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17.1.2005
No majority for unified management Fremskrittspartiet (The Progress Party) is supporting the idea that public universities and university colleges should be able to choose a management model themselves. With that the government will not get a majority for its proposal on mandatory unified management at the universities. By Njord V. Svendsen and Monika Voit Arne Sortevik, Fremskrittspartiet’s spokesman on educational policy and member of the Standing Committee on Education, Research and Church Affairs of the Storting, wants that public universities and university colleges could choose their own management model. It means that the government does not get majority support for its proposal on mandatory unified management for the universities when the issue will be discussed by the Storting in February. The proposal for a new act on university colleges and universities says that the Ministry would appoint an external chair for the Board of Directors and that the Rector will become both professional and administrative manager. The University of Bergen has been against such a solution and wants the rector to be elected and not appointed. “I’m happy that Fremskrittspartiet steps forward with such a clear standpoint. It means that the way is now paved for us to be able to work in accordance with the solutions supported by the Board of Directors at UoB,” says Deputy Rector Rune Nilsen to På Høyden. “Fremskrittspartiet wants to see the educational sector characterised by self-governed units. To create a mandatory management model by law is therefore a wrong path to choose,” says Sortevik in a press release. Sortevik says that he will present a proposal that there must be a qualified majority backing the shift of the management model. “If one wants to shift from divided to unified management or vice versa, it is important that it is supported. A simple majority would therefore be too little. If we want the universities to have more self-government, it is wrong to create a single management model by law. It is about each educational institution’s wish to specialise and create its own profile. There is no reason to refuse them,” says Sortevik. |
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