THE COMMITTEE FOR MASTER’S DEGREE PROGRAMMES IN NEW INTERIM REPORT: IN THE FUTURE, ONE IN FOUR STUDENTS MIGHT HAVE A SHORT MASTER'S DEGREE

20 June 2024 Article

The universities do not believe that converting 20 per cent of admissions to Master's degree programmes for working professionals is attainable. As a result, many more students than anticipated might end up taking a one-year Master’s programme. All rector’s agree that the premise regarding labour supply must be changed.

19 June 2024 Article

Health has a new set of principles for gender-neutral language: Replace embedsmand with embedsperson

At the Faculty of Health, gendered terms such as formand, talsmand or mandskab are going to be a thing of the past. The faculty has introduced principles for gender-neutral language to increase gender equality, explains Dean Anne-Mette Hvas. The principles are not rules, but the dean hopes that they will become the new norm.

07 June 2024 Article

LEADING GENOMICS RESEARCHER RESIGNS FROM AU FOLLOWING THE UNIVERSITY’S DECISION TO STOP COLLABORATION WITH CHINA

AU’s decision to ban collaboration with researchers working in the area of genome sequencing in China affects many researchers at the Department of Biomedicine. Professors at the department with connections to BGI cannot understand the decision, and Professor Lars Bolund has recently resigned as a result of it. Another researcher fears that the university will miss out on research funding.

07 June 2024 Opinion

OPINION: We need clear and transparent guidelines and procedures for handling sexism and abuse

A recent report from the research and analysis center VIVE documents that sexism and unwanted sexual behavior are a sad reality for many PhD students at Danish universities. Universities must take responsibility and ensure that there are independent, safe, and trustworthy ways for PhD students to report incidents without fear of reprisals, write PhD student Signe Vogel and PhD student Sofie Abildgaard Jacobsen on behalf of the PhD Association – Health.

30 May 2024 Article

DANMARKSHISTORIEN.DK HANDED OVER TO LEX: “AU IS LETTING GO OF ONE OF ITS ACES”

As a result of strained finances, the school management team at the School of Culture and Society has decided to hand over danmarkshistorien.dk to Lex, Denmark's national encyclopaedia. However, employees from the school’s history department are urgently calling for a reversal of the decision, citing the platform's unique role as a tool for communicating research to a broad audience and the branding it lends to AU.

24 May 2024 Article

AU EMPLOYEES TO TAKE PART IN AARHUS PRIDE

We need to show that AU is a place for everybody, regardless of our background, gender identity or sexual orientation, says Caroline Adolphsen, who is one of the people behind the initiative to represent AU in Aarhus Pride this year. The initiative is supported by the senior management team and student organisations.

23 May 2024 Article

NEW RESEARCHER MOVEMENT WITH BOARD MEMBERS FROM AU WANTS TO “SET RESEARCH FREE”: “HOW ARE RESEARCHERS SUPPOSED TO THINK FREELY WHEN EVERYTHING IS SYSTEMATISED?”

A new researcher movement with over 100 researchers from universities across Denmark has been formed to promote academic freedom. AU researcher Steen Nepper Larsen, who is one of the board members, expects that the movement will work to get the University Act revised and to change research funding.