Archive
Omnibus. June 2024
- 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
- HEALTH HAS A NEW SET OF PRINCIPLES FOR GENDER-NEUTRAL LANGUAGE: REPLACE EMBEDSMAND WITH EMBEDSPERSON
- LEADING GENOMICS RESEARCHER RESIGNS FROM AU FOLLOWING THE UNIVERSITY’S DECISION TO STOP COLLABORATION WITH CHINA
- OPINION: WE NEED CLEAR AND TRANSPARENT GUIDELINES AND PROCEDURES FOR HANDLING SEXISM AND ABUSE
Omnibus. May 2024
- DANMARKSHISTORIEN.DK HANDED OVER TO LEX: “AU IS LETTING GO OF ONE OF ITS ACES”
- AU EMPLOYEES TO TAKE PART IN AARHUS PRIDE
- NEW RESEARCHER MOVEMENT WITH BOARD MEMBERS FROM AU WANTS TO “SET RESEARCH FREE”: “HOW ARE RESEARCHERS SUPPOSED TO THINK FREELY WHEN EVERYTHING IS SYSTEMATISED?”
- SLIM PICKINGS AT THREE AU CANTEENS OVER THE SUMMER: CURRENT OPERATOR IS STOPPING
Omnibus. April 2024
- FROM DEPUTY JUDGE TO PHD STUDENT: "I STILL WANT TO PURSUE MY CAREER, BUT IT CAN WAIT A LITTLE BIT
- NEW DEAN AT NAT IS A CHEMISTRY PROFESSOR WITH A GOOD EYE FOR THE BALL
- AU TURNS DKK 292 MILLION DEFICIT INTO DKK 262 MILLION SURPLUS
- 23-YEAR-OLD PHD STUDENT AND CITIZEN OF THE WORLD: MY FRIENDS CALL ME MISS WORLDWIDE
Omnibus. March 2024
- SURVEY: SEXISM TOWARDS PHD STUDENTS IS WIDESPREAD AT AARHUS UNIVERSITY
- MORE THAN 500 RESEAECHERS RESIGN FROM JOURNAL IN PROTEST AGAINST PUBLISHERS
- LARGE INCREASE IN QUOTA 2 APPLICATIONS: OVER 10 PERCENT MORE APPLICANTS TO AU DEGREE PROGRAMMES THAN LAST YEAR
- OPINION: VICE-DEAN: WE MUST SAFEGUARD THE FREE MOVEMENT OF RESEARCH – PET’S CAMPAIGN WILL NOT CHANGE THIS
- EVA KJÆRGAARD FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY SCOOPS BOTH PRIZES AT THIS YEAR’S THREE MINUTE THESIS COMPETITION
- OPINION: PET CAMPAIGN IS TROUBLING – RESEARCH SHOULD BE FREELY DISSEMINATED, NOT PROTECTED
- WINNER OF ELITE RESEARCH PRIZE: "WE NEED A BROAD KNOWLEDGE BASE TO DRAW ON WHEN THE WORLD DEVELOPS IN UNFORESEEN WAYS"
- THE NUMBER OF AU STUDENTS RECEIVING SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT HAS DOUBLED IN TEN YEARS
Omnibus. February 2024
- NEW RESEARCH SECURITY RULES ON THE WAY AT AU: “THE UNIVERSITY’S JOB ISN’T CATCHING SPIES – BUT WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THEY CAN’T ACCESS OUR RESEARCH
- PET POSTERS WARN OF SPIES AT DANISH UNIVERSITIES – BUT MANY RESEARCHERS HAVE CRITICISED THE CAMPAIGN
- THEY’VE BEEN WAITING FOR MONTHS: CASE BACKLOG SLOWS DOWN HELP FOR STUDENTS WITH FUNCTIONAL IMPAIRMENTS
- SUNE HUNG UP HIS CARPENTRY TOOLS TO PURSUE HIS ACADEMIC DREAM: "I HAD ONE SHOT TO CHANGE MY LIFE"
Omnibus. January 2024
- 26-YEAR-OLD PHYSICS PHD: “I CAN’T SEE MYSELF WORKING AT THE UNIVERSITY”
- SNOW CHAOS CANCELLED SLEWS OF EXAMS AT SHORT NOTICE: AU RESPONDS WITH DECISION TO DRAFT CONTINGENCY PLAN
- AU HISTORIANS GUIDE YOU THROUGH THE DANISH HISTORY – THE ONLINE COURSE IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE
- FORMER AU EMPLOYEE SENTENCED FOR DISPOSING OF HUMAN HEAD IN WASTE BIN
- AU – AND THE ROYAL CONNECTION
Omnibus. December 2023
Omnibus. November 2023
Omnibus. september 2023
- COLUMN: WHAT WE LOSE ON THE STOCK MARKET WE TAKE FROM OPERATIONS – DON’T WE?
