Several sociology students are picketing entrances to their department, citing cutbacks to their student teaching hours ‘without consultation’.<\/p>\n
(Update Monday: The physical blockade has been lifted)<\/p>\n
The decision to cut 206 hours of the classes where older students, typically PhD students, hold practical workshops and answer questions – was made without any involvement with the Board of Studies or student consultation. Now, the department\u2019s management refuses to enter into a dialogue with the students, leaving them no choice but to protest and occupy the department, the protesters say. <\/p>\n
Today Thursday 24 October, researches and professors will be greeted by a large number of students who will deny them access to the Department. Throughout the day older students will take over the academic program and run the participatory workshops. <\/p>\n
According to the students, the cuts result in a total saving of DKK 84,000, a small slice of an annual budget of DKK 25 million.<\/p>\n
The sociology students say they struggle to comprehend the cuts to the practical workshops that they find very useful.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is unnecessary that they cut something that we really enjoy \u2013 the workshops with older students are very important to discuss and expand our knowledge and hands-on exercises are more rewarding than lectures,\u201d says the spokesman of the protesters, Frederik Bach.<\/p>\n
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