Following an article in the last edition of Universitas, a report on sources of radioactivity at the University of Oslo has concluded that the levels of radioactivity at the University are no threat to health. However, the report and the overview over where the various sources of radioactivity are to be found, is being kept from the public. Section Head at the Information Division Helge Kjøllesdal, explains that the list is exempt from public disclosure due to security concerns. Erik Martiniussen of the environmental organization Bellona is critical. – Withholding information provides no security against theft, he says. – Securing the sources, on the other hand, does.

Skewed Grades

Lack of co–operation between Norwegian institutions of higher education has led to students being graded unequally across the country. Students of Psychology at the University of Oslo are frustrated because the University of Oslo has adopted the Gaussian distribution of grades, whereas other Universities are lagging behind. As a result, attaining good grades at the University of Oslo is more difficult than at other Norwegian universities. The leader at the Institute of Psychology, Fanny Duckert, says that the University should have provided guidelines for grades at an earlier point. Rector Arild Underdal admits that the University sent out the guidelines for the new grades as late as November 2003, immediately prior to the examinations and subsequent marking.