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The Novo Nordisk Foundation has put billions into the University of Copenhagen. Now one of the top people from the foundation’s company Novo Nordisk has been made the new chairman of the University’s board. What is the significance of the marriage between the university and the pharmaceutical industry?
Look up. Play the jazz saxophone. The inspiration can come from the strangest places, says UCPH’s international star lawyer, professor and center director Mikael Rask Madsen.
After massive criticism, Minister of Higher Education and Research Søren Pind has changed his plans for controlling the country's universities. Students and staff will still have a place on the committee that is to appoint the chairman and external board members. But the agreement still curbs university autonomy, say critics.
According to a recently completed survey of study programme choices by studentum.dk the Danish cap on education programmes has more young people deferring their education
Executive Vice President of Novo Nordisk Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen is to be chairman of the University of Copenhagen’s Board of Directors. He succeeds Nils Strandberg Pedersen.
On 22 April, scientists all over the globe will march in co-ordinated protests in 394 cities. Ian Bearden, a physicist and professor at UCPH, is organising the march in Copenhagen because he wants his children to inherit a liveable planet.
Minister for Research Søren Pind has invited representatives from the country's universities and research foundations to a meeting. They are to discuss a strategy and vision for Danish research.
In the beginning of January, adjustments were made to the education cap. Students are now able to study for a new free university degree six years after their final exam. According to the Minister for Higher Education and Science, Søren Pind, the new agreement will affect almost a thousand students.
The University of Copenhagen is to find two new board members, but the question is whether they can make it before the Minister for Higher Education and Science has a new law adopted giving him more power over the process.
New bill from the Minister for Education and Research Søren Pind (V) means that students and staff will lose their influence on the appointment of the chairman and the external members of the University’s Board of Directors.