- AU RESEARCHER CAPTURES CENSURED VOICES FROM CHINESE SOCIAL MEDIA AND GIVES THEM NEW LIFE AS ART
- NOT MANY PEOPLE USING AU’S CARPOOLING SCHEME: 258 TRIPS IN JUST UNDER A YEAR
- POINT OF VIEW: WHEN A DATA SCIENTIST RUNS THE DHL RELAY RUN ...
Omnibus. August 2023
Omnibus. July 2023
- 7,383 NEW STUDENTS HAVE BEEN OFFERED A PLACE AT AU: THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROGRAMMES ARE STILL STRUGGLING – WHILE PROGRAMMES TAUGHT IN ENGLISH HAVE GROWN
- "I STARTED WITH ANDREAS, AND NOW I'M BACK TO ANDREAS": FORMER AU STUDENT TO HANDLE MOGENSEN'S COMMUNICATION DURING SPACE MISSION
- EARLY-CAREER AU RESEARCHER WINS MAJOR GRANT: EXPLORING HISTORY TO MAKE THE PRESENT STRANGE
Omnibus. June 2023
- Rector: “I hope the politicians have satisfied their desire to reform the university sector almost ritually every year
- Research leadership team now in place for the new Danish democracy and power study
- The Danish School of Education is merging departments and pausing degree programmes after last year’s layoffs: smallest programmes affected
- A satellite built by AU students in orbit around Earth: Preparations for a new AU space project begin
- AU professor to head new Danish democracy and power study: "The joints of our democracy are starting to creak a bit
- The Regatta and two learning environments at AU have been nominated for ‘Best in Aarhus’ awards
- PhD student from AU wins international final of Three Minute Thesis
Omnibus. February 2023
- AU investigates whether PhD students from China are subject to unreasonable contractual terms – including the requirement to stay loyal to the regime
- COLUMN: Pro-rector: It would be irresponsible of us to ignore ChatGPT
- The AUforsker Twitter account has gone into hibernation after ten years: "Twitter sucks"
- Nine AU researchers are among the most cited experts in Denmark in 2022
Omnibus. January 2023
- Students helping students at Studenterlinjen.
