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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.
The hotly contested Danish education reform may be in its final death throes. Was the Study Progress Reform a flop and what will take its place? The University Post summarises four years of Study Progress Reform struggle.
Rural interest group LF wants to move all study programmes that are relevant to agriculture away from the city of Copenhagen. This will lead to a fragmentation of the UCPH research environments. And it will destroy research, according to Dean of the Faculty of Science.
The Danish parliament can now take stock of the nation’s prayer room situation. Universities differ from other education institutions in that almost all of them have rooms you can pray and meditate in. The University of Copenhagen in particular has quite a few.
Prorector for Education Lykke Friis is to take four months research leave in the autumn semester.
The University of Copenhagen is to get more funding through a change of the so-called taximeter system, according to the Danish government. But the university does not understand the underlying calculations.
In a response to Poland's ambassador, Søren Pind, Minister for Higher Education and Research, writes that he understands his concern about the closure of Polish as an independent area of study. But it is not possible for him to take action in this specific case.
From 2019, Danish SU student grants will be 20 per cent lower and limited to five years. The government's 2025 plan maintains SU cuts.
