Three candidates will compete to take over the position as representative for temporary academic staff on the University Board after Emma Joanna Lengle. All three are PhD candidates at the Faculty of Educational Sciences.
When researchers need broken laboratory flasks to be fixed, or require custom-made glass equipment, they turn to Elijah Aller. Two years ago the glassblower of the University of Oslo was approached by a famous artist.
The number of applicants to The International Summer School at the University of Oslo (UiO) this year is five times higher than last year. “It’s fantastic,” says senior executive officer Amanda Felicia Celia Edenholm.
If the partner of an international employee does not get a job, the University of Oslo risks losing the employee and losing several millions Norwegian kroner. That is why UiO is now building up an organized partner support.
The students will receive individual attention, they can choose whether to study full time or part time, and they are free to decide when to watch lectures and complete assignments. In the autumn of 2026, The University of Oslo launches “Ibsen Studies Online”.
On the 12th of February Vice-Rector Mathilde Skoie and UiO's corporate sports club UiO-BIL invite the employees to participate on a cross-country ski outing. If that doesn’t appeal, tobogganing or a guided walk are also among the activities on UiO’s winter activity day.
In Norway the share of temporary employees in higher education was 8.8 percent in 2025. In the US, this applies to more than 70 percent of faculty, according to associate professor Deepa Das Acevedo, author of the book The War on Tenure.
The University of Chicago has so far avoided confrontation with the Trump-administration. Law professor Tom Ginsburg, leader of the UC Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression, does not know why.
– I represent the beneficiary of a lot of the work that has gone into creating more diverse and inclusive campuses, says Paulette Granberry Russell. She is the head of an organization that has taken a leading role in the fight against Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting diversity- and inclusion-programs in federal government and institutions.
Jinan Behnan was disheartened after losing two lawsuits against Oslo University Hospital, but then new opportunities opened up.
Starting December 1st, all employees and students will have to pay for parking at UiO. You might pay for a day or for a whole month, but what is wise to do is another question
What can American academics and higher education institutions do to resist attacks on academic freedom? This was a key theme during the Scholars at Risk 25th-anniversary conference focused on the USA
