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After a year of crisis in the workplace, a change in leadership, and relocation chaos, the Natural History Museum of Denmark managed to achieve a record number of visitors. We spoke to museum director Nina Rønsted about the last, turbulent, year.
75 exam supervisors were collectively dismissed by the University of Copenhagen after many years of service. Now, with the help of lawyer Knud Foldschack, they are demanding millions of Danish kroner in compensation for breaches of the terms of their employment.
The future administration at the University of Copenhagen is taking shape — but full implementation will take at least two years.
Deputy director apologizes and promises stricter access restrictions.
After the University of Copenhagen cancels its layoffs, the timetable will now be adjusted: Staff members to be informed earlier about where they will be placed in the new organisation structure.
Technical and administrative employees at UCPH have for a long time been in limbo — awaiting a planned round of layoffs. The layoffs have now been taken off the table. But the criticism of management is still there. The University Director regrets that the process has been so protracted.
»I am keenly aware that the prospect of layoffs has been like a black cloud over this university, and has affected both individual employees and the working environment in general,« says University Director Søren Skydsgaard. This is after the announcement that this autumn's round of layoffs has been cancelled.
Salaries ranged between DKK 128,999 (EUR 17,200 ) and DKK 19,969 (EUR 2,663) a month at the University of Copenhagen in 2024. Here is the full list of job functions and their aggregated pay.
The debate over the administration reform has been raging for so long that you may have forgotten where it all began? Here is an overview.
We asked Merete Eldrup, chair of the Board of the University of Copenhagen (UCPH), how they are going to reform the administration when the employees don’t support them.
