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T<\/span>he number of high salary administrative specialists has exploded at the University of Copenhagen in recent years. At the same time, there are now fewer secretaries and less clerical\/office staff<\/secret>.<\/p>\n

This is according to a new survey of the trends in staffing at Danish universities that, for the first time, maps out which parts of the administration have grown, and which parts have been cut back.<\/p>\n

\u00bbA mobilisation has taken place. The administration at the universities used to be largely subjected to the researchers. Today, the universities are professionally managed organizations that need to be able to tackle corporations like Novo Nordisk, the publishers of international rankings, and the Danish parliament. This requires an administration consisting of finance experts, lawyers, communication heads and senior consultants, and this is why we see this significant trend,\u00ab says Andreas Kj\u00e6r Stage, who is PhD student at the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University.<\/p>\n

He and Kaare Aagaard from Political Science at Aarhus University have mapped out the trends in the composition of staff at the country\u2019s universities. It has just been published in the journal ‘Higher Education’<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Many of the job titles did not exist 20 years ago. Today, they are ‘the new normal’<\/p>\n

PhD student Andreas Kj\u00e6r Stage, Aarhus University<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

At the University of Copenhagen, the so-called elite administration has tripled since 1999, while secretaries and those with office or clerical professions, which have traditionally worked in the central administration and at the departments, have been reduced by 42 per cent. The same applies to the number of technicians and laboratory technicians, that has fallen drastically. In 1999 they accounted for 28.1 per cent of the total staff at the University of Copenhagen. In 2017 the group had been reduced to 15.4 per cent.<\/p>\n

\u00bbThe growing group of administrative specialists consists of lawyers and economists<\/secret> in highly paid management positions and project positions with titles like ‘senior consultant’, ‘specialist consultant’ and ‘coordinator’. Many of the job titles did not exist 20 years ago. Today, they are ‘the new normal’,\u00ab says Andreas Kj\u00e6r Stage.
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\nHe says the group also consists of an increase in the number of communications staff who help management with PR and strategic communication. Here, you can distinguish between the people working in the University of Copenhagen’s central communications department at N\u00f8rregade, and the approximately 100 communications staff that are distributed among faculties and departments at UCPH<\/a> where they help researchers communicate their findings and results. This is a communication effort which has been estimated to cost the University of Copenhagen DKK 63.5 million in 2015.<\/p>\n

Office staff could do the tasks<\/h2>\n

Ingrid Kryhlmand, who is staff representative for clerical staff members of the University of Copenhagen, has followed this development closely.<\/p>\n

The way I see it,\u00a0 it is completely unreasonable to hire highly paid senior consultants to do administrative operational assignments that other office staff are trained to take care of.<\/p>\n

Ingrid Kryhlmand, staff representative for office\/clerical employees<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She was employed as a medical secretary at the University of Copenhagen in 1987 and has since then seen how the administration has grown rapidly.<\/p>\n

\u00bbBack then, there was one lawyer, one economist and one office staff member in the secretariat for the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. Today, there are 400 administrative employees, of which at least 200 are\u00a0 professional and managerial staff<\/secret>,\u00ab says Ingrid Kryhlmand.<\/p>\n

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Salaries in the UCPH administration<\/p>\n

Dean: DKK 115,105<\/p>\n

Head of division DKK 69,540<\/p>\n

Head of administration\u00a0 DKK 63,740<\/p>\n

Senior executive officer DKK 60,559<\/p>\n

Finance consultant: DKK 55,519<\/p>\n

HR consultant DKK 52,964<\/p>\n

Senior consultant DKK 50,798<\/p>\n

Section secretary: DKK 36,991<\/p>\n

Secretary DKK 35,196<\/p>\n

Medical secretary DKK 33,739<\/p>\n

The numbers are from 2018 and show the average monthly salary for employees at UCPH in Danish kroner (DKK) including pensions, supplementary allowances, and one-off remunerations, but excluding holiday pay, remuneration for special holidays and redundancy payments.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The growing administration should be seen in relation to the fact that the University of Copenhagen admits many more students today than 20 years ago, and that the faculties are growing. According to Ingrid Kryhlmand, there is more than enough to do for the many many administrative staff. In other words, it is not so much a question of the administration in itself growing, but more a question of who<\/em> it is that is doing the administering, and whether they are worth the money:<\/p>\n

\u00bbI find it atrocious that so many heads of office, deputy directors, senior consultants, senior consultants, senior executive officers and middle managers who have turned up over the past 10-15 years. This is a huge layer of middle management, and it is in itself fostering far more administrative tasks than before. You have to ask yourself whether it is necessary with all these middle managers. Are we getting value for money?\u00ab she asks.<\/p>\n

