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In Kyiv, there are fewer and fewer student faces at online lectures. The question is: How do you help young Ukrainians who have sought refuge abroad, without harming Ukraine's future?
The researchers who have not fled the war are publishing less — and worse — research. The University Post visited a faculty in Kyiv that has a lecture hall in a bomb shelter, a gallery on a wall showing the students who are at war, and a dean who tries to keep track of all the colleagues who have left.
Psychology professor Vibeke Koushede takes over as dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences from Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen, who said his departure was due to disagreements with the rector.
A large group of students responsible for the start of studies in 2023 at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics (NorS) were suddenly ignored by management. Now they have got their apology. »They were justified in most of their criticism,« says the administration manager.
Danish halt to sixth year of student grant will affect students from homes with low incomes and students who switch study programmes, says think tank Rockwool Foundation.
Pia Quist and Jesper Grodal are fighting to retain their seats as academic representatives on the Board of the University: We have fought hard to show that management cannot ignore the employees. We have won several victories, but our work is far from finished, they say.
A debate has been set off about instructors' use of language after a group of University of Copenhagen students walked out of a lecture in protest. But we should also discuss the display of violent images, according to an associate professor whose specialty is the visual documentation of violence.
Rector remains the highest-paid employee at the University of Copenhagen. This is what he, and the rest of senior management, earn a year.
Salaries ranged between DKK 121,919 (EUR 16,347 ) and DKK 19,972 (EUR 2,678) a month at the University of Copenhagen in 2023. Here is the full list of job functions and their aggregated pay.
Tarek Hussein has given himself a cooling-off period after years of public debate. He is now an NGO director, and speaks here about a career that is going in »a billion« directions.