– I don’t shop here very often. That’s according to Yael Tsubarah, who is in her first year of social work at Høgskolen i Innlandet. news meets her outside the canteen at the university. She does not go into the canteen, as she is not going to buy anything anyway. Yael thinks the prices are too high. A small Red Bull there costs NOK 35, while a Red Bull of the same size at Kiwi costs NOK 20. – I think it’s a shame that they set such high prices here. It’s too expensive, says Yael. 15 KRON DIFFERENCE: The ticket shows the price difference for energy drinks from SINN Canteen and a Kiwi Shop. The price from the Kiwi store is around NOK 20. The original price is NOK 19.60. (incl. deposit) Graphics: Aleksandr Nedbaev NOK 2,000 for canteen food – We students are categorized as poorer in society, but the prices are higher here. Yael wishes the prices in the canteen were the same as in the shop. – I actually think so, because there are students here. We have an income of 9,000 a month, and you don’t leave the canteen without spending a hundred. If you shop five days a week, it will be NOK 2,000 a month. It doesn’t go up. Do you think the prices in the student canteen are too expensive? Yes absolutely! Maybe a little… No, I don’t think so Show result Yann Belov is also a student at Høgskolen i Innlandet. He shops in the canteen almost every day. – Personally, I can currently afford to shop here, but on a normal student budget you can’t. That’s expensive. A NORM: – Expensive canteen prices are very common in Norway. I think it has just become a norm – even for student canteens, says Yann Belov. Photo: Aleksandr Nedbaev / news Yann reacts to the canteen prices at the Stortinget being cheaper than the students’ canteen. – Ideally, the prices would be lower. I have been in the canteen at the Storting. It’s cheaper there, he says. BIG DIFFERENCE: The ticket shows the price difference for the same items in SINN Canteen and in a Kiwi shop. The prices are rounded up to the nearest whole number. Too much for the student wallet news has spoken to student leaders from several colleges and universities around the country. Joakim Ramsland is deputy head of the student organization at the University of Stavanger. Recently, the prices in their canteen have also increased, as have the prices of many other things in society. He believes it will become more and more difficult to live only on student grants and loans. Ida Steinsland, on the other hand, says that the student association in Western Norway has taken measures such as increasing the price for external and staff members, so that the price increase will not affect students. Are counted as kiosk goods. The association is responsible for the prices in the various student canteens. Erik Ulateig is managing director of the Student Association in the Interior. In the canteen for the students at Lillehammer, a rice lunch costs NOK 23. At Kiwi it costs NOK 11.70. In other words, the price will be approximately twice as high for the students. Ulateig says the reason for this is that some of the products fall under the “kiosk goods” category. – We have a policy where we have said that kiosk goods should be slightly below the prices of ordinary kiosks. When it comes to other food products, we must be competitive with other catering establishments, he says. NON-PROFIT: The prices are calculated by the canteen manager at the school. – When we price the goods, we do so on the basis that we will run a so-called non-profit, i.e. in balance, but a little in the plus, so we can run development work, says Erik Ulateig. Photo: Lars Erik Skrefsrud / news Ulateig says that they have received some complaints from the students that the canteen prices are too high. He himself does not think that the canteen at the college has too high prices. – I don’t really want to say that. We believe we have a good and varied offer for students.
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