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The best moments of Kristian Lauta’s student years came when lecturers ventured beyond the curriculum. He wants to pass that experience on as UCPH’s Prorector for Education, a role he will now hold until 2030. At the same time, he must navigate artificial intelligence, student protests and a master’s degree reform he remains critical of.
SCIENCE’s teaching blocks are to be shortened from eight weeks to seven. Two union representatives fear the impact on teaching and criticise insufficient staff involvement. The associate dean defends the change but acknowledges some loss of quality.
There are only few limits on what materials instructors may present, as long as they serve a legitimate academic purpose, says legal philosopher Jakob v. H. Holtermann. Students must learn to endure the discomfort that teaching may create, he argues.
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.
TV documentary asks whether students may have developed cancer after exposure to formalin in a dissection basement at the Faculty of Health and Medicine.
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.
