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All exams at the University of Copenhagen are to be held online for the rest of the spring semester.<\/p>\n

This was announced by the university 1 April in response to what, according to the Student Council’s chairperson Mike Gudbergsen, had been \u00bba swamp of uncertainty,\u00ab for students. Due to the outbreak of the coronavirus students and staff had been sent home.<\/p>\n

We don’t want to lower the quality. We need to prevent ‘corona cohorts’ of graduates<\/p>\n

Rie Snekkerup, Deputy Director for Education & Students<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Rie Snekkerup, who is Deputy Director for Education & Students at the University of Copenhagen, says that the far-reaching decision to make all exams digital has been taken to lift students out of this swamp of uncertainty.<\/p>\n

\u00bbIt leads to a lot of uncertainty among students and teachers when they cannot look beyond the next 14 days. That’s why it’s been important for us to be allowed to make a longer-term plan, so that everyone knows what they have to look forward to until the end of the semester. This is to give answers and to ensure stability.\u00ab<\/p>\n

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Some may find it overwhelming to have to take oral exams online, for example, and many people are not used to it. Will the requirements for these be the same as normal?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00bbIf a subject has a requirement that you have to carry out an experiment or produce some empirical data, and if the corona crisis has prevented this – then it doesn’t make sense to stick to that requirement.\u00ab<\/p>\n

\u00bbBut we don’t want to lower the quality. We need to prevent a cohort of corona graduates or \u2018corona diplomas\u2019 where companies will say ‘oh yes, it was you that was a student during the corona crisis. You are probably not as good as the others’. We want to avoid that.\u00ab<\/p>\n

Will it not be difficult to meet the requirements of students who feel that they have not been able to get the most out of a digital teaching programme?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00bbYes, I think so, and it is therefore up to the examiner and co-examiner to deal with it in the specific exam situation and take the necessary considerations into account.\u00ab<\/p>\n

Bachelor deadlines upheld<\/h3>\n

With the 1 April announcement, the University of Copenhagen has given the different study boards the option to move master thesis deadlines back one month. This will, however, only be the case for education programmes that suffered particularly from the corona crisis, for example if students cannot get hold of empirical data or do lab tests.<\/p>\n

The University of Copenhagen has given the different study boards the option to move thesis deadlines back one month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00bbSeveral programmes are therefore likely to need a postponement of the deadline,\u00ab management stated in the mail to students.<\/p>\n

This also means that more general problems such as limited access to literature cannot justify a change to deadlines for master thesis submission.<\/p>\n

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The question is, what does it mean for the wider group of students who have not been given more time to complete their master\u2019s theses?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00bbThere are a lot of students who will be able to cope with this, and there are some who won’t. Those who can\u2019t will have the opportunity to apply for an individual exemption,\u00ab says Rie Snekkerup.<\/p>\n

Those who cannot cope may, for example, be students with children or students who have a functional disability. Are you going to make it easier for them to seek dispensation?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00bbYes. We would like to set up a simple and fast model for seeking dispensation, a kind of fast track for students who have had difficulty completing online teaching and tests. So they can easily seek dispensation and get answers quickly. In fact, some faculties already have a good model.\u00ab<\/p>\n

You have given the study boards the opportunity to push back master thesis deadlines. What about bachelor\u2019s projects?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00bbAs a rule, we considered that there is no need for a general deferral of deadlines for bachelor projects. This does not mean that students cannot face challenges that prevent them from finishing. They may apply for an individual exemption.\u00ab<\/p>\n

Why are you considering master\u2019s theses differently from bachelor projects?<\/em><\/p>\n

We do not want to place a burden on students or teachers by conducting exams or teaching in July.<\/p>\n

Rie Snekkerup, Deputy Director for Education & Students<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u00bbThe main reason is that the transition from the bachelor\u2019s to the master’s programme should preferably be as simple as possible. You don’t want to have to delay your bachelor project for too long, because it could end up with an extension that lasts longer than just a month, and then admission to a master’s programme can be a challenge.\u00ab<\/p>\n

