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The lists of candidates for this year's UCPH election are ready. There will be a contest for the students' seats on the Board – and also for staff and student seats in several academic councils and boards of studies. Here is an overview where you can see whether you need to vote when the election starts on 26th November.
A number of UCPH departments are under so much financial pressure that they have stopped their researchers from applying for funding unless the grant giver covers overheads. Staff representative says that researchers are frustrated
Looming losses on the coming years’ budgets has the Forest and Landscape College ‘Skovskolen’ firing 10 out of 90 employees. Management has already been cut back.
Universities Denmark is leading the fight against a publishing industry which earns billions from researchers getting access to their own scientific articles. In a complaint, 800 European universities are now asking the EU competition commissioner to put her foot down.
A University of Copenhagen four-year finance forecast makes for a depressing read. Fewer revenues and increasing costs towards buildings upkeep will lead to less money at hand. University director Jesper Olesen says that the necessary adjustments have been made.
Due to major financial problems the Natural History Museum of Denmark is to be merged with the Department of Biology and faces a round of layoffs. Staff representatives criticise management for not taking timely precautions. According to the Dean at the Faculty of Science, John Renner Hansen, it is only now that they have got the full overview of how bad things were with finances.
The Faculty of Humanities is to go through a new round of cuts. Layoffs cannot be ruled out, says the Dean.
Students and staff can stand for election until 30th October. You can already now see which forums you can vote in.
The Danish government wants to make it easier to bring in international manpower to Denmark. UCPH welcomes the proposal. New rules are to cut red tape and make it easier to attract top researchers to universities.
Spanish company Inabensa writes in a press release that the Danish government agency has launched a media smear campaign against the company to cover up the agency's own errors in connection with the scandal-hit Niels Bohr building at the University of Copenhagen.
