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Responding to government pressure on the University of Copenhagen to cut completion times, the Faculty of Humanities has now announced that it will go one step further: While the University of Copenhagen will have to improve completion times for Master’s students by nearly eight months by 2020 to avoid financial penalties, the Faculty of Humanities students will have to complete their studies faster by a whole year. <\/p>\n

The Faculty has the longest average completion times at the University, and contributes negatively towards raising the average, the Dean Ulf Hedetoft says in a news memo sent out to all humanities students. <\/p>\n

And as humanities students are those that pull up the completion-time average, they will now have to reduce the most, saying that “the target is ambitious \u2013 an average reduction of a whole year by 2020.”<\/p>\n

Huge task<\/h2>\n

“The main means of achieving the target will be to simplify processes, increase students\u2019 workload during the stipulated period of study, and improve the study environment by supporting and encouraging closer contact and dialogue with the students,” Ulf Hedetoft writes. <\/p>\n

Management has singled out 11 focus areas (here on KUnet.dk, needs log-in, ed.) <\/a> that will involve tightening up on activity requirements, simplifying rules and courses of study, launching new initiatives and offering students new opportunities.<\/p>\n

Writing to all on the Humanities mailing list, he says that this is a huge task: “We will only succeed if everybody at the faculty \u2013 students, teachers, managers and administrative staff \u2013 contributes their share.”<\/p>\n

Govt. threatens to cut funding<\/h2>\n

He asks for co-operation, as “if we do not succeed, the worst-case scenario will be a reduction of our government allocation of up to DKK 60 million \u2013 equivalent to one-fourth of the current funding of our teaching activities.”<\/p>\n

According to UIf Hedetoft, a reduced completion-time will not result in lower quality programmes.<\/p>\n

“There is no evidence to suggest that finishing a degree more quickly lowers the quality of the graduate programmes. A look at the rest of the world reveals that it is normal for the stipulated time frame to be the time it actually takes to complete study programmes \u2013 and that exceeding this time limit is the exception, not the rule.”<\/p>\n

Most programmes run over time<\/h2>\n

“In Denmark, the opposite is still the case, even though we do already have some strong and intensive MA programmes that make good use of the students\u2019 time and fully live up to the target for the future. However, these programmes are unfortunately in the minority,” he says.<\/p>\n

See the 11 point plan here on KUnet.dk (needs log-in) <\/a> <\/p>\n

miy@adm.ku.dk<\/p>\n

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A look at the rest of the world reveals that it is normal for the stipulated time frame to be the time it actually takes to complete study programmes \u2013 and that exceeding this time limit is the exception, not the rule.”<\/p>\n<h2>Most programmes run over time<\/h2>\n<p>“In Denmark, the opposite is still the case, even though we do already have some strong and intensive MA programmes that make good use of the students\u2019 time and fully live up to the target for the future. However, these programmes are unfortunately in the minority,” he says.<\/p>\n<p>See the 11 point plan here <a href=\"https:\/\/intranet.ku.dk\/hum\/undervisning\/Documents\/Conversion.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">on KUnet.dk (needs log-in) <\/a> <\/p>\n<p>miy@adm.ku.dk<\/p>\n<p><em>Like us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UniversityPost\" target=\"_blank\"> Facebook <\/a> for features, guides and tips on upcoming events. 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