Naked students stop tuition fees in Norway
Students in Norway wanted to stop the government’s plan to introduce tuition fees for international Students. Some of them felt so strongly about this, that they took of all their clothes to reach that goal. And with success.
The government in Oslo wanted students from outside the EU and the European Economic Area (EEA) to pay fees to study at Norwegian universities and colleges. It is a plan that has been brought up year after year. The Norwegian student union NSO is firmly against this, supported by the European Student’s Union (ESU).
Norway is one of the few countries that don’t charge any tuition fee. International students, even from outside Europe, also get free education. The student population wanted to keep it that way, and succeeded. The ESU congratulated them on its website: “Norway has been one of the few countries that has upheld the commitment countries have made within the Bologna Process, that higher education is a public good and a public responsibility. NSO has done great work in reversing a proposal that would break this commitment and damage access and quality of higher education in Norway.”
What might have helped, is the commitment a group of students from Sogn og Fjordane University College showed. Photos show them butt-naked in the mountains, in the middle of November.
Photo by Bjørner Often Sveen
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