Ingrid Kryhlmand says that many of the tasks that the professional\/managerial employees do today are exactly the same tasks that were previously taken care of by office\/clerk staff\u00a0 \u2013 but at a lower salary.<\/p>\n

\u00bbWhen an office staff member stops, you often see an automatic search for an employee at the professional\/managerial level, or at best, a double job advert. If you look at, say, the most recent job advertisements for academic staff in a professional\/managerial position at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, the job description is administrative assignments, and they do not contain any significant academic assignments. The way I see it,\u00a0 it is completely unreasonable to hire highly paid senior consultants to do administrative operational assignments that other office staff are trained to take care of,\u00ab she says.<\/p>\n

Ingrid Kryhlmand call it the “Huey, Dewey and Louie effect” and says that it is the reason why the number of senior consultants has tripled, while there are fewer and fewer administrative staff:<\/p>\n

\u00bbThe managers are themselves academics and find it hard to see that other groups can perform the work as well. They are most comfortable hiring someone who looks like themselves.\u00ab<\/p>\n

Administrative tasks land on the researchers’ desks<\/h2>\n

A senior consultant at the University of Copenhagen gets an average of DKK 50,798 in pay, while a secretary gets DKK 35,196 (both including pension). The question is whether there are too many expensive senior consultants in the administration. and whether they are at the expense of office and clerical staff that have been cut back in the departments?<\/p>\n

A lot of our research takes place in our leisure time. But we now also use our leisure time to do administrative work<\/p>\n

Allan Randrup Thomsen, professor and staff representative for Danish specialist doctors<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u00bbOut in the departments, there has been a tendency for tasks to be pushed over to the scientific staff every time they cut back on a traditional secretary position. We use a disproportionately large amount of our time on administrative work,\u00ab says Professor of Experimental Virology at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Allan Randrup Thomsen, who is staff representative for the Danish specialist doctors\u2019 association.<\/p>\n

Allan Randrup Thomsen says it is absurd that scientific staff have to spend time on administrative work which was previously done far more efficiently by technical\/administrative staff at a much lower salary. The administration is a burden on the research and teaching, as it means that there is less time for the core tasks.<\/p>\n

\u00bbThe consequence of the increase in administrative tasks which we now have to take care of, is that it takes time from our research and what we have actually been recruited and trained to do. We don\u2019t have enough time as it is. A lot of our research takes place in our leisure time. But we now also use our leisure time to do administrative work,\u00ab Allan Randrup Thomsen says.<\/p>\n

The problem is, to take the travel reimbursement system \u2018RejsUd\u2019 system as an example, it takes up an unnecessary amount of time because the scientific staff do not have the routine in doing the registration on it. And at the same time a large number of hours is spent completing forms and sending invoices back and forwards in the system.<\/p>\n

\u00bbIt is often double work, because it still ends up having to be handed over to a secretary. Either because you’ve done it wrong, or because the registration needs to be checked somewhere else in the system,\u00ab\u00a0 says Allan Randrup Thomsen. He questions whether the large amounts of internal administration are actually needed.<\/p>\n

\u00bbIn many contexts you can ask yourself whether the treatment is commensurate with the diagnosis? To a certain extent, we as a university help create internal administration. We generally have a very bureaucratic way of solving things, and it requires a lot of administrative resources,\u00ab he says.<\/p>\n

Cheaper administration in per cent<\/h2>\n

According to director Jesper Olesen of the University of Copenhagen, it is quite natural that there has been growth in the administration relative to 20 years ago. He points out that the administration percentage overall is declining. And that the University of Copenhagen’ scientific staff (VIP) \/ technical-administrative staff (TAP) ratio is also unchanged over the last 10 years. Something that does not hold for other Danish universities like the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU).<\/p>\n

The university has grown. There has therefore also been growth in the administration. But if we look at the figures and compare with the university’s total costs, we use a lower proportion of money on administration today than before.<\/p>\n

Director of University of Copenhagen, Jesper Olesen<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u00bbThe university has grown. There has therefore also been growth in the administration. But if we look at the figures and compare with the university’s total costs, we use a lower proportion of money on administration today than before,\u00ab says Jesper Olesen.<\/p>\n

He believes that the increase in the number of senior consultants relative to office\/clerical employees has to do with the university becoming a more complex organisation.<\/p>\n

“Financial management and the other administrative tasks have become more complex and require a higher level of education than office\/clerical staff have. At the same time, technological developments have led to many of the tasks that office\/clerical employees had previously, being replaced by self-service systems which have rendered many of the positions obsolete,,\u00ab says Jesper Olesen.<\/p>\n

