Politics

Ministers’ Vienna waltz out of step

Critical reports from EU Commission and European university lobbyists come at the worst possible time

New minister had no idea

Charlotte Sahl-Madsen was not expecting to be offered the post of Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, until yesterday. Now she is the government minister responsible for universities

Helge Sander loses minister post

New minister for the universities, as Minister of Science Helge Sander loses out in major government shake-up

No more online news at CBS

Over a million kroner down the drain, as one of Denmark’s last independent university newspapers lays its digital version to rest

Staff reps play hard ball

No new prorector while university employees are being fired, insist staff representatives on the University of Copenhagen's General Collaboration Committee. Defying management plans, they refuse to nominate a candidate for the job

Firing at home, hiring abroad

The University of Copenhagen is firing its own staff while actively seeking international PhDs. This apparent paradox has a simple explanation, according to the Faculty Director of Life Sciences

82 employees named for layoffs

Rector Ralf Hemmingsen has informed the university board of the exact number of University of Copenhagen employees to be fired. This was at a board meeting yesterday Tuesday

Student Council: Rector owes us some answers

Both the Rector and the Student Council want an alternative model of university funding. Nonetheless, student politicians feel that the Rector ought to discuss the outlook for subjects hit by cutbacks

Students block access to key university buildings

Hundreds of students have since early Monday morning blockaded key departments at the University of Copenhagen, protesting cutbacks and the shedding of jobs

Is the burqa report scientifically sound?

»Swindle and humbug« and »amateurish«. Pia Kjærsgaard of the right-wing Dansk Folkeparti [Danish People’s Party, ed.] and Conservative politician Naser Khader were pulling no punches, after the controversial burqa report was made public. Experts in scientific theory and method defend the University of Copenhagen researchers who compiled the report, and say that the criticism is political.

Danish students protest privatisation plans

The National Union of Students in Denmark has reacted to Science Minister Helge Sander’s plans to privatise Danish universities with an emphatic thumbs down. And they have called him a liar.

Only three women in Denmark wear burqa

The number of Muslim women in Denmark who wear the burqa can be counted on one hand, according to the newly released results of a new study conducted by the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Cross-Cultural and Religious Studies

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University of Copenhagen to count burqas

No miracles at the Department of Biology

The staff at the Department of Biology took it with a healthy amount of calm and gallows humour, as the Head of the Department explained that a lot of people will have to be let go for the second year in a row. DKK 16 million will need to be saved this time

Pachauri talks climate for beginners

When chairman of a Nobel Prize winning institution talks about climate change, you expect it to be inspiring. Unfortunately, Dr. Rajendra Pachauri of the IPCC, speaking at the University of Copenhagen Tuesday, failed to deliver

»All my bets are on a climate agreement«

Will a watered-down global climate agreement do more harm than good? Why not try radical geo-engineering solutions if disaster is looming? The University Post interviews German climate scientist Hans Joachim Schellnhuber to get some answers

Down and out at the alternative climate conference

Packing up for the evening, the University Post looked disapprovingly at the paper chucked around

Staff offered one months extra pay to leave

University board passes budget that will mean cutting 130 jobs. Affected staff will get to January to consider going voluntarily