Universitetsavisen
Nørregade 10
1165 København K
Tlf: 35 32 28 98 (mon-thurs)
E-mail: uni-avis@adm.ku.dk
University of Copenhagen
Independent of management
Section
The Danish government will make ten percent of funding for universities dependent on students’ timely completion of their study programmes and on how quickly they get a job
Students in higher education have evaluated their fellow students' ‘commitment’ in a new study. The result shows a "relatively low" commitment according to the Ministry for Higher Education and Research - and Minister Søren Pind believes that students should "pull up their socks and take responsibility".
Newly named chairman of the board Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen promises to work to give students more opportunity to learn from researchers.
After massive criticism, Minister of Higher Education and Research Søren Pind has changed his plans for controlling the country's universities. Students and staff will still have a place on the committee that is to appoint the chairman and external board members. But the agreement still curbs university autonomy, say critics.
Master’s students thinking about plagiarising material for their thesis ought to think again. The University of Copenhagen will soon be checking all theses using an improved comparison system
According to a new analysis, foreign students at colleges and business academies go home when they have finished their education. Now, the Minister for Higher Education and Research wants to check how many university students stay in Denmark
The number of applicants has dropped a bit, but getting through the Danish universities’ quota 2 application system is still tough at the University of Copenhagen. And the most popular education programme has just got even more difficult to get into.
According to a recently completed survey of study programme choices by studentum.dk the Danish cap on education programmes has more young people deferring their education
Bo Gad Køhlert is to start as the new student ambassador 1st April. He has 15 years experience in administering programmes at Roskilde University (RUC) and the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU). At UCPH he is to help give guidance and counselling to students in their encounter with the university’s administration.
Things are moving in the right direction for the quality of PhDs in Denmark. This is according to supervisors and a group of international reviewers who took part in a large study of the PhD programmes’ quality and relevance.
