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Dogukan Jesper Gür has contacted the University Post on behalf of a number of minority ethnic dentistry students. The students describe how they are the object of systematic discrimination on their study programme, and how management is not taking their problem seriously.
Almost 20 male students on the dentistry master's degree programme have told the University Post that they face discrimination because of their ethnicity. The department management is now launching an internal investigation.
Less help, more reprimands. A feeling of having to overperform every day just to prove that you are suitable for the study programme. Several male, brown-skinned, students explain here what they see as 'systematic discrimination' on the master's degree programme in dentistry.
The Minister of Higher Education and Research is considering increasing dentistry student admissions. But this requires more instructors at the Department of Odontology.
Michelle Bornemann Honoré has received DKK 147,000 to do research on the disease EDS in muscles and jaw joints. She hopes it can help dentists reveal the disease earlier in patients.
The remaining staff at the School of Dentistry are to have their well-being improved through a collaborative project that will make them more mentally robust. Managers are also following a course.