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Why haven’t you pushed exams and deadlines into July?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00bbWe’d really like to avoid pushing things into July. There’s probably someone who has to spend the first week of July on exams, but that’s how it is normally. We would very much like everything to be as normal as possible. We do not want to place a burden on students or teachers by conducting exams or teaching in July.\u00ab<\/p>\n

Teaching to also continue online<\/h3>\n

When asked directly, Rie Snekkerup says that what applies to teaching also applies to exams: They will, as a rule, be held online for the rest of the semester.<\/p>\n

It is certainly unlikely that campus will be opened for all students, according to the deputy director.<\/p>\n

\u00bbWe need to send a clear signal that both teaching and testing are conducted online. If we get the opportunity to open again, we will decide what types of students can come back. This will certainly happen gradually and we are looking at different scenarios,\u00ab says Rie Snekkerup.<\/p>\n

\u00bbWe are looking at the students whose teaching and tests cannot be held digitally (like on study programmes such as medicine, odontology and veterinary medicine, ed.). We will see if we can meet them half way.\u00ab<\/p>\n

Does this mean that you can be absolutely certain that both teaching and exams will take place online for the rest of the semester if you are not on an education programme with these particular challenges?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00bbYou say certain … I don’t suppose anything is certain in this situation. Much depends on the government’s decisions on when and how the reopening of Denmark is to take place,\u00ab says Rie Snekkerup.<\/p>\n

\u00bbWe will, if possible, try to uphold the current plans, because students need to be able to plan ahead. They need to be able to look beyond the next two weeks.\u00ab<\/p>\n

