Education

After a year and a half of negotiations, the Royal Danish Library and Danish Universities have given up on reaching a new agreement with Oxford University Press. In the humanities, Associate Professor Christian Dahl fears that researchers and students will overlook important knowledge.

Faculty drops idea of short versions of traditional subjects and launches a series of new, more specialised degrees. At the same time, it is working »flat out« to get companies to take on students for business master’s degrees.

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.

Students of environmental economics say they are not being prepared for the real world and that they are only being offered one perspective on economics. Department management is prepared to make concessions.

After years of relying on awareness campaigns, a copyright enforcement group is now stepping up its efforts to combat illegal textbook copying by students at Danish universities.

In the face of what they call »a colossal development task«, University of Copenhagen management has scaled back its criticism and is now hard at work trying to make the reform a success. The prorector for education explains what they are doing to create new programmes.

With more than 10 staff laid off, and 25 staff departing voluntarily, students of Landscape Architecture at the University of Copenhagen are concerned about the continued quality of their education programme.

Mustaf Mohamed Takoy was denied entry to Denmark this summer, despite holding an Erasmus Mundus scholarship for study at UCPH. His fellow students have taken matters into their own hands and appealed the decision.