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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.
Lisbeth Møller, Deputy Director for HR at UCPH explains what is actually meant by zero tolerance towards sexual and other types of harassment.
The University of Copenhagen is now to introduce a zero tolerance policy on sexual harassment and other violations. The Danish government is also to amend the Law on Equal Treatment so that a casual workplace atmosphere can no longer be a mitigating factor.
According to Universities Denmark figures, the annual two per cent cut to education programmes has so far cost hundreds of employees their jobs at the University of Copenhagen.
University of Copenhagen management wants to internally redistribute funding for research and education. This may be the biggest change at UCPH in recent years.
Small centrist party wants it to be easier for highly skilled non-Danes from countries outside the EU to apply for jobs in Denmark.