Do you understand the professors who complain that they spend too much of their time on administrative tasks, and that they need a secretary who would be able to do the job twice as fast for half the salary?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00bbI understand the frustration of many researchers having to carry out administrative tasks, that they are not trained for. But you should remember that the perceived burden does not always match the savings that you actually achieve,\u00ab says Jesper Olesen.
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\nJesper Olesen says it is about financing and the prioritisation of resources.<\/p>\n

\u00bbIn the perfect world I would prefer researchers used 95 per cent of their time on research and education, and that it was office and clerical staff that did the administrative work. But the calculation is not that simple. Secretaries do not just cost half in terms of salary. They also cost the space they take up, and at the University of Copenhagen the price per square metre is expensive,\u00ab says Jesper Olesen.<\/p>\n

He points out that technological development is also the reason why many laboratory technician positions have been cut in recent years:<\/p>\n

\u00bbInstead of laboratory technicians, we now have robots that are handled by employees with a different education background. At the same time, we have many more PhDs today that solve many of the tasks in the laboratories which were previously carried out laboratory technicians,\u00ab says Jesper Olesen.<\/p>\n

Not evil bureaucrats<\/h2>\n

Staff representative for technical\/administrative staff Signe M\u00f8ller Johansen is one of the many senior consultants who has been employed in recent years at the University of Copenhagen. She was employed 11 years ago and has seen how universities have become more micro-managed with more rules and regulations:<\/p>\n

\u00bbThe more regulations, the more there is to administer. There is a good deal of complexity in the systems, laws and regulations, that we are subject to as a university. And there is tighter political control of the universities, which means that we need to produce numbers and reports, and achieve targets to a much larger extent than previously. The boom in externally funded research has also had an impact, because it has set off more administration in the field of research,\u00ab says Signe M\u00f8ller Johansen.<\/p>\n

She does not know much about what the new group of senior consultants can do that office\/clerical staff can\u2019t. But she points out that senior consultants are a diverse group that take on a wide variety of tasks, and who work in all corners of the organisation \u2013 in research groups, at departments and faculties, and in the central administration.<\/p>\n

\u00bbIf you think that the senior consultants only work with administration and that they are all in the central administration, then you are mistaken. Things are far more complex,\u00ab says Signe M\u00f8ller Johansen.<\/p>\n

Senior consultants are roughly divided into three groups. There are the specialists who contribute to research and education and that typically included in the research teams or who are in the administration as experts in legal issues, external funding, IT, construction or budget management.<\/p>\n

\u00bbIn addition, there is a large group of professional managers or coordinators, who can be anything from laboratory managers, research coordinators, team coordinators or managers of student counsellors. And finally, there is the group of experienced generalists, who typically work as project managers or strategy consultants with interdisciplinary projects and processes across UCPH,\u00ab\u00a0 says Signe M\u00f8ller Johansen.<\/p>\n

It’s not that senior consultants in the administration are just evil bureaucrats. Just like anyone else we are interested in the university functioning as simply and smoothly as possible.<\/p>\n

Signe M\u00f8ller Johansen, staff representative for professionals\/managers group at UCPH<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Her impression is that the tasks for the technical-administrative staff have changed over the years, and that the composition of the workforce has therefore also changed.<\/p>\n

\u00bbI think everyone will agree that there is too much political control and too much bureaucracy. It’s not that senior consultants in the administration are just evil bureaucrats. Just like anyone else we are interested in the university functioning as simply and smoothly as possible. But it is not us that dictates the political control or the legal framework within which we work. And you will therefore not solve the problems by just getting rid of the bureaucrats. Like all the other job profiles at UCPH, we do a lot of work every day so that the whole UCPH machine can run smoothly,\u00ab\u00a0 says Signe M\u00f8ller Johansen.<\/p>\n

