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You want to be a good university citizen. And you want to exercise your democratic right to vote. Here is a guide to the University of Copenhagen's elections.
According to the Danish Minister for Higher Education, thousands of international students will be on their way to the Danish universities of the future. Prorector for Education at UCPH Kristian Cedervall Lauta likes the idea. But it does worry him a bit.
It's time for this year's round of university elections. Here are this year's leading candidates for the positions on the UCPH Board.
Nima Moradi is a medical student at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH). Between his exams and his work in psychiatry, he fights against the theocratic regime in Iran as an activist in Copenhagen. This includes singing a protest song that silenced its author and had him sent to jail.
Salaries ranged between DKK 121,919 (EUR 16,347 ) and DKK 19,972 (EUR 2,678) a month at the University of Copenhagen in 2023. Here is the full list of job functions and their aggregated pay.
After multiple temporary extensions, universities can finally breathe a collective sigh of relief. On the Danish government’s 2024 budget is an increase in government subsidies that will be made permanent from 2025.
Ten per cent of master’s study programmes will be shortened. The number of admitted bachelor students is to be cut by eight per cent. Up to twenty per cent of all admissions need to be on a business master's degree. A temporary increase in the government’s funding to the humanities and social sciences degree programmes is to be permanent.
The 2003 Danish University Act strengthened universities' ties to society. But according to a thorough investigation, the legislation adversely affected the freedom of research, and it damaged the management and running of the universities.
Negotiations are heating up over a reform to Danish master's degrees. But the government and the universities are still far apart. And universities have to make a choice between a rock and hard place if they want to make concessions to the government's ambitions, according to the UCPH prorector.
Denmark is ranked high in an international study of academic freedom. But two researchers are sceptical about the criteria that the study is based on. And they recommend that academic freedom is enshrined in the Danish constitution.
