The University of Copenhagen (UCPH) is to have 1,590 fewer students in the future.<\/p>\n
This is according to the Rector\u2019s Office which has released its plans for complying with a Danish government requirement to either relocate the places, or abolish them.<\/p>\n
The vast majority of places to be cut will be at the Faculty of Humanities and at the Faculty of Science. The Faculty of Humanities is to reduce its student intake by 640 places up to 2030 while the Faculty of Science is to reduce by 470 places in the same period.<\/p>\n
At the Humanities faculty, this corresponds to one quarter (24 per cent) of all annual student admissions.<\/p>\n
The Humanities and Science cuts make up 40 plus 30 per cent, totalling 70 per cent, of all the University of Copenhagen places that are to be cut. The Social Sciences, Theology and Health faculties also face cuts, with only the Faculty of Law exempted. 100 master\u2019s student and 100 bachelor’s student places from the medical degree programme will be moved to the town of K\u00f8ge, south of Copenhagen. These numbers are likely to be deducted from the 1,590 total.<\/p>\n
The unequal distribution between the faculties is due to the university’s management looking at where graduates’ unemployment rates are the highest. It takes longer for graduates from the Humanities and Science faculties to find a job.<\/p>\n
\u00bbA key part of the political agreement is that universities should better match the needs of employers in the public and private sectors. For this reason, some faculties have a large task ahead of them in reducing the number of student places,\u00ab says Prorector for Education Bente Merete Stallknecht in the release which came out on the university\u2019s intranet.<\/p>\n
The affected faculties are now to decide on where to find the student places that are to be cut. They need to report this to the Rector by 19 November at the latest.<\/p>\n
The Office of the Rectorate is finding out whether some of the places can be retrieved by relocating study programmes \u2013 possibly by swapping places with other educational institutions.<\/p>\n
\nMed s\u00e5 stor en reduktion kommer KU nok ikke uden om at lukke uddannelser. Udflytning er i fleste tilf\u00e6lde ikke en reel mulighed. Men vi arbejder for en national handlingsplan, hvor vi bytter uddannelser med \u00f8vrige #DKuni<\/a>, s\u00e5 udbuddet bliver koordineret #uddpol<\/a> #forskpol<\/a> #dkpol<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/Zs4VmKtiI5<\/a><\/p>\n
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