Translated by Mike Young<\/em>
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researchers are increasingly taking care of administrative tasks, the administration is running the university itself."},{"acf_fc_layout":"Standfirst","subject":"","text":"While the number of staff at secretary level has been almost halved at the University of Copenhagen, the number of senior consultants has tripled. But this has not made work easier for researchers. According to critics, they spend too much time on administrative tasks.","use_post_excerpt":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"Byline","is_author":true,"contributors":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>he number of high salary administrative specialists has exploded at the University of Copenhagen in recent years. At the same time, there are now fewer secretaries and less <secret text=\"Members of the second largest trade union in Denmark, HK Danmark.\">clerical\/office staff<\/secret>.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to a new survey of the trends in staffing at Danish universities that, for the first time, maps out which parts of the administration have grown, and which parts have been cut back.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbA mobilisation has taken place. The administration at the universities used to be largely subjected to the researchers. Today, the universities are professionally managed organizations that need to be able to tackle corporations like Novo Nordisk, the publishers of international rankings, and the Danish parliament. This requires an administration consisting of finance experts, lawyers, communication heads and senior consultants, and this is why we see this significant trend,\u00ab says Andreas Kj\u00e6r Stage, who is PhD student at the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University.<\/p>\n<p>He and Kaare Aagaard from Political Science at Aarhus University have mapped out the trends in the composition of staff at the country\u2019s universities. It has just been published in the<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10734-019-00362-y\"> journal ‘Higher Education’<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many of the job titles did not exist 20 years ago. Today, they are ‘the new normal’<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">PhD student Andreas Kj\u00e6r Stage, Aarhus University<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At the University of Copenhagen, the so-called elite administration has tripled since 1999, while secretaries and those with office or clerical professions, which have traditionally worked in the central administration and at the departments, have been reduced by 42 per cent. The same applies to the number of technicians and laboratory technicians, that has fallen drastically. In 1999 they accounted for 28.1 per cent of the total staff at the University of Copenhagen. In 2017 the group had been reduced to 15.4 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThe growing group of administrative specialists consists of <secret text=\"General category denoting members of the large Danish trade union Dj\u00f8f.\">lawyers and economists<\/secret> in highly paid management positions and project positions with titles like ‘senior consultant’, ‘specialist consultant’ and ‘coordinator’. Many of the job titles did not exist 20 years ago. Today, they are ‘the new normal’,\u00ab says Andreas Kj\u00e6r Stage.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Image","image":{"ID":84461,"id":84461,"title":"Fig. 7_administration","filename":"fig.7administration.png","filesize":86930,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/fig.7administration.png","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/den-administrative-elite-har-indtaget-universiteterne\/fig-7_administration\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"Figuren viser if\u00f8lge Andreas Kj\u00e6r Stage flere ting. P\u00e5 den ene side viser den overgangen fra en 'top-tung' til en 'bund-tung' videnskabelig arbejdsstyrke, hvor l\u00f8stansatte juniorforskere (fx postdocer) i dag udg\u00f8r majoriteten. P\u00e5 den anden side, viser den overgangen til en administration med f\u00e6rre \u201dbillige\u201d HK\u2019ere\/teknikere i bunden og med flere dyre universitetsuddannede, der i dag n\u00e6rmest udg\u00f8r en klassisk pyramide-formet hierarki. Samlet ses det, at forskerne og administratorerne er ret ens, n\u00e5r det g\u00e6lder den l\u00f8n, de f\u00e5r, hvor forskerne f\u00f8rhen fik langt mere i snit.","name":"fig-7_administration","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":84577,"date":"2019-04-09 10:25:03","modified":"2019-04-15 10:35:45","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2244,"height":1299,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/fig.7administration-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/fig.7administration-480x278.png","medium-width":480,"medium-height":278,"medium_large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/fig.7administration-768x445.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":445,"large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/fig.7administration-1280x741.png","large-width":1280,"large-height":741,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/fig.7administration.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":889,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/fig.7administration.png","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1186,"featured-soft":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/fig.7administration-290x168.png","featured-soft-width":290,"featured-soft-height":168,"featured-hard":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/fig.7administration-290x180.png","featured-hard-width":290,"featured-hard-height":180,"narrow":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/fig.7administration-700x405.png","narrow-width":700,"narrow-height":405,"extended":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/fig.7administration-990x573.png","extended-width":990,"extended-height":573}},"style":"extended","text_placement":"metadata-right","image_link_url":"","image_link_title":"","caption_prefix":"","enable_alternative_caption":true,"alternative_caption":"According to Andreas Kj\u00e6r Stage, the figure illustrates several things. On the one hand, it illustrates the transition from a 'top-heavy' to a 'bottom-heavy' scientific workforce, where temporarily employed junior researchers (e.g. postdocs) make up the majority. On the other hand, it illustrates the transition to an administration with fewer of the \u2018cheap\u2019 office staff\/technician positions at the bottom, and with more expensive university-educated employees, which almost looks like a classic pyramid-shaped hierarchy. It appears that researchers and administrators are similar in terms of salary, while researchers used to get much more on average."