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to create a green future believes the confederation of Norwegian enterprise, it must be cut in the number of study programmes at universities and colleges. There must be fewer students in the social sciences and the humanities.

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Published: 03.01.2017 — 05:26 Updated: 03.01.2017 — 05:38

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– There is a clear case of system failure when we see that the large growth in education has happened in the social sciences and the humanities. For comparison, the capacity in science and engineering in the little extended, says NHO director Kristin Skogen Lund to the newspaper Aftenposten at the forefront of the confederation of Norwegian enterprise annual conference on Thursday this week.

A note is made to the conference, has been given the title of Made in Norway – on the job for a green future. One of the conclusions which is that there is a “perverse competition for students”.

– Offers cheap studies

By the side of the fewer study programmes and fewer students in the social sciences and the humanities, believes the confederation of Norwegian enterprise more students need to be tracked into science and technology. Over 900 different masterprogrammer is way too much, believes the Confederation of Norwegian enterprise.

– Higher education is not governed by relevance and quality. Colleges and universities get paid per credits. When it pays to just offer a lot of different studies that are cheap to operate, ” says Lund.

– Jojo-tendencies

the Norwegian student organization (NSO) agree that there is an inequality in the degree offerings that should be smoothed.

– in Order to arm us with the best possible to the economic changes and restructuring, we need to have a high level of expertise within several fields, says NSO-director Marianne Andenæs. At the same time warns her against calling only for technical and realfaglig expertise.

– Then we may end up in the same situation as economics and administration, now sits in. It is only to go a couple of years back, so cried both The reports and the political Norway after several with expertise in finance and administration. We create unnecessary “jojo-tendencies”, says Andenæs.