- Students want more – lecturers feel they’re already giving more than enough: Why we need a feedback revolution
- New university director has made a career at AU: “When I left the university in 2001, I didn’t imagine I’d be back”
- The AI chatbots are coming for your exam paper
Omnibus. December 2022
- The university chaplains invite all students to a Christmas Eve celebration at Studenterhuset
- Nineteen employees to leave DPU in large-scale cutbacks: eleven voluntary and eight involuntary redundancies
- Are you completely on top of the exam rules? More than 200 cases of exam cheating last year – many are due to ignorance
Omnibus. November 2022
Omnibus. October 2022
Omnibus. July 2022
Omnibus. June 2022
- Opinion: Time to support the students calling out sexism at the Kapsejlads
- Hundreds of researchers have signed an open letter to get politicians to examine freedom of research
- Two AU researchers are Danish champions in wine tasting: “Blind tasting is an intellectual challenge”
- ”I can look inside your heart”
Omnibus. April 2022
Omnibus. March 2022
- Two AU colleagues start a fundraiser for Ukraine
- AU researchers suspend collaboration with Russia: A strong signal – but it will affect our work
- OPINION: International Women's Day will pass silently at Aarhus University this year – but there is plenty we should talk about
- Exchange student Laurids left Saint Petersburg on a FlixBus when Putin invaded Ukraine
- The relocation agreement is now in place: AU has succeeded in keeping relocations and cuts under six percent of student places
- AU reactions: Relocation agreement is met with both concern and enthusiasm
Omnibus. February 2022
Omnibus. September 2021
Omnibus. August 2021
Omnibus. March 2021
- Aarhus University reports threats against professor to the police
- AU students going the distance: Frederikke plays for Italian club ACF Fiorentia – Markus and Joakim are on course for the next Olympics
- New collective agreement for state employees is finalised
- Besenbacher disqualifies himself following case on scathing comments about AU researchers and interfering with the case
- Twenty-six researchers express “deep concern” about management’s handling of a case involving questionable research practices
- DEBATE: Does gender play a role in how much time we spend on our research?
- The herbarium at Aarhus University houses 750,000 plants from all over the world, spread across three floors – and new specimens are added each week
- Multi-million kroner grant will make 50,000 dried plants and seeds from all over the world accessible to all online
- Union reps in open letter: “Building strong research teams takes many, many years, but they can be destroyed in the blink of an eye by obtuse leadership”
- Budget cuts at the Faculty of Technical Sciences: Union representatives are surprised and criticise management for letting them down
- The reopening of the university: What we know so far
Omnibus. January 2021
- International PhD and postdoc during the pandemic: Settling in a new country via Zoom
- The Faculties of Natural Sciences and Technical Sciences: Women strongly outnumbered in permanent research positions in 9 of the 13 departments
- Looking at the figures: This is the gender distribution across all of AU’s departments and schools
- THEME: Faculty of Health is a magnet for women, but there are few at the top of the career ladder
- Denmark’s borders are closed to international students due to tighter Covid-19 restrictions
- Aarhus BSS: The common trait of five departments is imbalance – while the Department of Law has found a gender balance without putting in place active measures to achieve it
- Arts: One School is top of the class concerning gender balance – the other two are on the right track
Omnibus. December 2020
- Sexism at the university: what does this mean? And what has happened since 107 researchers from AU signed an open letter collectively calling for change
- #MeToo movement now being used to focus on sexism at Danish universities
- The Christmas party at AU is cancelled due to new covid19 restrictions – but the organisers have a plan B
Omnibus. November 2020
- Three out of 29 permanent members of academic staff are women. But the head of the department isn’t prepared to introduce quotas – that would discriminate against the men at the department
- All of the mink at Aarhus University’s experimental farm in Foulum have been put down. And 35 years of research just got “poured down the drain”
- Election time at AU: What are we voting on?
- OPINION: Female researcher’s piece on gender equality at AU was deleted: I didn’t want to paint a rosy picture. On the contrary
- Professor Dorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen: I am tired of reading AU action plans that do not address concerns that are important to me and the younger researchers I mentor
Omnibus. August 2020
- Campus Guide - Herning: Semester party with neighbors from VIA, quiet rooms at the library and accessible teachers
- Campus guide – Aarhus: Drink beer at the Friday bar instead of downtown, and get out and explore
- Campus guide – Emdrup: BarBund, semester start party and Den Gyldne Giraf
Omnibus. June 2020
- The reopening: Here’s where you can get something to eat at AU
- The reopening: Students are allowed to use reading rooms, group rooms and libraries again
- Foundation laid for a new Bjørn Nørgaard sculpture in the University Park
- The Aarhus University School of Engineering and the Department of Engineering to be dissolved and replaced by four new departments
Omnibus. January 2020
Omnibus. December 2019
- 1 December: "I can't wait to see Tivoli with all the Christmas lights"
- 2 December: BBQ, summer fruit, swimming and summertime
- 3 December: "I miss Norwegian Christmas food"
- 4 December: "Everything in moderation"
- To the point – calmly and tolerantly
- 5 December: Elfs – I can’t get my head around them ...
