As a Norwegian person doing research, I am very happy that they are doing this, especially after the recent years’ insane missteps. Massacring scientific funding was one disgrace. Hopefully it makes us more attractive.

Tuition for non-EU citizens is another disgrace, and only got introduced because Norway is exceptionally bad at tapping into that market of recently graduated Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD holders that we are educating. We need to have a better pipeline from uni-industry in general for Norwegians too, but for foreigner students who take a whole degree here only to be pushed away after we’ve already invested in them is so backwards. Please fix!

Not OP but I’d wager he will say that you shouldn’t treat them like kids, that’s already looking down on them. Just because they got duped repeatedly doesn’t mean we shouldn’t lose our ability to empathize. They just started their introspective, assist it as much as you can and you can make them go from conservative to progressive even. The movement needs all the pebbles it can get.