Another sign of the bad times in the Norwegian IT industry: The leadership of NITH (the Norwegian Information Technological College) have decided to close down the campus at Bekkestua outside Oslo, and move everything to the Oslo campus from the 1st of July 2003. They will still keep the Stavanger and Bergen campuses. This information is from an article (in Norwegian) on the student site Diplom.no.
The decision was based the low recruitment for IT studies in general this year, the low number of applicants for the Bekkestua campus, and the trend that most new students seem to prefer the more central Oslo campus. After studying at Bekkestua for three years, this is somewhat sad for me, and I’m sure for other previous students who have spent many years there…