Oslo objects to holidays masquerading as study abroad

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Several Norwegian higher education institutions have been offering study abroad in exotic places in collaboration with companies, partly financed by the Norwegian government loan board but also by comparatively high fees paid by students.
The University of Oslo said in a press release that it had written to the Ministry of Education a year ago to ask if this practice was against government policy or violated university law, which does not allow tuition fees.
The ministry responded that it could not see the study-abroad activities as violating law – but Ole Petter Ottersen, rector of the University of Oslo, was not satisfied.
“We think that there are ambiguities in the regulations, and we need further clarification,” Ottersen told University World News.