},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>He says the group also consists of an increase in the number of communications staff who help management with PR and strategic communication. Here, you can distinguish between the people working in the University of Copenhagen’s central communications department at N\u00f8rregade, and the approximately <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/ku-bruger-to-milliarder-om-aaret-paa-administratorer\/\">100 communications staff that are distributed among faculties and departments at UCPH<\/a> where they help researchers communicate their findings and results. This is a communication effort which has been estimated to cost the University of Copenhagen DKK 63.5 million in 2015.<\/p>\n<h2>Office staff could do the tasks<\/h2>\n<p>Ingrid Kryhlmand, who is staff representative for clerical staff members of the University of Copenhagen, has followed this development closely.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The way I see it,\u00a0 it is completely unreasonable to hire highly paid senior consultants to do administrative operational assignments that other office staff are trained to take care of.<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Ingrid Kryhlmand, staff representative for office\/clerical employees<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She was employed as a medical secretary at the University of Copenhagen in 1987 and has since then seen how the administration has grown rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbBack then, there was one lawyer, one economist and one office staff member in the secretariat for the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. Today, there are 400 administrative employees, of which at least 200 are\u00a0 <secret text=\"Employees with a higher education.\">professional and managerial staff<\/secret>,\u00ab says Ingrid Kryhlmand.<\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\">\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">Salaries in the UCPH administration<\/p>\n<p>Dean: DKK 115,105<\/p>\n<p>Head of division DKK 69,540<\/p>\n<p>Head of administration\u00a0 DKK 63,740<\/p>\n<p>Senior executive officer DKK 60,559<\/p>\n<p>Finance consultant: DKK 55,519<\/p>\n<p>HR consultant DKK 52,964<\/p>\n<p>Senior consultant DKK 50,798<\/p>\n<p>Section secretary: DKK 36,991<\/p>\n<p>Secretary DKK 35,196<\/p>\n<p>Medical secretary DKK 33,739<\/p>\n<p><em>The numbers are from 2018 and show the average monthly salary for employees at UCPH in Danish kroner (DKK) including pensions, supplementary allowances, and one-off remunerations, but excluding holiday pay, remuneration for special holidays and redundancy payments.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The growing administration should be seen in relation to the fact that the University of Copenhagen admits many more students today than 20 years ago, and that the faculties are growing. According to Ingrid Kryhlmand, there is more than enough to do for the many many administrative staff. In other words, it is not so much a question of the administration in itself growing, but more a question of <em>who<\/em> it is that is doing the administering, and whether they are worth the money:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbI find it atrocious that so many heads of office, deputy directors, senior consultants, senior consultants, senior executive officers and middle managers who have turned up over the past 10-15 years. This is a huge layer of middle management, and it is in itself fostering far more administrative tasks than before. You have to ask yourself whether it is necessary with all these middle managers. Are we getting value for money?\u00ab she asks.<\/p>\n<p>Ingrid Kryhlmand says that many of the tasks that the professional\/managerial employees do today are exactly the same tasks that were previously taken care of by office\/clerk staff\u00a0 \u2013 but at a lower salary.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbWhen an office staff member stops, you often see an automatic search for an employee at the professional\/managerial level, or at best, a double job advert. If you look at, say, the most recent job advertisements for academic staff in a professional\/managerial position at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, the job description is administrative assignments, and they do not contain any significant academic assignments. The way I see it,\u00a0 it is completely unreasonable to hire highly paid senior consultants to do administrative operational assignments that other office staff are trained to take care of,\u00ab she says.<\/p>\n<p>Ingrid Kryhlmand call it the “Huey, Dewey and Louie effect” and says that it is the reason why the number of senior consultants has tripled, while there are fewer and fewer administrative staff:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThe managers are themselves academics and find it hard to see that other groups can perform the work as well. They are most comfortable hiring someone who looks like themselves.\u00ab<\/p>\n<h2>Administrative tasks land on the researchers’ desks<\/h2>\n<p>A senior consultant at the University of Copenhagen gets an average of DKK 50,798 in pay, while a secretary gets DKK 35,196 (both including pension). The question is whether there are too many expensive senior consultants in the administration. and whether they are at the expense of office and clerical staff that have been cut back in the departments?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A lot of our research takes place in our leisure time. But we now also use our leisure time to do administrative work<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Allan Randrup Thomsen, professor and staff representative for Danish specialist doctors<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00bbOut in the departments, there has been a tendency for tasks to be pushed over to the scientific staff every time they cut back on a traditional secretary position. We use a disproportionately large amount of our time on administrative work,\u00ab says Professor of Experimental Virology at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Allan Randrup Thomsen, who is staff representative for the Danish specialist doctors\u2019 association.