Interviewed in Khrono news story on state of higher education in Norway

I am interviewed in the Khrono news story "Antall faglige ansatte vokser raskere enn antall studenter" (The number of scientific staff grows faster than the number of students) which was published today, along with Minister of Research and Higher Education, Oddmund Hoel, and Director of the Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills (HK-dir), Sveinung Skule, by journalists Eva Tønnessen and Hege Larsen. The topic of the news story is a new release of an annual report on the state of higher education in Norway.

Academic day at faculty of social sciences co-chaired and closed

Today I co-chaired the third annual "fagdag" (academic day) at University of Stavanger´s Faculty of social sciences, along with fellow Vice-Dean Turid Borgen. The event attracted some 80 participants and featured a talk by Minister of Research and Higher Education Iselin Nybø (Venstre - the social liberals), the next UiS rector, Klaus Mohn, and Stein Erik Lid (NOKUT), in addition to several presentations by scholars and two students. I was also responsible for the closing session, involving a brief talk.