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The Danish government wants to increase the total public research funding to DKK 22.2 billion on its budget. But this remains below the 2016 level before the large scale cuts. And the so-called re-prioritization contribution will continue, each year cutting two per cent from the universities’ grants for education.
First, the new Niels Bohr Building should have been completed in 2016, then in 2017, then in 2018. At present, the Danish Building and Property Agency cannot say when the construction will be ready, or how expensive it will be. The University of Copenhagen is considering refusing to take the buildings.
So, for no other reason than the fact that it's good, here is the music video that the tutors from The Faculty of Law have produced as a welcome gift to their new fellow students.
It’s 9:56 am, and the first patient of the day is ready to be operated on. He’s three months old, weighs 190 kilos and is fully anesthetized. The five-person operation team is ready, too. For three of them, the surgery is part of their education.
Anthropology attracts elite students with sky-high grade point averages from their secondary schools. Now the department is to drop all grades from the first year so they can protect the students’ mental health. They need to learn to take chances and learn to make mistakes.
It is the latest huge grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation to UCPH. Researchers are to find new treatments for two types of blood cancer. The development of drugs for these diseases came to a standstill many years ago.
The Department of Arts and Cultural Studies is ready to offer studies in pop culture, and it’s starting at the top of the charts: a course about Queen B herself will look into the issues of gender, race and black feminism.
Eksercerpladsen or ‘military parade ground’ is the name of a new building with 251 youth homes close to the national TV broadcaster’s DR Byen complex. Construction is to be completed in 2018.
At the Faculty of Humanities they are tired of being pilloried as unemployed academics who do not contribute to society. They say their unemployment numbers are not too high – and maybe they have a point. They have found mistakes in the Ministry's numbers.
