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12 percent of the technical-administrative staff covered by the University of Copenhagen’s administrative reform report sickness absence due to work pressure and stress. University Director Søren Munk Skydsgaard calls the figure »too high« and links it to new managers, new tasks, and an administration where not everything has yet fallen into place.
Researchers call for clearer direction, greater autonomy, and a break with detailed political control of universities
According to the organisers of a language policy hearing, Danish is being sidelined at university despite an official parallel language policy. But the rector does not share their concerns.
The Liberal Party wants to double the number of young conscripts to 13,000 by 2035. But according to a University of Copenhagen researcher, the impact depends entirely on what the soldiers will be used for — and whether the armed forces can handle them.
More than half of Danish drinking water wells contain pesticide residues. Two University of Copenhagen researchers explain what we know about the risks, what Danish politicians are talking about — and what they believe is absent from the debate.
After a summit called by the Minister for Higher Education and Science on academic freedom, a warning from humanities dean Kirsten Busch Nielsen: In a polarised public debate researchers are avoiding sensitive topics.
The University of Copenhagen wants to balance the property budget and reduce its climate footprint. The Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management has to move: But where?
After an unusually high number of whale strandings since the turn of the year, experts from the Natural History Museum of Denmark have secured the lower jaws and other bones from the enormous animals. They will now be cleaned and catalogued so they can be used for research and become a part of the scientific collection.
Graduate unemployment at UCPH is dropping, according to the latest figures, garnering high praise from the Danish Chamber of Commerce. It notes that the university’s location in the capital is an advantage. Not for Medicine, however, which goes against an otherwise positive trend.
The University of Greenland in Nuuk has set up a bachelor’s degree in biology that has hunting, sled dogs, and local narratives as its organising principle.
