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Life Sciences names 60 staff to be sacked

The Faculty of Life Sciences has told 60 staff that they are to lose their jobs. Acting Dean Erik Bisgaard Madsen regrets the situation

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No decision in sight on government funding

With national elections ahead, universities' budget problems will not be resolved

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Plan to attract elite PhD students

Glimpses of university’s new strategy flashed at New Year’s briefing of administrators

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Calls for new Penkowa inquest rejected

Chairman rejects open letter from staff calling for impartial investigation into the highly controversial Milena Penkowa case. Rector's office has no »professional, economic or personal interests or relations to Penkowa«, he says

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Down and out in Wannabe University

FEATURE: Professor went undercover to find out how a large US university really worked. She found an institution in the thrall of auditing, corporate ideology and obsessive rankings

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Director: University heading towards abyss

Universities now need to know where they stand, says university director Jørgen Honoré. As financial meltdown looms, he calls for a political deal on financing

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Meaning of LIFE proved elusive

To this reporter, who didn’t speak Danish, the meeting to explain budget cuts was as clear as mud

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Minister at odds with Rector on gender issue

Minister of Science believes a university plan to hire more women is discriminatory, but Rector disagrees. The hiring process should merely encourage women to apply, he says

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Staff informed of Life Science budget woes

As cuts loom, staff gave voice to worries at Faculty of Life Sciences information meeting

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Faculty of Health Sciences scores DKK 600 million

Health Sciences wins a massive DKK 600 million to the new Panum building, writes KUnet. Donation is from the non-profit foundation of shipping and oil conglomerate A. P. Moeller - Maersk

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