<\/p>\n<p>Allan Randrup Thomsen says it is absurd that scientific staff have to spend time on administrative work which was previously done far more efficiently by technical\/administrative staff at a much lower salary. The administration is a burden on the research and teaching, as it means that there is less time for the core tasks.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThe consequence of the increase in administrative tasks which we now have to take care of, is that it takes time from our research and what we have actually been recruited and trained to do. We don\u2019t have enough time as it is. A lot of our research takes place in our leisure time. But we now also use our leisure time to do administrative work,\u00ab Allan Randrup Thomsen says.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is, to take the travel reimbursement system \u2018RejsUd\u2019 system as an example, it takes up an unnecessary amount of time because the scientific staff do not have the routine in doing the registration on it. And at the same time a large number of hours is spent completing forms and sending invoices back and forwards in the system.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbIt is often double work, because it still ends up having to be handed over to a secretary. Either because you’ve done it wrong, or because the registration needs to be checked somewhere else in the system,\u00ab\u00a0 says Allan Randrup Thomsen. He questions whether the large amounts of internal administration are actually needed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbIn many contexts you can ask yourself whether the treatment is commensurate with the diagnosis? To a certain extent, we as a university help create internal administration. We generally have a very bureaucratic way of solving things, and it requires a lot of administrative resources,\u00ab he says.<\/p>\n<h2>Cheaper administration in per cent<\/h2>\n<p>According to director Jesper Olesen of the University of Copenhagen, it is quite natural that there has been growth in the administration relative to 20 years ago. He points out that the administration percentage overall is declining. And that the University of Copenhagen’ scientific staff (VIP) \/ technical-administrative staff (TAP) ratio is also unchanged over the last 10 years. Something that does not hold for other Danish universities like the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The university has grown. There has therefore also been growth in the administration. But if we look at the figures and compare with the university’s total costs, we use a lower proportion of money on administration today than before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Director of University of Copenhagen, Jesper Olesen<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00bbThe university has grown. There has therefore also been growth in the administration. But if we look at the figures and compare with the university’s total costs, we use a lower proportion of money on administration today than before,\u00ab says Jesper Olesen.<\/p>\n<p>He believes that the increase in the number of senior consultants relative to office\/clerical employees has to do with the university becoming a more complex organisation.<\/p>\n<p>“Financial management and the other administrative tasks have become more complex and require a higher level of education than office\/clerical staff have. At the same time, technological developments have led to many of the tasks that office\/clerical employees had previously, being replaced by self-service systems which have rendered many of the positions obsolete,,\u00ab says Jesper Olesen.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you understand the professors who complain that they spend too much of their time on administrative tasks, and that they need a secretary who would be able to do the job twice as fast for half the salary?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00bbI understand the frustration of many researchers having to carry out administrative tasks, that they are not trained for. But you should remember that the perceived burden does not always match the savings that you actually achieve,\u00ab says Jesper Olesen.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Image","image":{"ID":84462,"id":84462,"title":"Fig. 4_administration","filename":"fig.4administration.png","filesize":59487,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/fig.4administration.png","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/den-administrative-elite-har-indtaget-universiteterne\/fig-4_administration\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"Her ses sammens\u00e6tningen af personalet p\u00e5 tre danske universiteter. Det fremg\u00e5r, at eliteadministrationen er vokset p\u00e5 dem alle, mens gruppen af sekret\u00e6rer og teknikere er skrumpet. Grafen viser ogs\u00e5, at K\u00f8benhavns Universitet modsat DTU og CBS har form\u00e5et at holde andelen af lektorer og professorer stabil. I det hele taget er andelen af forskere h\u00f8jest og voksende i perioden p\u00e5 KU.","name":"fig-4_administration","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":84577,"date":"2019-04-09 10:25:06","modified":"2019-04-11 09:22:03","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2126,"height":1417,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/fig.4administration-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/fig.4administration-480x320.png","medium-width":480,"medium-height":320,"medium_large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/fig.4administration-768x512.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/fig.4administration-1280x853.png","large-width":1280,"large-height":853,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/fig.4administration.