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University of Copenhagen spent DKK 57.6 million on consultants

Two experts wonder whether the University of Copenhagen has shown sufficient diligence when almost DKK 60 million has been spent on consultants prior to the administration reform. University director defends the big numbers.

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Working environment

Board approves disputed reform of University of Copenhagen administration

280 full-time equivalent staff will be cut from the administration. Chair of the Board stresses that the cuts must be included in any future political demands for savings.

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Working environment

That déjà vu feeling: She has seen it all before

Charlotte Zoey Søndergaard knows what back-to-back restructuring drives and cuts can do to a workplace. Now she is concerned that the administration reform at the University of Copenhagen will lead to shoddy work, and even deception.

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Working environment

Administration reform: How will it affect the workplace?

We asked organizational psychologist Malene Friis Andersen what the major changes at the University of Copenhagen mean in terms of employee well-being.

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Education

New study: Students need more teaching in artificial intelligence

If students are not being taught artificial intelligence, they are not being prepared for the labour market of the real world . This is according to a researcher who encourages the University of Copenhagen to make the new technology a bigger part of students' daily lives.

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Working environment

Data slip-up: IT manager blames it on »ageing IT systems«

IT head at the University of Copenhagen says that it was ageing systems that led to a select group of employees having improper access to sensitive personal information from 310,000 students and employees over a longer period of time.

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Campus

University of Copenhagen staff had access to sensitive data of 310,000 people

A group of employees has been able to access the Danish CPR numbers and other sensitive information from 310,000 students and employees affiliated to the University of Copenhagen. For several years.

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Campus

Karaoke, quizzes and Danish rock star the big draw at this year's KU festival

»In these difficult times, it is important that we stick together across the organisation«. This according to an employee at this year's KU festival, which included a concert with Danish singer Sanne Salomonsen, brilliant quizzes, and a huge karaoke party.

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Opinion

What the University of Copenhagen can learn from Rafah Garden

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Science

This team fixed the Foucault pendulum at the Geocenter

The workshop is a key part of the cutting-edge research at the Niels Bohr Institute. It has, perhaps, the best working environment at the University of Copenhagen. And it can solve almost impossible tasks. Now they have finally got the pendulum swinging again