Translated by Mike Young<\/em>
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This could be students of medicine, dentistry and vet science."},{"acf_fc_layout":"Standfirst","subject":"Interview","text":"This is a story about what will follow","use_post_excerpt":true},{"acf_fc_layout":"Byline","is_author":true,"contributors":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>All exams at the University of Copenhagen are to be held online for the rest of the spring semester.<\/p>\n<p>This was announced by the university 1 April in response to what, according to the Student Council’s chairperson Mike Gudbergsen, had been \u00bba swamp of uncertainty,\u00ab for students. Due to the outbreak of the coronavirus students and staff had been sent home.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We don’t want to lower the quality. We need to prevent ‘corona cohorts’ of graduates<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Rie Snekkerup, Deputy Director for Education & Students<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Rie Snekkerup, who is Deputy Director for Education & Students at the University of Copenhagen, says that the far-reaching decision to make all exams digital has been taken to lift students out of this swamp of uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbIt leads to a lot of uncertainty among students and teachers when they cannot look beyond the next 14 days. That’s why it’s been important for us to be allowed to make a longer-term plan, so that everyone knows what they have to look forward to until the end of the semester. This is to give answers and to ensure stability.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:<\/strong> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/with-university-closed-julie-is-scared-of-her-own-decline\/\">With university closed, Julie is scared of her own decline<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Some may find it overwhelming to have to take oral exams online, for example, and many people are not used to it. Will the requirements for these be the same as normal?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00bbIf a subject has a requirement that you have to carry out an experiment or produce some empirical data, and if the corona crisis has prevented this – then it doesn’t make sense to stick to that requirement.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbBut we don’t want to lower the quality. We need to prevent a cohort of corona graduates or \u2018corona diplomas\u2019 where companies will say ‘oh yes, it was you that was a student during the corona crisis. You are probably not as good as the others’. We want to avoid that.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p><em>Will it not be difficult to meet the requirements of students who feel that they have not been able to get the most out of a digital teaching programme?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00bbYes, I think so, and it is therefore up to the examiner and co-examiner to deal with it in the specific exam situation and take the necessary considerations into account.\u00ab<\/p>\n<h3>Bachelor deadlines upheld<\/h3>\n<p>With the 1 April announcement, the University of Copenhagen has given the different study boards the option to move master thesis deadlines back one month. This will, however, only be the case for education programmes that suffered particularly from the corona crisis, for example if students cannot get hold of empirical data or do lab tests.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The University of Copenhagen has given the different study boards the option to move thesis deadlines back one month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00bbSeveral programmes are therefore likely to need a postponement of the deadline,\u00ab management stated in the mail to students.<\/p>\n<p>This also means that more general problems such as limited access to literature cannot justify a change to deadlines for master thesis submission.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/adm\/universitypost\"><strong>SIGN UP FOR THE UNIVERSITY POST NEWSLETTER HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The question is, what does it mean for the wider group of students who have not been given more time to complete their master\u2019s theses?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThere are a lot of students who will be able to cope with this, and there are some who won’t. Those who can\u2019t will have the opportunity to apply for an individual exemption,\u00ab says Rie Snekkerup.<\/p>\n<p><em>Those who cannot cope may, for example, be students with children or students who have a functional disability. Are you going to make it easier for them to seek dispensation?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00bbYes. We would like to set up a simple and fast model for seeking dispensation, a kind of fast track for students who have had difficulty completing online teaching and tests. So they can easily seek dispensation and get answers quickly. In fact, some faculties already have a good model.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p><em>You have given the study boards the opportunity to push back master thesis deadlines. What about bachelor\u2019s projects?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00bbAs a rule, we considered that there is no need for a general deferral of deadlines for bachelor projects. This does not mean that students cannot face challenges that prevent them from finishing. They may apply for an individual exemption.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p><em>Why are you considering master\u2019s theses differently from bachelor projects?<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We do not want to place a burden on students or teachers by conducting exams or teaching in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Rie Snekkerup, Deputy Director for Education & Students<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00bbThe main reason is that the transition from the bachelor\u2019s to the master’s programme should preferably be as simple as possible. You don’t want to have to delay your bachelor project for too long, because it could end up with an extension that lasts longer than just a month, and then admission to a master’s programme can be a challenge.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:<\/strong> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/army-of-medical-students-poised-to-take-on-corona-things-can-get-serious\/\">Army of medical students poised to take on corona: \u00bbThings can get serious\u00ab<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Why haven’t you pushed exams and deadlines into July?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00bbWe’d really like to avoid pushing things into July. There’s probably someone who has to spend the first week of July on exams, but that’s how it is normally. We would very much like everything to be as normal as possible. We do not want to place a burden on students or teachers by conducting exams or teaching in July.\u00ab<\/p>\n<h3>Teaching to also continue online<\/h3>\n<p>When asked directly, Rie Snekkerup says that what applies to teaching also applies to exams: They will, as a rule, be held online for the rest of the semester.<\/p>\n<p>It is certainly unlikely that campus will be opened for all students, according to the deputy director.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbWe need to send a clear signal that both teaching and testing are conducted online. If we get the opportunity to open again, we will decide what types of students can come back. This will certainly happen gradually and we are looking at different scenarios,\u00ab says Rie Snekkerup.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbWe are looking at the students whose teaching and tests cannot be held digitally (like on study programmes such as medicine, odontology and veterinary medicine, ed.). We will see if we can meet them half way.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p><em>Does this mean that you can be absolutely certain that both teaching and exams will take place online for the rest of the semester if you are not on an education programme with these particular challenges?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00bbYou say certain … I don’t suppose anything is certain in this situation. Much depends on the government’s decisions on when and how the reopening of Denmark is to take place,\u00ab says Rie Snekkerup.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbWe will, if possible, try to uphold the current plans, because students need to be able to plan ahead. They need to be able to look beyond the next two weeks.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p><em>Translated by Mike Young<\/em><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":false,"references":false,"category":false,"theme":false,"number_of_posts":"4","style":"default"}]},"taxonomyData":{"category":[{"term_id":3302,"name":"Coronavirus","slug":"corona-virus","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3302,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":58,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":42,"name":"Education","slug":"education","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":42,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":661,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[{"term_id":3210,"name":"Corona","slug":"corona-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3210,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":42,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":3201,"name":"Coronavirus","slug":"coronavirus-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3201,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":25,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":3212,"name":"COVID-19","slug":"covid-19-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3212,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":28,"filter":"raw"}],"post_format":[],"expression":[{"term_id":15,"name":"News Article","slug":"news_article","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":15,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":11493,"filter":"raw"}],"translation_priority":[]},"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/coronatomt.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103360"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103589,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103360\/revisions\/103589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}