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The preparations for the Regatta are already well under way. The invited social associations have been training flat out since before Christmas.…
HR supporter Kirsten Neuhauge and work environment manager Erling Østergaard have worked at AU for 40 and 50 years respectively. Now both have been…
Unions and union representatives have had scant opportunity to help and advise their members. The unions have not experienced such a chaotic and…
On the way to work one morning I hear on the news that there has been an increase in the number of cases of cheating and plagiarism at the Danish…
“In reality, I don’t think much has come of it yet”
Have you been subjected to bullying, sexual harassment, threats of violence or violence during the last 12 months? This was one of the questions in…
The expert group tasked with analysing where things went wrong with the reorganisation of the university has the departments as the focal point of its…
The senior management team is planning an international evaluation of the academic development process in 2016.
The gardeners are busy putting the finishing touches to the layout of a new tropical hothouse which first officially opens in September. But from 16…
Meatballs in curry with good (but rather firm) meatballs and a rich and bland carbonara were on the menu the day the Omnibus food critics eat out at…
Whale researcher Peter Teglberg Madsen examines the equipment in front of him outside the Department of Bioscience in Aarhus. Knives? Check.…
AU expects that the requirement for automatic registration for courses and exams that is part of the study progress reform will lead to a large…
Laugh all the way through the spring together with colleagues and fellow students. The revue season at AU is already under way but continues well into…
Three students appeared before the municipal court in October last year in connection with the bomb threat made against Campus Fuglesangs Allé in…
The Medicine Students’ Council organises an annual internet ballot among the students to find the teacher of the year at Medicine. For the third time,…
A better study environment at AU, local implementation of the study progress reform and studies quality assurance are just three of the issues…
1. The last time my blood pressure went through the roof was because: (long pause …) I’m a relatively calm man, but poor news coverage can get me…
Omnibus took a trip around campus to find out how familiar the students at AU actually are with the Student Council and the degree programme councils.
The 50 planned dismissals at the Faculty of Health are particularly surprising for the union representatives, who are now fighting to ensure the best…
Rector Brian Bech Nielsen can’t give any guarantees, but he believes that the cuts will place AU on a firm financial platform, enabling the university…
A bitter-sweet coffee break with Omnibus. In January the deputy directors and departments were informed of exactly how much money they needed to save,…
Senior staff scheme. Just one week before the deadline for applications, staff were informed about the option of applying for a senior staff scheme.…
An analysis panel is joining forces with the senior management team to lay down the framework for internal problem analysis following the academic…
Wave goodbye to your vision of a broad business school. This is the message being sent to the management by more than 30 assistant professors,…
The Studenterlauget fitness centre was the first to shut down, and now the AU Sports Club might have to close its Trøjborg fitness centre as well.
In September last year the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) opened a new fitness centre on the campus in Odense. Five months later, the…
Foreigner Guides Foreigner (UVU) is an organisation staffed by volunteers from non-Danish backgrounds who help people to choose the right programme of…
A day in the life of a union representative. Gitte Bak Ditlefsen works in the accounts office at AU Finance and Planning (and yes, she’s one of the…
A new type of examination means that 110 students of medicine in their second-last semester are now examined individually on 14 stands on the same…
Ever since September last year, students on Bachelor’s degree programmes looking for an extra challenge have had the chance to test their academic…
Last year the teaching staff at the Department of Physics and Astronomy were asked by the dean’s office at ST to implement a 35 ECTS honours programme…
The Student Council and the student representatives on the Board are against the idea of honours programmes designed for a select group of students.…
The honours programme is worth 35 ECTS credits on top of the 180 ECTS credits generated by the standard full-time degree programme. Apart from their…
Have the politicians lost their minds? Judging by the recent debate about the study progress reform, it seems that in many ways they have.
We love using acronyms at AU. But we also use plenty of long words. For instance, the longest Danish word found by…
The university board regrets having to adopt a budget which will mean a large number of job losses at AU. Michael Christiansen, the chair of the…
Rector Brian Bech Nielsen acknowledges that both factors are to blame for the major cuts that lie ahead.
Staff and student representatives on the AU board were totally unprepared when they were asked to consider cuts of DKK 200 million. The cuts were an…
Many students ask themselves that particular question. But the senior management team at AU are not yet ready to say anything specific about how they…
Omnibus asked six AU-students before the meeting about the study progress reform.
Following the rector’s recent announcement of cuts and the need to fire people, researchers and students have criticised the administration. But what…
In November (after being rector of the university for 100 days), Brian Bech Nielsen presented the senior management team with a list of what he…
Heidi Klokker will be continuing as one of the two student representatives on the university board, while Andreas Birch Olsen is new to the job. They…
Omnibus asked students and staff to point out the highs and the lows at AU in 2013.
Lone Koefoed Hansen, associate professor at the Department of Aesthetics and Communication, Digital Design; and Peter Lauritsen, associate professor…
"The trend for particular fashions in the funding system, new reward structures at our universities and the uniformity of research topics are helping…
A day in the life of Mette Madsen, associate professor in medical biochemistry. A couple of years ago she won a huge grant from the Danish Council for…
One of the basic skills of any academic is that they should be able to communicate what they know. But a snobbish attitude to communication – as well…
Three teachers from the Department of Culture and Society are keen to include modern media in their teaching. So far they have been on a course about…
A huge number of students click on stud.BSS a couple of times a day when they want a laugh. But very few people actually know who’s behind these…
Spend Christmas Eve with other students. Free Christmas spirit in the Old Town. 67 different Christmas and winter beers on the Unibar beer menu -…
AU students debating international politics. Whistleblowers in the public sector. Try crowdfunding via your library. New student loans for students…
Deputy Director Søren Trangbæk has resigned, but says this has nothing to do with the current financial situation at Aarhus University.
A day in the life of “SU Live”. New ventures always experience a certain number of teething problems. And AU’s new radio programme “SU Live” is no…
Shortly before Christmas last year, a student phoned to say that a bomb had been planted on the AU campus on Fuglesangs Allé in Aarhus. Next day he…
Like sardines in a tin. Students sitting on the windowsills and staircases – it’s quite a common sight at BSS. The reason for the shortage of space is…
A number of students have been double booked this semester because two of their subjects have been timetabled at the same time. This is exactly the…
Omnibus asked four AU students.
One of the two current student representatives on the board, Benjamin Bilde Boelsmand, admits that the number of issues for which the two students…
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