With a minimum average mark of 11.1, cognitive science has taken first place among the AU degree programmes with the highest minimum average mark for…

At the University of Copenhagen, students who feel unjustly treated or need help navigating the jungle of rules can find help and guidance from an…

Student Marlene Kongsted ended up having to write an extended exam paper after a number of unfortunate mix-ups involving course registration and…

The marriage has been in trouble for a long time. Not because they don’t care about each other and the children - because they do. They have also…

From the turn of the year, the language programmes at the Department of Business Communication at BSS will become part of Arts. The University Board…

Six of the seven committee members are new, while one member continues.

Study environment is too narrow a phrase that only directs itself at students, according to Associate Professor Rikke Toft Nørgård, who carries out…

A good physical study environment is more than just power outlets, good chairs and inviting lounge areas. A degree programme’s environment has a…

AU's joint union representative for AC-TAP and academic staff, Olav W. Bertelsen, is satisfied with the gradual phasing-in of the DKK 280 million cost…

The senior management team has just received the board’s approval for a DKK 280 million cost reduction plan to be implemented over the next four…

Women are underrepresented among the academic staff at AU, and a new action plan adopted by the senior management team will now try to rectify this.…

As a new initiative, the psychological WPA 2016 included a question on whether employees had been subjected to repeated abusive, offensive or…

University Director Arnold Boon believes that the management at the administration has a job to do when it comes to clarifying tasks and more…

The first rungs on the way up the academic career ladder are often characterised by fixed-term positions and uncertainty. It can also be difficult for…

More than half of AU's employees work considerably more than required by their contract. That figure does not surprise Rector Brian Bech Nielsen. As…

As was the case with the WPA in 2012, Arts and BSS are the two faculties where employees experience the greatest problems with the psychological…

Rector Brian Bech Nielsen has noted the increase in employee well-being. But he also notes that the employees are still too stressed and the…

Our two hungry reviewers from political science were enthusiastic about the good use of ingredients and delicious choices that met them at the IT…

The Centre for Teaching and Learning at AU is running a pilot project studying how study environment, stress, and the students' own planning affects…

One of the lecturers who accepted the advice offered by the Centre for Teaching and Learning and actively tested their methods and tools is Assistant…

An increasing number of students are seeking out the student chaplain at Aarhus University. Many of them come because they feel trapped by the…

A new PhD study from AU makes clear that there are significant differences on a group level between student personalities across fields of study. The…

The refugee crisis in Europe is a core topic in the teaching at European Studies, where students were recently given a unique opportunity to…

In the future, undergraduate students at AU will have to complete their degree programme within the prescribed time + a maximum of one year. They must…

Tell me what you are studying and I’ll tell you who you are. New research from Aarhus University shows that students on the various study programmes…

AU's Committee for Education is ready with a proposal for implementing the study progress reform at AU. Enforced registration for courses and exams…

Omnibus sent two vegetarian foodies to try the Social Sciences Cafeteria’s culinary buffet. The two reviewers found the information about the…

University historian Palle Lykke could. So now the arches must again be taken down again and then rebuilt.

The study progress reform is intended to get students to complete their studies faster, but the students predict that it is not going to work.…

Once again it is time to fill out the questionnaire on which the psychological workplace assessment (WPA) at AU is based. But in contrast to the…

Political Science student Mads Hareskov has just been elected the new chair of the Student Council at Aarhus University. His first big job is to help…

See AU student Tanja Valentin Francis Burke’s private photos from Athens, where she spent two weeks taking part in voluntary work to help the many…

Associate Professor Olav W. Bertelsen from the Department of Computer Science will take over the post of joint union representative after Per Dahl.…

Goodbye. Per Dahl will resign from the post of joint union representative for the academic staff at AU on 1 March.

In October, Omnibus wrote about former AU student Camilla Hessellund Lastein, who was going to create a kind of Spotify for study books. Now her beta…

For philosophy student Tanja Valentin Francis Burke, just observing the refugee crisis in the media is not enough. She stood at border when the wave…

Omnibus has talked to architect Jean Pierre Bolívar. Since 2008 he has been a partner in BUSarchitektur and has been involved in major university and…

Several groups of refugees do well in the labour market. Almost as well as the average for Danes, if we take the employment rate 15-20 years after a…

During the exam period there is increased pressure on the student places around the campus. So the students were critical of the decision to axe 40-50…

Lene Leth Thomsen landed her dream job as a newly graduated MSc in Economics and Business Administration. But she quickly found out that even after…

It’s like being in a cosy den, with books in the windows and soft sofas at Dale's Café. The food is prepared from good-quality ingredients, and the…

Department Head at the Department of Biomedicine Thomas G. Jensen did not hesitate to back up on the idea of a monthly department seminar when it came…

In 2011, six smaller departments merged to become what is today the Department of Biomedicine with 450 employees spread across six buildings. But how…

AU's new university director is named Arnold Boon, he is 48 years old and comes from a position as faculty director at the Faculty of Health and…

Chairman of the Student Council Sune Koch Rønnow expects to have his Bachelor done and dusted within a year – after more than seven-and-a-half years…

Archaeology student Caroline Elisabeth Fisker has completed her Bachelor six months quicker than the prescribed study period by taking up to 15 extra…

For the final edition of Omnibus in 2015, we have asked seven researchers to point to the most remarkable events of the past year.

The senior management team has decided that Omnibus should be digitised. So if you’re sitting with a print version of the newspaper, you now have the…

Three internal members continue on AU's board and are joined by two new faces. The election was once again characterised by a low turnout and many…

Marine biologist Jakob Strand from the Department of Bioscience in Roskilde has been honoured with the Environmental Award 2015.

… the amount that students and employees at AU succeeded in raising for refugees in Denmark and in the world's hot spots. Two students and two…

The Greenhouses in the Botanical Gardens in Aarhus won aoa.dk’s competition for the title of best family experience in Aarhus.

Once again this year, the Studenterhus Aarhus is providing the premises on Christmas Eve for both Danish and international students to celebrate a…

This is the first time that Assistant Professor Mathias Clasen has seen a student get an article published in a scientific journal. But it is not the…