Foreign researchers in Norway will have to learn language

Oslo wants to prevent English from becoming leading language on campus, despite strong pushback

The Norwegian government has said it will oblige all doctoral and postdoctoral fellows in Norway who do not speak Norwegian to take language classes.

“We are taking necessary measures to preserve Norwegian as a professional language and to prevent English from becoming the main language in Norwegian higher education,” the research and higher education minister Oddmund Hoel said on 26 June.