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Several of the affected students have been critical of the master\u2019s programmes they have been referred to. <\/p>\n
\u201dThe most natural master\u2019s for the study of Finnish will always be a master\u2019s in Finnish. It is absurd to claim that it is suddenly a master\u2019s in linguistics. UCPH management can claim it is so, but it doesn\u2019t make it true,\u201d says student of Finnish in a featured comment on Uniavisen.dk.<\/p>\n
Her fellow student Anna Holm S\u00f8rensen remains critical:<\/p>\n
\u201dUnless the subjects that are offered in the present master\u2019s in Finnish can be offered, then the master\u2019s in Linguistics will have no relevance for me. I am neither qualified to study it, nor do I have the desire to do so, and my fellow students feel the same way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Agency demanded detailed justification<\/h2>\n
UCPH had first requested that the Tibetologists\u2019 legal entitlement be moved to History of Religion, but they changed their minds during the course of the summer recess, according to the correspondence between UCPH and the Danish Agency for Higher Education, released to Uniavisen after a Freedom of Information request. It is clear from the release that the agency requested further justification for students of Finnish to study Lingusitics and Tibetology students to study intercultural studies.<\/p>\n
\u201dThe master\u2019s programme\u2019s subject area has a major impact on what part of the labour market the finished candidate’s skills are oriented towards. The agency estimates therefore that the bachelor degree students have a legitimate expectation that they can be admitted to a master\u2019s programme with at least a substantial overlap with the original subject field that they were legally entitled to. The Agency requests therefore that the University states to what extent the master’s program in linguistics is the natural master\u2019s programme to follow from a bachelor\u2019s degree in Finnish,” the authority writes.<\/p>\n
In the end, the officials at the Agency accepted the closure plans without further comment.<\/p>\n
Head of department Bente Olsen of the Danish Agency for Higher Education, says that it is the university that has the professional judgment to determine which master\u2019s programme is the natural continuation of a bachelor\u2019s discipline or disciplines.<\/p>\n
\u201cBased on the responses the Agency received from the University of Copenhagen, it is our opinion that the students\u2019 expectation of being admitted to a master\u2019s programme within, or with a significant overlap with the original subject field that has the legal requirement, has been met,” she writes by e\u2013mail.<\/p>\n
University lacks respect<\/h2>\n
Laura Bech Hansen thinks the case raises a fundamental question about the legal entitlement, and whether it has any use at all.<\/p>\n
She thinks it will affect admissions numbers, as students cannot be sure that they can complete the study programme that they were promised when they were admitted to university.<\/p>\n
“The students are especially worried in the smaller subject programmes, which risk being closed, but it actually affects all students. It is basically a question about our rights, and how our University perceives us. It shows neither respect for our wishes, nor respect for the profession, when it claims that the subjects of Finnish and linguistics are the same thing,” she says.<\/p>\n
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Danish Agency for Higher Education has now approved the University of Copenhagen\u2019s closure of several small study programmes. Frustrated students question the value of their legal entitlements\r\n","use_post_excerpt":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"Byline","is_author":false,"contributors":[{"use_registered_user":false,"user":false,"contributor_name":"CLAUS BAGGERSGAARD","contributor_title":" ","contributor_image":false}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>Students of Indonesian\/South East Asia studies, Thai\/South East Asia studies, Finnish, Tibetology and Indology will now have to face preparing another, different, master\u2019s degree than the degree programme that they were originally admitted to at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH).<\/p>\n<p>The students have a legal entitlement to being admitted to the master\u2019s programme that naturally follows from their bachelor programme, but in spite of this UCPH opted in April 2016 to close the five programmes at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>UCPH students had not been informed of the closure plans, finding out by accident on the University’s admission website. The information was subsequently removed when it turned out that the Danish Agency for Higher Education had not received a phase-out plan from UCPH. This was subsequently sent to the agency in June.<\/p>\n<h2>Agency has approved the closure<\/h2>\n<p>The Rector\u2019s Office subsequently apologised for the flawed information, but this will not save the programmes from closure. <\/p>\n<p>This is confirmed by Ulf Hedetoft, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Agency has accepted three of the five proposals for closure and asked for more information on the other two. This has been delivered, and these two have subsequently also been approved,” he writes via email.