The University of Oslo has presented an ambitious and unprecedented action plan for the humanities towards 2030 – the first such plan ever – in response to the Norwegian government’s call in 2017 for higher education institutions to strengthen their work with the humanities….
On 21 January, Svein Stølen, rector of the University of Oslo (UiO), and Frode Helland, dean of the faculty of humanities, presented the strategy in an article in Morgenbladet – the major Norwegian cultural newspaper – entitled “Society needs strong humanities”….
Higher education in the humanities shall provide key competence for future employees. Critical thinking and understanding of context are central in the humanities and a competency very much in demand in the working life, the report said.
There are six main areas in the strategy:
• History, cultural heritage and aesthetics
• Knowledge and education
• Language and cultural competence
• Sustainable development and climate change
• Technology as cultural form and a way of life
• Democratic development.
h/t Rob Townsend (@rbthisted)
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