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/fig.4administration.png","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1365,"featured-soft":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/fig.4administration-290x193.png","featured-soft-width":290,"featured-soft-height":193,"featured-hard":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/fig.4administration-290x180.png","featured-hard-width":290,"featured-hard-height":180,"narrow":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/fig.4administration-700x467.png","narrow-width":700,"narrow-height":467,"extended":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/fig.4administration-990x660.png","extended-width":990,"extended-height":660}},"style":"extended","text_placement":"metadata-left","image_link_url":"","image_link_title":"","caption_prefix":"","enable_alternative_caption":true,"alternative_caption":"Here is the composition of the staff at three Danish universities. It can be seen that the elite administration has grown on all of them, while the group of secretaries and technicians has been reduced. The graph also shows that the University of Copenhagen, unlike DTU and CBS has managed to keep the proportion of associate professors and professors at a stable level. In general, the proportion of researchers has grown at UCPH at the fastest rate."},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>Jesper Olesen says it is about financing and the prioritisation of resources.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbIn the perfect world I would prefer researchers used 95 per cent of their time on research and education, and that it was office and clerical staff that did the administrative work. But the calculation is not that simple. Secretaries do not just cost half in terms of salary. They also cost the space they take up, and at the University of Copenhagen the price per square metre is expensive,\u00ab says Jesper Olesen.<\/p>\n<p>He points out that technological development is also the reason why many laboratory technician positions have been cut in recent years:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbInstead of laboratory technicians, we now have robots that are handled by employees with a different education background. At the same time, we have many more PhDs today that solve many of the tasks in the laboratories which were previously carried out laboratory technicians,\u00ab says Jesper Olesen.<\/p>\n<h2>Not evil bureaucrats<\/h2>\n<p>Staff representative for technical\/administrative staff Signe M\u00f8ller Johansen is one of the many senior consultants who has been employed in recent years at the University of Copenhagen. She was employed 11 years ago and has seen how universities have become more micro-managed with more rules and regulations:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThe more regulations, the more there is to administer. There is a good deal of complexity in the systems, laws and regulations, that we are subject to as a university. And there is tighter political control of the universities, which means that we need to produce numbers and reports, and achieve targets to a much larger extent than previously. The boom in externally funded research has also had an impact, because it has set off more administration in the field of research,\u00ab says Signe M\u00f8ller Johansen.<\/p>\n<p>She does not know much about what the new group of senior consultants can do that office\/clerical staff can\u2019t. But she points out that senior consultants are a diverse group that take on a wide variety of tasks, and who work in all corners of the organisation \u2013 in research groups, at departments and faculties, and in the central administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbIf you think that the senior consultants only work with administration and that they are all in the central administration, then you are mistaken. Things are far more complex,\u00ab says Signe M\u00f8ller Johansen.<\/p>\n<p>Senior consultants are roughly divided into three groups. There are the specialists who contribute to research and education and that typically included in the research teams or who are in the administration as experts in legal issues, external funding, IT, construction or budget management.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbIn addition, there is a large group of professional managers or coordinators, who can be anything from laboratory managers, research coordinators, team coordinators or managers of student counsellors. And finally, there is the group of experienced generalists, who typically work as project managers or strategy consultants with interdisciplinary projects and processes across UCPH,\u00ab\u00a0 says Signe M\u00f8ller Johansen.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It’s not that senior consultants in the administration are just evil bureaucrats. Just like anyone else we are interested in the university functioning as simply and smoothly as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Signe M\u00f8ller Johansen, staff representative for professionals\/managers group at UCPH<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Her impression is that the tasks for the technical-administrative staff have changed over the years, and that the composition of the workforce has therefore also changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbI think everyone will agree that there is too much political control and too much bureaucracy. It’s not that senior consultants in the administration are just evil bureaucrats. Just like anyone else we are interested in the university functioning as simply and smoothly as possible. But it is not us that dictates the political control or the legal framework within which we work. And you will therefore not solve the problems by just getting rid of the bureaucrats. Like all the other job profiles at UCPH, we do a lot of work every day so that the whole UCPH machine can run smoothly,\u00ab\u00a0 says Signe M\u00f8ller Johansen.<\/p>\n<p><em>Translated by Mike Young<\/em><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Newsletter","lang_select":"Dansk","identifier":"Newsletter","headline":"Receive a weekly newsletter in your inbox","button_text":"Tilmeld nu","class":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":true,"references":[{"reference":{"ID":21719,"post_author":"12","post_date":"2010-11-06 12:26:08","post_date_gmt":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","post_content":"Danish universities, including the University of Copenhagen, have taken advantage of more government money 2005-2009 to hire an extra layer of high-salaried managers.