<\/p>\n<h2>Referred to other programmes<\/h2>\n<p>Students of Southeast Asia Studies are referred to take their master’s degree in Intercultural studies, while students of Finnish will have their legal entitlement moved to linguistics, with Tibetology students moved to intercultural studies. <\/p>\n<p>Laura Bech Hansen, chairwoman of UCPH\u2019s Humanities\u2019 council, says that UCPH has found some strange stop-gap solutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no doubt that this is a clear worsening of the students’ education. We will keep a critical and watchful eye on the quality of the study programmes that the students have been moved to,” she says.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dme-external-teaser dme-external-teaser-3\">\n<div class=\"image\">\n<div class=\"dme-image dme-image-center dme-image-preset-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/universitetsavisen.dk\/node\/33387\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/old_files\/ucph_humanitiescropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"title\">\n<div class=\"label\">L\u00e6s mere:<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/universitetsavisen.dk\/node\/33387\">UCPH confirms closure of small humanities programmes<\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"teaser_text\">\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Several of the affected students have been critical of the master\u2019s programmes they have been referred to. <\/p>\n<p>\u201dThe most natural master\u2019s for the study of Finnish will always be a master\u2019s in Finnish. It is absurd to claim that it is suddenly a master\u2019s in linguistics. UCPH management can claim it is so, but it doesn\u2019t make it true,\u201d says student of Finnish in a featured comment on Uniavisen.dk.<\/p>\n<p>Her fellow student Anna Holm S\u00f8rensen remains critical:<\/p>\n<p>\u201dUnless the subjects that are offered in the present master\u2019s in Finnish can be offered, then the master\u2019s in Linguistics will have no relevance for me. I am neither qualified to study it, nor do I have the desire to do so, and my fellow students feel the same way.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Agency demanded detailed justification<\/h2>\n<p>UCPH had first requested that the Tibetologists\u2019 legal entitlement be moved to History of Religion, but they changed their minds during the course of the summer recess, according to the correspondence between UCPH and the Danish Agency for Higher Education, released to Uniavisen after a Freedom of Information request. It is clear from the release that the agency requested further justification for students of Finnish to study Lingusitics and Tibetology students to study intercultural studies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThe master\u2019s programme\u2019s subject area has a major impact on what part of the labour market the finished candidate’s skills are oriented towards. The agency estimates therefore that the bachelor degree students have a legitimate expectation that they can be admitted to a master\u2019s programme with at least a substantial overlap with the original subject field that they were legally entitled to. The Agency requests therefore that the University states to what extent the master’s program in linguistics is the natural master\u2019s programme to follow from a bachelor\u2019s degree in Finnish,” the authority writes.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, the officials at the Agency accepted the closure plans without further comment.<\/p>\n<p>Head of department Bente Olsen of the Danish Agency for Higher Education, says that it is the university that has the professional judgment to determine which master\u2019s programme is the natural continuation of a bachelor\u2019s discipline or disciplines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on the responses the Agency received from the University of Copenhagen, it is our opinion that the students\u2019 expectation of being admitted to a master\u2019s programme within, or with a significant overlap with the original subject field that has the legal requirement, has been met,” she writes by e\u2013mail.<\/p>\n<h2>University lacks respect<\/h2>\n<p>Laura Bech Hansen thinks the case raises a fundamental question about the legal entitlement, and whether it has any use at all.<\/p>\n<p>She thinks it will affect admissions numbers, as students cannot be sure that they can complete the study programme that they were promised when they were admitted to university.<\/p>\n<p>“The students are especially worried in the smaller subject programmes, which risk being closed, but it actually affects all students. It is basically a question about our rights, and how our University perceives us. It shows neither respect for our wishes, nor respect for the profession, when it claims that the subjects of Finnish and linguistics are the same thing,” she says.<\/p>\n<p>clba@adm.ku.dk<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":false,"references":false,"category":false,"theme":false,"number_of_posts":"4","style":"default"}]},"taxonomyData":{"category":[{"term_id":42,"name":"Education","slug":"education","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":42,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":661,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[],"post_format":[],"expression":[{"term_id":15,"name":"News Article","slug":"news_article","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":15,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":11489,"filter":"raw"}],"translation_priority":[]},"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/retskrav1_0.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31096,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions\/31096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"\/old_files\/ucph_humanitiescropped.jpg\" "\\"\\"")
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