- 6 December: The first time, I danced around the Christmas tree I just thought: ‘What?’
- 7 December: I am not celebrating Christmas this year
- 8 December: Danes keep insisting that Santa lives in Greenland
- 9 December: "It is not the most traditional way of spending Christmas"
- 10 december "Dancing around the Christmas tree is weird"
- 11 December: Great food, Christmas movies and sauna
- 12 December: "It is pretty when the trees are covered in lights"
- 13 December: We are celebrating Christmas at our own house for the first time
- 14 December: The Christmas will be a big reunion
- 15 December: Christmas is a colourful combination of religious and secular practices
- 16 December: Everyone is happy and enjoying their time together
- How to survive Christmas in Denmark
- 17 December: Christmas is the cosiest event of the year
- 18 December: "I cannot stand Christmas shopping"
- 2019 in review: Student darkness, sustainability, elections, faculty fission – with a twist of beef
- 19 December: "Let's hope for the snow!"
- 20 December: There is too much focus on the materialistic
- 21 December: "My twin sister wins all the time!"
- 22 December: "There’s nothing more Christmassy than drinking Glühwein and eating Quarkbällchen"
- 23 December: "I think Christmas has become more commercial"
- 24 December: I wonder why Danes are so closed up and withdrawn during Christmas
- 25 December: A whisky for Santa and a carrot for the reindeer
Omnibus. November 2019
AU Garden: Green visions, dirty fingernails and a carpet of flower bulbs
- 2019 university elections: See the results here
- After eight years on AU’s board: “It’s good to see new faces on the board, but I’ve enjoyed being part of it”
- 2019 university elections: New board representative for non-academic staff flies drones and plans field trials
- The research reserve funds for 2020 have been allocated: 1.5 out of 1.9 billion kroner are earmarked for ‘green research’
- AU researcher is host of new show on Radio4
Omnibus. August 2019
- GUIDE: Meeting Denmark and the Danes: Good at English – and hard to get to know?
- Semester guide: Deadlines and events you don’t want to miss
- The Aarhus University Research Foundation invites everyone to a street party
- Insanely good – and an almost secret place to study
- A walk on the wild side in the University Park
Omnibus. May 2019.
- Mord or mor? Why it’s so hard to learn Danish
- Documented for the first time: Large numbers of clerical employees have been replaced by university graduates in AU’s administration But research hires have outpaced administrative hires over the past twenty years.
- The weirdest things about the Danes – through the eyes of AU internationals
Omnibus. April 2019.
- The rector “doesn’t know where that comes from”: there isn’t freedom of speech at AU, one in ten employees believes
- Train our managers in gender bias – and give girls female role models
- Almost half of AU’s employees don’t know about the university’s gender equality policy
- ‘Sick’ work environment at AU scares off female researchers
- AU’s rector: Gender quotas may become necessary
Omnibus. March 2019.
- AU entrepreneur: “I didn’t get paid the first two years, but now I get 1000 kroner”
- New AU Board members – the folk high school principal and the businesswoman
- Sustainability seminar: “Let’s be brave now. A CO2-neutral AU in five years”
- Connie Hedegaard:”Sustainability is part of being an ordinary well-informed person”
- Two AU med school grads develop popular app for medical students
- Two young astrophysicists started a company in a WW II barracks at AU, went viral and ended up on national television
- AU needs an entrepreneur factory
- “It’s not that I have anything against my research being used as such. That’s just not why I do research”
- Christian Wejse studies the world’s deadliest infectious diseases. But it’s so hard to raise funding for his research that he can’t keep his research station in West Africa open all the time
- He who pays the piper calls the tune. A guide to the research funding landscape in Denmark
- Three-fourths of competitive funding goes to the research elite
- What was it you said your research was about?
Omnibus. February 2019.
- Scammers use the names of AU employees in scams to cheat companies
- No more free Danish lessons for international employees
- Health is cutting back on external co-examination
- DEBATE: Does AU’s management not think their employees are good enough?
