The autumn semester at the country’s higher education institutions starts on Monday. Almost 110,000 have been offered a place to study at one of the country’s universities and colleges. – I am very excited. It makes my stomach tingle a little, says May Johnsen. Together with Pernille Tollefsen, she has found a place on the lawn outside NTNU in Trondheim on Monday. Both are about to start a year’s study in pedagogy, and have never been students before. – I think it will be very exciting. It’s fun to be here, see the people and find out who to get to know. – A new chapter in life Kaja Ingdal Hovdenak is head of the Norwegian Student Organization (NSO). She thinks there are many who are now excited. – The start of studies is probably primarily an exciting time for the many thousands who start their studies today. At the same time, she points out that it is not only easy to enter the new life as a student. – Study time is often described as the best time in life. – I remember that I felt a lot of expectations and that I felt that I had to toughen up in order for it to live up to expectations. Leader of the Norwegian Student Organization, Kaia Ingdal Hovdenak, thinks many people are excited before the start of their studies today. Photo: Skjalg Bøhmer Vold / Skjalg Bøhmer Vold Even if many people now have to step outside their comfort zone, she still thinks it will go well for most of them. – Study time is a time where you can challenge yourself by getting to know many new people, perhaps moving to a new city and not least learning a lot of new things. – It’s a new chapter in life that starts for many today, so you just have to enjoy it. Ready for sponsorship period The fresh students at NTNU have no doubt that there are high expectations associated with starting as a student. – I know it can go either way. But it looks promising, says Johnsen. She believes that the next period will be both exciting and fun, but do not hide the fact that becoming students for the first time comes with responsibilities. – You have to have some discipline, she says. – It will be good to get a little out into adult life. But both still live at home and take care of mother and father, so in that sense it’s going well, adds Johnsen. Kasper Kvale Sæterheim and Isak Anda both come from Oslo and have moved to Trondheim to study. Photo: Henning Levold / news Kasper Kvale Sæterheim believes that being a student will go well, but he is also prepared to stumble a bit at the start. – I think it will be fine. You’ll have to fail a couple of subjects and burn some food, so you’ll figure it out eventually. The fresh student from Oslo has moved to Trondheim to start the cybernetics and robotics study. – I don’t quite know what cybernetics is yet, he laughs. Hoping for a pleasant year Further north, Yngve Leander Eide Iversen is ready to start biotechnology at the University of Tromsø. – It will be exciting. I have come from far south. So I thought I should come up here to see what it’s like in the north. – What expectations do you have for the course you are about to start? – I am not the one who has the most expectations, but I hope that we will have a pleasant year and meet new comrades. Yngve Leander Eide Iversen is a recent student at UiT. Photo: Simen Wingstad / news Nora Selvig and Tora Tettmo are ready to welcome the first-year students who come here. – I think we have to be pleasant and decent and welcome them with open arms, so that they feel safe, says Selvig. – Last year, I remember that I was quite nervous myself. That’s probably what goes through their heads, yes. And then there are a lot of people here, says Tettmo. Start of studies at the University of Tromsø. Photo: Simen Wingstad / news Fewer student teachers Of the almost 110,000 fresh students who were offered a study place in this year’s admissions, almost 20 per cent will start a study in economic-administrative subjects. The second largest is health with 18.4 per cent of the new students. However, the number of applications for teacher education has fallen in recent years. This year, there are 6.8 per cent fewer people who have received a study place at a teacher training course. The decline is a fact, even if the government is open to the possibility of waiving the grade requirement in Norwegian and mathematics. – We need teachers. In many municipalities there is a problem with recruiting teachers. So now we are taking action to get more teachers with teacher training into Norwegian schools, said the Minister of Research and Higher Education, Oddmund Hoel, about the initiative in June. The opening ceremony at the University of Bergen. Photo: Oskar Rennedal / news Published 12.08.2024, at 14.43 Updated 12.08.2024, at 15.46
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