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The Danish Eastern High Court has reduced a penalty given to UCPH for using a foreign examiner without a work permit. UCPH keeps its fast-track license.
Things don’t look good for the trust between management and staff at the University of Copenhagen. Yet the Board now moves to close down departmental councils which aimed to ensure employee and student involvement. The Board believes in other methods.
More and more academics have to make do with short-term jobs. So many, that the temporarily hired are the largest group of researchers at the University of Copenhagen. Now they are organizing themselves, and demanding better working conditions. They say it will benefit research.
See what the different salary groups earn at the University of Copenhagen
On research leave, Lykke Friis recently travelled through Germany to gain a first-hand impression of the election. The University Post got the chance to ask her how she experienced the election 'in situ' and if it surprised her.
The University of Copenhagen has announced its annual elections! Here is all about the boards and committees of UCPH that staff and students are voting for in this year's election.
In a response to Mette Reissmann of the Social Democrats (S), the Minister for Higher Education and Research Søren Pind has specified what the Danish government's two per cent so-called re-prioritization contributions will cost the different educational institutions. The University of Copenhagen is, by far, hit the hardest.
Censors will now assess students’ master’s theses at the Faculty of Humanities in just five hours. They used to do it in ten hours.
Danish legislation aimed at preventing so-called honour-related crimes is largely ineffective, according to the findings of a recent doctoral dissertation
The Danish government wants to increase the total public research funding to DKK 22.2 billion on its budget. But this remains below the 2016 level before the large scale cuts. And the so-called re-prioritization contribution will continue, each year cutting two per cent from the universities’ grants for education.