\r\n\r\nThis is the controversial claim by a study presented at the Danish Association of Masters and PhDs (DM). The study, called \u2018Follow the Money\u2019, scores a direct hit on University of Copenhagen claims that its administration has slimmed down: The relative size of admin at Danish universities, including the University of Copenhagen, has actually increased over the last seven years, it says.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"node\/7443\">Read 'Universities swamped in paperwork and bureaucrats'.<\/a>\r\n\r\nProfessor Sue Wright of the Danish Pedagogical University and Rebecca Boden of the University of Wales Institute Cardiff have tracked the funding from the Danish treasury to the universities over the last seven years. Government financing of the country's universities rose by 40 per cent between 2003 and 2009 in nominal terms. At the same time, and alarming to both taxpayers and academics, the proportion of Danish universities' costs going to administration has gone up, not down.\r\n\r\n<h2>Wages like a prime minister<\/h2>\r\nAnd there is more.\r\n\r\nIn terms of the national average, Copenhagen is one of the university heavyweights. According to the two researchers, the University of Copenhagen\u2019s cost of administration as a proportion of total costs rose from 21.49 per cent in 2005 to 24.13 per cent in 2009.\r\n\r\n\u00bbIf the 2009 proportion of costs going to administration had kept itself at 2005 levels, the University of Copenhagen could have hired 339 academic posts,\u00ab writes Sue Wright in an e-mail to the University Post and Universitetsavisen.\r\n\r\nThe higher costs for administration are not, or not just, a result of more admin staff being hired in support of academics, according to Rebecca Boden and Sue Wright. It is the result of larger salaries to a bigger layer of senior managers.\r\n\r\nAccording to their figures, the average cost of each person classified as technical administrative personnel (TAP) at the University of Copenhagen rose from DKK 296,000 in 2005 to DKK 411,000 in 2009. \r\n\r\n\u00bbThis implies that the increase in expenditure on administration is not simply because more TAPs are employed, but because some are employed on very high salaries, to such an extent that the average cost per TAP has risen by 38.8 per cent,\u00ab Sue Wright writes. \r\n\r\n<h2>Lured with big money<\/h2>\r\nOr, as Rebecca Boden put it at the conference referring to Danish universities as a whole:\r\n\r\n\u00bbRectors are being paid football player salaries, and their pay is sucking resources out of research and teaching\u00ab.\r\n\r\n\u00c5rhus University recently advertised for a new Dean in the Times Supplement for Higher Education. He or she will in this case be \u00bbbetter paid than the UK Prime Minister,\u00ab Rebecca Boden says.\r\n\r\nThe average Vice-chancellor (corresponding to Rector, ed.) salary among UK universities, including a number of small colleges, is DKK 1.8 million. According to a recent review by the Danish section of this newspaper, the University of Copenhagen rector earns DKK 1.98 million.\r\n\r\n<h2>Director: They got it wrong<\/h2>\r\nThe University of Copenhagen management has in this, and in a previous issue, opted not to comment management salaries. But claims of ballooning administration costs, at least at the University of Copenhagen, are off-target, counters finance director Antonio Castrone.\r\n\r\nBoden and Wright have got their figures wrong, and their study is skewed, he claims.\r\nSalaries to technical and administrative personnel (TAP) were 22.9 per cent of University of Copenhagen\u2019s expenses in 2008, and it is expected to fall to 22 per cent this year. Academics, or VIPs in the terminology, have had their share of salaries rise, he says.\r\n\r\n\u00bbThis is a clear signal that things are not at all as bad as the researchers conclude, and that the study is out of line with University of Copenhagen reality. Expenses are being moved from administration directly over to research and education,\u00ab says Antonino Castrone.\r\n\r\nUniversity of Copenhagen management maintains that it has saved DKK 120 million in administration since 2007.\r\n\r\nTo add to this, the proportion of staff working as technical and administrative personnel (TAP) in the University of Copenhagen has dropped, not risen. In 2005 there were eight per cent more staff defined as technical- administrative personnel than academics. But using the same definitions there are now seven per cent more academics than administrators, Castrone claims. \r\n\r\n\u00bbIn the survey, they have most likely not corrected for definitional and organisational changes,\u00ab he says.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"node\/7549\">Read how finance director Castrone's interprets the administration data here.<\/a>\r\n\r\n<h2>Just following policy<\/h2>\r\nIn the case of Copenhagen, it seems the study authors and the finance director cannot reach agreement.\r\n\r\nBut if the study holds water, and manager salaries are boosting administration costs relative to research and teaching, the university has just been following Danish government policy, according to Sue Wright.\r\n\r\nIn line with trends from New Zealand, Australia the UK and the US, the 2003 University Law had universities develop as corporations with a highly paid professional management, turning universities into managed organisations within the \u2018aim and frame\u2019 outline set by government. \r\n\r\nBut this policy is ripe for criticism.\r\n\r\n\u00bbIn the UK and US there are now strong criticisms about the high percentage of taxpayers\u2019 funding that is used to develop a new cadre of highly paid leaders and performance managers \u2013 paid more than the Prime Minister in the UK - rather than using public funding to increase the universities\u2019 core public functions of teaching and research,\u00ab she says.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"node\/7443\">Read previous article 'Universities swamped in paperwork and bureaucrats',<\/a> and <a href=\"node\/7549\">'Copenhagen not bloated with staff, says director', here.<\/a>\r\n\r\nmiy@adm.ku.dk\r\n\r\n<em>Stay in the know about news and events happening in Copenhagen by <a href=\"http:\/\/universitypost.dk\/newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">signing up for the University Post\u2019s weekly newsletter here<\/a>.<\/em>\n","post_title":"Copenhagen University administrators get football player salaries","post_excerpt":"University administration costs have run wild, shows new study. 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