- A car-free campus? A ban on plastic cups? The Green Student Movement has wind in its sails – but still isn’t sure where it’s going
Omnibus. January 2019.
- The AU hotline is adding a chat line
- DEBATE: Why don’t you view the cleaners as colleagues?
- Underwhelming attendance at conference on freedom of research at Aarhus University
- Report from a mop bucket: We don’t buy your arguments, management!
- The senior management team wants to outsource cleaning in 51 buildings at AU
- No gender bias at Aarhus BSS
- Researchers from AU to teach locals to meditate
- You are invited to a debate on freedom at research at Aarhus University
Omnibus. December 2018.
- AU biblical studies scholar: Jesus was not born in Bethlehem, the New Testament is part fan fiction, and the Christmas story? Rags to riches.
- Debate: Contact your union representative if your freedom of research is threatened
- New report on freedom of research at Aarhus University: Researchers experience threats to their academic freedom. Sometimes from their managers and colleagues
- “My thing is academic pride”
- Show me your office – Lars Bo Nielsen
- We have employees from almost all over the world, and that makes working here exciting
- Feeding experimental pigs at Foulum: Precision. Precision. Precision
- Four women speak out: My greatest challenge as a researcher
Omnibus. November 2018.
I want to make the world a better place – or in any case not worse
English-taught degree programmes to disappear from the Faculty of Arts
Historic election result: Konservative Studenter snags an AU Board seat from the Student Council
I’m sure that we’ll still be one of the best universities in the world a hundred years from now
Omnibus. October 2018.
- Elections at AU: Who should get your vote?
- Election time at AU: What are we voting on?
- DEBATE: Danish history is part of a larger history!
- “It could be nice to finish up at the place in the park where it all started”
- “Thanks to the happiness of the young, I’ll never become a bitter old lady”
- 20 sheep from the North Sea coast make their home in the University Park
- The flower lady of Risskov
- “So much of a nerd that I would have trouble seeing myself anywhere but AU”
- Adventures in the land of sheep chickens and washing bears
- No, King Christian X didn’t misspeak
- AU’s rector confirms: there will be no costume ban
- Show me your office – Asser H. Thomsen
- "After all, no one else does research on Danish history – that’s up to us"
- AU removed photos of students in Obama costumes
- I still get goosebumps every time I go in the Main Hall
Omnibus. September 2018.
- AU student volunteers as mentor for 13-year-old girl in foster care
- “More freedom to act and less bureaucracy”
- “AU is a little like Hotel California. Once you’re here, it’s hard to get away”
- International students rate the Danes: Friendly, but (perhaps) less dateable
- “When they build the new campus, it needs to be in the same style as the old one, because it’s so unique”
- Show me your office – Lars-Henrik Schmidt
- A little too much bling-bling for the rector
- PhD: We believe that alcohol liberates our true selves
- DTU is on the wagon – should AU hop on?
Omnibus. August 2018.
- New in Denmark? Now you can keep up with the local news and get tips from more experienced expats
- PhD committee chair: It’s time for AUPA to deliver results
- Medical students’ association: Charging money for orientation week is a con trick
- On leave from AU: Thanks for your email. I’m out of office. I’ll be in Asia for the next four months...
- Department of Computer Science still waiting for new department head
- The rector stands firm in the face of fierce criticism from PhD students
- Danish courses for DKK 1,250 instead of DKK 10,000 for international students and employees at AU under new agreement
- Hey researcher! What’s your take on freedom of research at AU?
Omnibus. June and July 2018.
- Show me your office – Irina Kazankova and Hans Henrik Hansen
- From stress to success: AU startup wins entrepreneurship competition
- Union representatives from AU win industrial arbitration case
- AU reacts to #MeToo – and makes it easier to get help
- Better legal aid to students in a tight spot
- The quality of Master’s theses has fallen as a result of the study progress reform
- Show me your office – Christina Munk
- So long, AURUS
- Nobel Prize recipient Jens Christian Skou has passed away
- Crown Prince Frederik, 29 years ago a rather shy poli sci student at AU, opens new centre for public management on his 50th birthday
Omnibus. May 2018.
