Liberal Alliance\u2019s (LA) education and research spokesperson Henrik Dahl wants to know how many people are employed at the University of Copenhagen\u2019s (UCPH) administration and communications department, and how much the employees earn all up. <\/p>\n
This came in the form of a question which Dahl posed to education and research minister Ulla T\u00f8rn\u00e6s (Venstre). <\/p>\n
\u201cAccounting for each of the last ten years, can the minister provide information about what the University of Copenhagen has spent on salary payments to administrative employees both then and today, together with the number of administrative positions, and can the minister similarly provide what the university\u2019s total salary payments to the communications department has cost and continues to cost, as well as the number of positions?\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s rarely seen that a politician specifically inquires into the conditions at an individual university and a specific department, so Uniavisen asked Henrik Dahl: what\u2019s the reason behind it all? <\/p>\n
Dahl denies that he has a grudge against UCPH:<\/p>\n
\u201cI am also interested in the other universities, but if you must eat an elephant, you should do it in small bites,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n
But are you asking, because you believe that the administration at UCPH is particularly large? <\/p>\n
\u201cI am interested to know how the relationship between the costs of research and education and the costs of administration have developed. I don\u2019t know the answer but I am curious,\u201d says Dahl and continues: <\/p>\n
\u201cA Norwegian study a few years ago showed that UCPH is the most over-administrated university in the Nordics. Last I saw, there were more than 100 employees who work with communication at UCPH and although they are a large organisation, that\u2019s a lot. It would, however, be wrong to draw conclusions before I have received an answer from the ministry,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n
Dahl, who is also LA\u2019s \u2018de-bureacratisation\u2019 spokesperson, also spoke about administration across the country\u2019s universities when earlier this year UCPH was forced say farewell to 261 employees within research and education and 176 administrative employees, as a result of the government\u2019s budget cuts. <\/p>\n
When UCPH\u2019s rector Ralf Hemmingsen spoke to the press and warned against the consequences of the cuts, Dahl responded that it was \u201cthe professional academic\u2019s job to moan about being allocated less money.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is how it is with the universities, they are extremely bureaucratic. So we are looking at whether these savings should exclusively happen for administrative employees. There is a crazy amount of them,\u201d said the LA spokesman. <\/p>\n
Jasper Steen Winkel, vice director of communication at UCPH, first wishes to comment on the questions posed by Henrik Dahl, when the university has responded to the Parliamentary Education and Research Committee. <\/p>\n
The engineer did, however, make a headcount of communications employees in the country\u2019s universities in July of this year. <\/p>\n
It showed that UCPH today has at least 64 communications employees against 36 in 2005 and 13 in 2000. <\/p>\n
UCPH, who according to the statement spends the most money in the field, paid out 63.5 million kroner in salaries to communications employees in 2015. This is a tripling when compares with what the university spent in 2005. <\/p>\n
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