terms of raising awareness youth in what employment require and what they want as a future profession. In Denmark, they are good at accepting that students can have relevant jobs while studying. In Norway, students work often in clothing or kiosk, jobs that do not have relevance for education.
3. Capital to startups:
Action: Provide more and smarter capital to start up businesses. Get today’s investors to invest in tomorrow’s business.
Because: Norway need to have an environment that fosters acceptance of trial and error. Fear of failure inhibits entrepreneurs trying to create something. Minimizing the risk of starting something new that may prove to be a success story. Norwegian businesses need to produce more success stories.
How: Adding conditions so that it becomes more favorable to bet on starts-ups. Today beneficial to invest in property, but can turn it to make it attractive to invest in start-up businesses instead. Therefore introduce deductibility for companies that help startup businesses pro bono *. One measure that will increase interest established firms in assisting the fledgling actors with important and essential skills. ( Source: Student Council at NHH )
Torbjørn Røe Isaksen: National tests does not inhibit creativity
– Are we so concerned national tests and other testing of pupils, that creativity slips along the way?
– There is no reason to believe that trying itself leads to less creativity, and I do not think eight compulsory national tests spread out over the 13-year basic education has such an effect. I think on the contrary there is a contradiction between subjects and skills and creativity. Being able subjects well increases rather the ability to be creative, says Minister Torbjørn Røe Isaksen.
– From several quarters calls for better facilitation of work experience during school / study time. How can better facilitate this?
– I agree that the school and higher education should be closely at the workplace. Especially in the vocational subjects we want to give students more practice earlier than today. In higher education, a collaboration brings benefits to both parties. It allows programs are more updated, practical, and provides business and employment in the region skilled labor and research results. In practice it can be done through research and student assignments that are linked to corporate or government. A good example is how Aalesund University College and businesses make each other better, and such we want more of, say Røe Isaksen.
(* Glossary: pro bono refers to work performed voluntary and unpaid as a service to public community).
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