- Show me your office – Peter Sunde
- Appointment of the new head of the Department of Computer Science expected to take place before the summer holiday
- Volunteering: Why work for free?
- Gert Tinggaard Svendsen: “Control is good, but trust is cheaper”
- Residence Hall 1 before and after
- New association will support students who are dealing with grief
- “Weber, we are not white, we are not black; we are people”
- The Socialist People’s Party (SF) wants to ban cars from the University Park
- Shoulder to shoulder for the AU of the future
- Ok, so we landed a collective agreement – but is it a good one?
- Hey! What about that meadow in the University Park?
- Show me your office – Helle Colding Seiersen
Omnibus. April 2018.
- Yes to private bathrooms – or just to attractive on-campus housing?
- Five new research projects aim to create more gender equality at AU
- How much does your office mate earn? And what about your boss?
- Show me your office – Tobias Wang
- Learn Danish and teach your language to a Dane
- March for Science in Copenhagen and Aarhus
- “It’s scary taking over after Aase”
- If you’re a student, the labour dispute will hit you too
- Are science degree programmes harder than humanities programmes?
- AU students can get a 50% discount at fitness.dk centers in Aarhus
Omnibus. March 2018.
- Strike?! Lockout?! What in the world are my Danish colleagues talking about?
- Lockout: Dos and don’ts for AU employees
- PhD students abroad: You may be exempt from the lockout
- Show me your office – Steffen Krogh
- Demonstration for public sector employees in Aarhus
- Information meetings on labour dispute for members of AC unions at AU
- PhD students are worried about the consequences of a lockout
- International students and employees at AU must pay for tax cuts
- If it happens, the lockout will hit virtually all AU employees
- Students must have more contact with researchers
- Show me your office – Dorte Hagen Jensen
- AU to establish new independent body to handle abuse and harassment
- Where do I go for help?
- New indoor garden at the Royal Danish Library
Omnibus. February 2018.
- PhD pressure: So little time, so much work – so what about quality?
- Show me your office – Dorte Laustsen
- Cure your wanderlust without breaking the bank
- Researchers are also under pressure from their own managers
- Show me you kitchen – Michelle Braganza
- The streets in the University Park will become bike-friendly in the course of the month
- Søren Pind: Researchers are responsible for resisting intimidation
Omnibus. January 2018.
- Student and travel blogger: How to travel the world on SU
- The Spirit of the Yellow Brick
- Cut down on your food budget by diving into container
- Show me your office – Anna Louise Dolan Plaskett
- All units at AU must hold annual evacuation drills
- Does your grade depend on your gender?
- Show me your office – Preben Clausen
Omnibus. December 2017.
Omnibus. November 2017.
- Show me your laboratory – Tobias Sandfeld
- Election time at AU – what’s it all about?
- Show me your office - Carsten Bagge Laustsen
- Wanted: Slightly better qualified students
- Guide: 10 events at AU in November
- A small but very significant contract
- Show me your animal facility – Lene Hornbæk Holm
- Guide: 10 events at AU in December
Omnibus. October 2017.
- Guide: 10 events at AU in October
- Is there an AU identity?
- AU students asseble satellite for space mission
- The municipality will turn the roads in the University Park into cycling roads
- Students: No thanks to own toilet and bathroom in the halls of residence
- Show me your office – Lotte Sørensen
- The Aurora research vessel contributed to a breakthrough in the case of the dead journalist Kim Wall
Omnibus. September 2017.
- International students: Danes are friendly, helpful – and really hot!
- Guide: Seven events at AU in September
- Show me your office - Brian Bech Nielsen
- Campus guide: Sleazy pubs, student-run kitchens and instant coffee
- Campus guide: The Student House is the centre of everything, cheap lunch at Karma and volume discounts on coffee
- Campus guide: A Thermos filled with coffee, cheap drinks in the Børs Bar and swotting for exams with pensioners
Omnibus. June 2017.
