Norway will spend over 300 million USD to build a research station in Antarctica The government is considering spending over 300 million USD on a new research station in Antarctica. The old Troll station is 32 years old and will be demolished.
University rector says Viking ships may collapse in 5 or 50 years if new museum is delayed The future is still uncertain for Norway’s Viking ships after budget agreement.
Researchers have started a petition to save the Norwegian Viking ships “This is a desperate cry to the government,” says one of the archaeologists behind the petition.
New report: Budget cuts put 1200 year old Viking ships at risk of being destroyed Cutting costs means risking Norway’s greatest cultural heritage and largest tourist attraction. “We cannot allow this,” says Svein Stølen, rector at the University of Oslo.
The Viking Ships can’t wait OPINION: Each day that construction is delayed, valuable time in the race to preserve this cultural heritage is wasted. The government should not mess about at this point - it should guarantee steady progress of the project.
The planned new Viking Age Museum in Oslo told to cut a billion NOK The Norwegian Minister of Research, Ola Borten Moe from the Centre Party, has delivered a clear message: The cost of building a new Viking Age museum in Oslo must be reduced by a billion NOK.
Norwegian Nobel prize winners shocked by cuts in government research spending “We’ve been doing this for 30 years now, and we’ve never seen cuts as dramatic as these,” say Nobel prize winners Edvard and May-Britt Moser.
Minister forces resignation of the board of the Research Council of Norway. “This is about whether ten-year-olds with cancer diagnoses should live or die” says rector “What do you really want from your universities?” asks Curt Rice.
Norway: Record levels of foreign citizens among new PhDs A total of 1,601 new PhDs were completed at Norwegian universities and university colleges last year. Almost 700 of them were foreign citizens, according to figures from Statistics Norway.
Huge increase in international students doing their PhD in Norway 40 per cent of the people who get doctorates in Norway are foreign citizens. Half of them leave when they are done. Is Norway investing in lost knowledge?
Climate change is a bigger field of research in Norway than in any other country Even so, Norwegian researchers only account for two per cent of the world’s total research on climate change. This two per cent however has had a great impact on further research, according to a new report.
Who teaches scholars how to write? It’s assumed that academic researchers know how to write. The reality is different, but no one wants to talk about it.