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OsloMet’s Rector Curt Rice wants to shake up academia interview

OsloMet’s Rector Curt Rice wants to shake up academia

Oslo has a new university, the third largest in Norway. OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University, will educate the future labour force across a range of professions. If Rector gets his way, gender equality will permeate everything. Digitalisation will be a top priority and programmes will be developed at the intersection of research, teaching and practice.
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Curt Rice speaking

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Map employment

Icelandic companies want to introduce equal pay standard ahead of time nyhet
| Gender equality Iceland

Icelandic companies want to introduce equal pay standard ahead of time

Icelandic companies are hard at work preparing to meet demands introduced in equal pay legislation presented at the start of the year. Several of them want to adapt the equal pay standard before the deadline. But the amount of work is greater than expected, and the first ones out must start from scratch.
Project Mirjam tackles prejudices about and in the Swedish labour market tema
| April 2018

Project Mirjam tackles prejudices about and in the Swedish labour market

Project Mirjam targets women with low levels of education who have been granted asylum or residency in Sweden. It is considerably harder for them to find work compared to men in a similar situation, but guidance focused on work and gender equality produces results.
Nordic focus on getting more newly arrived women into work tema
| April 2018

Nordic focus on getting more newly arrived women into work

To succeed in getting more newly arrived women into work, the Nordic countries need more employment measures, an increased focus on childcare and documented results from measures, according to a new study.
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Finland HeTy

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Finland HeTy 2

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Marianne Thyssen

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Nordic politicians on their guard as the EU’s new labour authority takes shape

The European Commission is moving at pace to make the European Pillar of Social Rights a reality. In March it presented what it called a ‘Social Fairness Package’, where it proposed that the EU should establish a European labour authority to make sure EU rules on issues including the posting of workers and the coordination of social security schemes are being followed.
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