- New chairman: We shouldn’t be an association of complainers
- Health celebrates its PhD graduates
- Show me your office – Niels Olof Bouvin
- Understand the rules on plagiarism – in only an hour
- 'Conditional positive' accreditation means that three new degree programmes must wait
- Bonfire and party in the park
- Show me your office – Birte Poulsen
Omnibus. May 2017.
- "It’s a bit like a Danish folk high school – but rather elitist and old-fashioned"
- The Danish Parliament has adopted a new Act on scientific dishonesty
- Show me your office – Thomas Ehler and Karsten Nymann Pedersen
- "Just hard work"
- AU researchers get DKK 138 million – how will they use it?
- Show me your office – Inger Anneberg
Omnibus. April 2017.
- You’ve overstepped the mark, dear minister!
- Men, machinery – and corpses
- Guide: 5 events at AU in April
- Study environment survey 2017: Things are going well, but…
- AU Library will merge with the Royal Library on 1 July
- Have we got the right kind of PhD degree programme?
- Show me your office – Derek Beach
- The Danish Parliament has adopted a new Act on scientific dishonesty
Omnibus. March 2017.
- Connie Hedegaard: "What we need as a society isn’t just a question of whatever the Confederation of Danish Industry imagines we need for the next two years."
- Goal-orientated, but in doubt
- Researcher into the most frequent cause of death in the West
- "Sooner or later you’ve got to cut loose…"
- "As a student, you’re not just eating for fun"
- Gathering gender researchers
- March for Science – also in Aarhus and Copenhagen
Omnibus. December 2016
THEME: Election at AU
- Election drama at AU
- Chairman of AU's Election Committee: "A lack of respect for the wishes of the voters"
More:
- Four days later: 57.059 signatures against new double studies law
- The Department of Business Communication consigned to history from the new year
- Christmas Eve at AU: Danish traditions with an international twist
- What's great about studying at AU? According to international students that everyone is on first name terms
Omnibus. September 2016
THEME: Freedom of research
- Stand together! The university's management teams must stand together to safeguard freedom of research
- "We know we haven't been visible enough in the debate"
- Rector chairman on standard contracts: We mustn't end up with rules that can be bent
More:
- 110 honorary doctors at AU - five are women
- More students apply for support due to psychological disorders
- "Being disabled is such a downer"
- Future of Department of Business Communication in place
- Exclusive food, delicious coffee and a clash of styles in new Café and Deli
Omnibus. June and July 2016
THEME: Cost reductions
- Joint union representative: Crucial that there is enough time to phase-in cost reductions
- AU must save DKK 280 million over the next four years
More:
- Researcher: Drop the phrase study environment
- Seven recommendations for improving the study environment at AU
- Language programmes at Arts and BSS to be merged
- New faces in Omnibus' editorial committee
- Finally, the divorce is official
- Students in a jam: Who is on our side?
- A number of European universities have one. The University of Copenhagen has one. But not Aarhus University
Omnibus. May 2016
THEME: Psychological WPA
- Rector: I find it very difficult to envisage a working week that does not vary above 37 hours in a university culture
- Greater number of worn out and stressed imployees at Arts and BSS
- Rector: Our WPA is comprehensive – and that puts us under an obligation
- We are at a cultural institution, but our tone is not always cultured
- Employees in the administration are not optimistic about the future
More:
- Old school that works in Åbogade
- What is the next and best step for my career?
- Gender researcher: "Gender equality is not just a question of staff policy"
Omnibus. April 2016
Articles published in April 2016:
Omnibus. March 2015
Articles published in March 2016:
Omnibus #1, volume 4
Published 02.02.16
Omnibus #6, volume 3
Published 07.12.15
Read about 2015 in review, our two articles about students setting record time in completing their studies - whether slow or fast - and about the balancing act of challenging elite students.
Omnibus #5, volume 3
Published 19.10.15
Read about Minister of Higher Education and Science, Esben Lunde Larsen's, view on the universities being overfed, our theme on feedback at Aarhus University, and about Aarhus University wanting the very best students.
