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Three months after graduation, 26 per cent of all international students have left Denmark. The Danish government wants to cut down on the programmes where the fewest international students find jobs in Denmark.
In a column published in the scientific journal Science, former UCPH researchers Lars Lønsmann Iversen and Mette Bendixen argue that research foundations should actively participate in improving working conditions for researchers by incorporating a code of conduct into grant applications. One fund, Villum Fonden, says it is not their responsibility.
A number of foundations would pay a larger portion of the universities' costs for administration and rent, if they can document what the money is used for.
Professor Bente Stallknecht is taking over the post of Prorector of Education from Lykke Friis.
Birgitte Vedersø, chair of the association of Danish gymnasiums, and Carsten Krogh Gomard, co-founder of Netcompany, have been selected as the Board’s next external members
Chairman of the association for temporarily-hired researchers at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) is delighted with the fact that the Research Policy Council is to focus on PhDs’ difficult career paths. The next step could be a study whether the working conditions for younger researchers forces them to work for free and to show servility to permanent staff.
French police have the rectors’ permission to use tear gas when students demonstrate. Danish associate professor who teaches at the Sorbonne in Paris is appalled with the situation.
The Board of Directors at the University of Copenhagen want to spend millions of kroner on 11 projects to turn the university's strategy into more than just a policy document.
Foreign researchers and PhD students may now hold sideline jobs without having a separate work permit. It presupposes, however, that the job is related to their field of research. Employees on the Danish so-called pay limit scheme (for high salary contracts) are not, however, included.
The chairmanship of the Danish Economic Council, the so-called economic wisemen, are not against the Danish SU student grant system. But Denmark gives too much of it away, they write in a new report. A more fair system would turn part of the SU grant into a loan, they say.
