\u00bbBoost your Career in Copenhagen!\u00ab is the headline of the job advertisement placed in the latest issue of SCIENCE magazine, by the University of Copenhagen\u2019s Faculty of Sciences, Pharma, Health and Life sciences. <\/p>\n
However, the advertising gloss is marred by the fact that while the University of Copenhagen actively recruits overseas, the university is in the process of firing 130 employees on the home front.<\/p>\n
The Danish news website for researchers ForskerForum drew attention to the advertisement which appeals to a wide audience of international PhDs.<\/p>\n
\u00bbThe University of Copenhagen is Denmark\u2019s leading University, based in its capital city and one of the top institutes for research and education in Europe,\u00ab it says in the ad. <\/p>\n
It promises potential PhD students a wage of DKK 26.500 per month, boasting that \u00bbthe University of Copenhagen is ranked 1st in Scandinavia and 8th in Europe on the ARWU 2009 Academic Ranking of World Universities\u00ab.<\/p>\n
One of the hardest hit of the affected faculties, the Faculty of Life Sciences, has already named the 50 staff members who have lost their jobs.<\/p>\n
To the University Post, director S\u00f8ren Hartz of the Faculty of Life Sciences says that the funding for admitting the international PhDs has been earmarked specifically for this purpose by politicians. <\/p>\n
\u00bbThis is one of the core elements in the recent globalisation accord (2010 political agreement, ed.) and the funds are earmarked to PhDs, so the hiring of international PhDs makes good sense,\u00ab S\u00f8ren Hartz says.<\/p>\n
The University Post has not yet been able to reach staff representative Leif S\u00f8ndergaard for a comment on the specific advertisement campaign for international PhDs. But he and other staff representatives have criticised the firing process in general, and in particular the fact that PhD students have experienced the sacking of their tutors. <\/p>\n
\u00bbThe younger scientists are asking themselves: Is there a future for me at at the university at all? Or should I instead look elsewhere before I get too old?,\u00ab he wrote in a recent featured article on University Post.<\/p>\n
Firing staff is not good branding of the university abroad, Leif S\u00f8ndergaard wrote in the recent featured article.<\/p>\n
\u00bbPh.d.-students are wondering how the university management can see fit to fire their tutor. I have heard of an international PhD student, who had just come to Denmark because they had heard that the University of Copenhagen was a good place to study, and who is in complete shock because their tutor has been fired\u00ab.<\/p>\n
luci@adm.ku.dk and miy@adm.ku.dk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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