Omnibus #4, volume 3
Published 31.08.15
Read about the benefits of a research year for medical students, about how more students at AU are being caught cheating on their exams, and about the need to plan ahead if you are looking to study abroad.
Omnibus #3, volume 3
Published 01.06.15
Read about the focus on responsible conduct of research, the story of Svend Hylleberg who starts every morning with a Virgin Mary, and the story of how "ghost students" have six doubled at re-exams on Arts.
Omnibus #2, volume 3
Published 30. March 2015
Read about how the stydy progress reform affects students internship, about "Trouble at BSS" and about the mail policy at AU.
Omnibus #1, volume 3
Published 2. Ferbruary 2015
Read about gender equality at Aarhus University, "First batch from China" and get to know your manager.
Omnibus #6, volume 2
Published 8. December 2014
Among other things you can read a summary of what took place between two Wednesdays in mid-November when the student movement ‘A different university’ put a spoke in the wheels at Aarhus University by blockading the senior management team from entering the Rector's Office at Nordre Ringgade 1 for six days.
Omnibus #5, volume 2
Published 20 October 2014
Read more about:
- Aarhus University Research Foundation (AUFF) has just sold the chemical factory Cheminova to the American chemical group FMC Corporation for DKK 8.5 billion.
- Far too many students refuse to accept responsibility for creating quality in their education, says two students from AU who now want to shake up to their fellow students.
- And much more
Omnibus #4, volume 2
Published 1 September 2014
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New rules for Friday bars. Good advice for applying for research funding. The study environment survey 2014: Students are satisfied with their degree programme, they have a tendency to be self-promoting – and more students experience stress in everyday life.
Omnibus #3, volume 2
Published 2 June 2014
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The expert group has its diagnosis ready: Centralisation and standardisation have gone too far at Aarhus University. Board of studies sidetracked. Omnibus has followed two undergraduate students from theology and the study of religion through the ups and downs as they sweat in the run-up to the submission of their Bachelor's project.
Omnibus #2, volume 2
Published 31 March 2014
Read more about: What results did the Psychological workplace assessment (WPA) 2012 turn up? The preparations for the Regatta are already well under way - the invited social associations have been training flat out since before Christmas. Two AU-emploees given the push after 40 and 50 years at AU. New ph.d.-study: All alone in the world - or part of the research environment?
Omnibus #1, volume 2
Published 01 February 2014
Read more about: From the staff to the management: AU’s business school is being wiped off the map. AU closes fitness centres on campus. Omnibus dropped in for coffee at three sections of AU to find out how the staff feel about their immediate future. A tough exam – but a good one!
Omnibus #5, volume 1
Published 08 December 2013
Read more about: Staff and student representatives on the AU board were totally unprepared when they were asked to consider cuts of DKK 200 million. Following the rector’s recent announcement of cuts and the need to fire people, researchers and students have criticised the administration. But what does this criticism reflect? Students and staff points out the highs and the lows at AU in 2013
Omnibus #4, volume 1
Published 11 October 2013
Read an interview with the student who, shortly before Christmas last year, phoned to say that a bomb had been planted on the AU. Meet two AU-students who got marrried at the AU. Learn more about the strange Danes. And read more about the associate professor who felt compelled to write a letter to the rector.
Omnibus #3, volume 1
Published 26 August 2013
Read more about the study start: Omnibus have created a campus guide and focus on the reform of the student grants. Learn more about The senior management team's list of the most important IT projects at AU and the new alarm number at AU.
Omnibus #2, volume 1
Published 17 June 2013
Read more about Dean Brian Bech Nielsen's decision to divide the Department of Bioscience into two temporary units. Crowd funding in order to finance research. A number of academic staff, students and technical/administrative staff give their personal assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen.
Omnibus #1, volume 1
Published 30 April 2013
Read more about Omnibus' editorial committee, the new rector Brian Bech Nielsen, the psychological workplace assessment 2012 and much more.