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Independent of management
A meeting in the staff-management co-ordinating body HSU has not done anything to allay concerns about the upcoming administration reform among staff representatives. Staff at the University of Copenhagen feel ignored and patronized, and want more answers from management.
Management will present further details prior to the Board meeting on the reform of the University of Copenhagen administration. But staff representatives want a plan for the allocation of tasks: This will not be ready until after the Board has approved the overall reform.
The first draft for the future administration at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) is in consultation. We asked Director Søren Munk Skydsgaard where exactly the employees' influence can be seen in the proposal.
If you have your baby with you at the Faculty of Social Sciences, you have to change its diapers on the floor. Two students do not understand why the facilities for new parents at the University of Copenhagen are so bad.
A political majority has decided that Danish universities should cut admissions by one tenth from 2025. Under the agreement, the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) is to reduce its bachelor intake by 11.7 per cent.
He cleared his office over the weekend. Monday he announced his resignation. Peter C. Kjærgaard has resigned after massive criticism of his management style.
The future is now in the balance for technical and administrative staff with the upcoming reform to University of Copenhagen (UCPH) administration. A total of DKK 300 million is to be cut from the budget. 380 full-time equivalent staff positions are to be abolished. Many employees are to be placed in new units.
Administration reform will mean a goodbye to 380 technical and administrative staff. The first half will be laid off in the fall of 2024. The remaining 190 staff, in terms of full-time staff equivalents, will be laid off towards the end of 2027.
A green circular building on North Campus has become a kind of ‘Dragon’s Den’ for budding new businesses.
