On the same day that the strike was called off, NTNU had to postpone two written exams. Universities and colleges are now putting together new exam syllabuses in the hope that postponed exams can be held before the summer.
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The uncertainty prevails a few hours after the Unio strike ended in the compulsory wage board. Universities and colleges are working hard to clarify whether it is still possible to get the exam for students who were told that the exam did not take place as planned.
NTNU
At NTNU, two supervised written exams that were supposed to be held today have been postponed. The Department for Education states that written exams for the rest of the exam period, which last this week, can probably proceed as normal.
More uncertainty is linked to oral and practical exams. It depends on how quickly the strikers return to work, whether NTNU manages to implement these as planned. The university needs this day to clarify whether any oral and practical exams must also be postponed.
Students are asked to prepare for the exam as usual, unless they are told otherwise.
The greatest uncertainty is at the two faculties that had the most employees on strike. At the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, 177 employees were on strike. At the Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences 131.
NTNU states that both these faculties and the rest of the university are working hard to return to normal operations as soon as possible. Work is now underway to find out whether some of the postponed exams can still be held this semester.
The University of Southeast Norway
The university has postponed exams for 350 students, including compulsory activity. The university is now working to find new dates for the exam for everyone.
- A further message was sent out early today about postponement, but it was withdrawn after a short time. With the exception of that, we have not changed any decisions, says communications director Reidun Mangrud.
She says that they are in the process of finding new dates for the postponed exams. The aim is for as much as possible to be carried out before the summer, but they need more time to plan this.
Østfold University College
The college states that they are trying to find times when the postponed exams can be carried out. No final exams were postponed, so some may be postponed until over the summer.
There were 5 exams that were postponed on Monday and Tuesday during the strike.
The exam for some students in one subject was also postponed today, Wednesday. But after the strike was called off, those who wanted to were given the opportunity to carry it out if they felt they had prepared well enough for it.
From Thursday, all exams will go ahead as planned.
The University of Western Norway
At Høgskulen på Vestlandet, there are 431 students who have had their oral and/or practical exams postponed due to the strike.
"Students have been informed that they will be notified at 20:00 the day before whether the exam goes as planned," says vice-rector for education Anne-Grethe Naustdal.
This means that there will be no exam today for those affected.
- We are now in the process of getting an overview of the postponed exams and when they can be set up again. We need some time for this. Graduating students are given priority, says Naustdal.
The employees who have been on strike must be given access to IT and access control systems before they can clarify this, and the work will continue beyond the working day, according to the vice-chancellor.
— The exam will basically run as normal from and including Thursday 6 June, but there may be exceptions here. The individual student will receive a message from us by e-mail.
University of Stavanger
The university had to postpone examinations for four subjects while the strike was going on. 44 students were affected.
-- We are working to ensure that these students complete their exams as soon as possible and before the holidays. It appears that other exams will be conducted as normal from tomorrow, Thursday 6.6. The students will be notified directly if they are not to attend, says director of education Bjarte Hoem.
The University of Stavanger is also affected in another way. 69 exams (courses and assignments) will have delayed censorship. This affects between 1000-1350 exam candidates, according to Hoem.
— In principle, the censorship should not be delayed more than the number of strike days, but in some cases a planned holiday could interrupt the censorship work. There will also be cases where bachelor's theses and master's theses have their submission deadline postponed due to a lack of guidance during the strike.
"However, it now appears that nurses and specialist nurses will receive their authorization in time.
The university promises to do its utmost to ensure that the consequences are as minimal as possible for the students. They are now surveying and following up on the cases.
"All students who are affected by delays will receive individual information about this," says Bjarte Hoem.
The Police Academy
The college is now working on setting up new exams for those affected by the strike. The aim is for them to take their exams within the next two weeks. This applies to both the graduating students who had their exam in Operativ03 postponed, and the first-year students who had their Dipokrit exam postponed.
University in Bergen
Some oral exams were postponed during the strike. Now that it is over, it will be possible to set up a new oral exam date before the summer, but this must be clarified for each exam, the communications department states.
At the Faculty of Social Sciences, there were 11 students who did not take the oral exam. A school exam on June 13 may be postponed, but they don't know that yet. If it is, they will try to have the exam completed as soon as possible.
At the Faculty of Humanities, the new date is 18 June for 10 candidates who did not take the exam. Here, some of them will probably also get an opportunity after the summer holidays, since many have left the city by then.
In addition, at the time of writing, it has not been clarified what happens to some students distributed over various subjects who did not take the exam.
Also for some philosophy students there will be a new exam in week 25 or 26. For one subject, everyone must finish before July.
OsloMet
Martin Halvorsen is section manager for admission and assessment at OsloMet.
— The postponed exams will be carried out as soon as possible, and affected students will receive direct information about the time when it is ready. There will be few diplomas and authorizations that will be delayed, and in that case there will be small delays if there are any at all, says Halvorsen to Khrono.
University of Oslo
Only one exam at the University of Oslo was postponed during the strike, and nine students were affected. The University of Oslo says that if the strike had lasted, up to 50 students with oral exams would have been affected.
Faculty director Monica Bakken at the Faculty of Humanities says:
— The humanities faculty is making arrangements for the students who had their exams postponed as a result of the strike, to be able to take them before the summer holidays.
5 June 13.20: The article has been updated with information from the University of Stavanger. 2.25pm: New update on postponed exams at UiO. 6 June 12.25: Updated with status for the University of Bergen and the Police Academy.