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Massive Layoffs Hit University of Copenhagen
jones_supa writes: University of Copenhagen is cutting deep into its staff to cut operation costs. Even though a great deal of the savings are aimed at administration and service, they are expected to affect the quality of education and research many years ahead. More than 500 teachers, researchers and employees in service and administrative jobs will be leaving. This corresponds to 7% of all staff. 209 employees can anticipate being laid off, while 323 jobs are either discontinued or terminated via voluntary redundancy. In addition to this, the university will have to reduce its PhD intake by 10% in the coming years. This is the outcome of the government's 2016 budget which imposes huge savings on research and education. As you might remember, we just heard about a similar situation in University of Helsinki in Finland.
They can all learn to code and find new jobs!
I guess academia is nerdy but who cares? Europe is crumbling, this is no surprise.
Well they need money to pay for all those refugees. Population replacement is not cheap!
Where else will they get the money to pay for homes for all the niggers and arabs, not to mention all the rape trauma centers that will be needed?
The Nordic welfare states are dropping like flies. Europe as a whole is being torn apart and destroyed. The day dream called EU is basically over. This century we will see the return of the not so small bickerings between European nations, something that was status quo for centuries before the massive and brutal wars of the 20th century.
Wish they'd have massive layoffs at liberal arts universities. Those types need to see the real world.
Just send all the Muslim refugees to college for free. Enrollment will spike. Problem solved.
You're welcome!
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
This is the outcome of the government's 2016 budget which imposes huge savings on research and education.
You seem to have misspelled "cuts".
~Idarubicin
If that piece of crap come over my house again, I'll figure out who is after that shitty reporter and tell them she moved to my city. She may not be her, I don't care. But the odds are good to me, just thinking thatr shit won't bother me again.
If you want to read more about the flipside of the Nordic Model, read "The Almost Nearly Perfect People" by Booth. Then think about whether you really want to live in a society like that.
How else can you pay for the influx of immigrants? These people are over paid. For the same amount of money, you can feed and cloth twice of many people who are escaping a war torn region. We do not need higher education any more. Only need to read the Koran.
They have an insane amount of lecturers, who creep along in acedemia always close to full unemployment, running seminars which are barely visited by students. Less PhD students is also a good idea, it's time to stop throwing a PhD out to anyone who writes something that superficially resembles a book without any real quality control. Half of all theses are not worth the paper they are printed on.
However, to fair, I'm pretty sure the current fascist government does it for all the wrong reasons and certainly not to improve science and education.
A 7% reduction (where over half are voluntary meaning only 3% actually get sacked) doesn't seem so unusual and by no means massive. In all companies I've been there has been cuts that were both bigger in absolute and percentage terms, hardly raised a headline. But now it's the public sector so it is somehow a disaster not only nationally but also news-worthy internationally?!
It seems in the past year, some danes have figured out that whenever the government does something they disagree with they can run to the international media with "Oh look how evil they are!" stories and easily have them printed. Even though the actual news content is utterly trivial, and in fact many other countries have been doing the same "evil" thing.
There has been a massive upsurge in hiring at University of Copenhagen in recent years. A tripling of PhD students over 10 years. Any half-decent grad student gets routinely offered 2-3 PhD positions if they finish, and can easily get research assistant and PostDoc positions after they finish, and then teachers, asisstant professors and what not after that. Everyone knows they are not all top scientists - quite far from it. In fact many of them couldn't make the cut at a private company, but yet consider themselves superior just because they got a trivial PhD degree.
So on balance, it seems only in order with a little clean-up - just as many other companies have to from time to time. By the way, the actual cut in funding was only 2% so it can't explain why they now have to fire 7%.
Europe can be fixed. First, realize that you are Christian and that the muslim colonizers wish to replace your society with their own failed ones. Fight! European Christians have fought muslim invasion for 1000 years. The war never ended. The Hungarians know that. Deny all muslims asylum, benefits, work permits, etc. They have the right to be arrested and held in camps until transportation home can be found. Next, all members must contribute to a real coast guard, and armed border guard. Obviously Greece and Italy can't handle the onslaught alone. Throw in an increase in military spending. Russia is also a lethal threat. Schengen is dead. Interstate travel should be freely allowed but not residency or work permits. They should be should be controlled by the host state. The Euro is also dead. It makes no sense for the less competitive economies of the south. Floating their own currencies will make them competitive. The end of the Euro will help reduce the political, and fiscal hegemony of Germany, the Euro's primary beneficiary.
an ill wind that blows no good
This is the template for how education becomes captured:
1: Tank the economy while preserving/worsening current distribution of wealth.
2: Force economic restrictions on governments, due to the crisis (this is why the non-solution of austerity is the only 'solution' allowed).
3: When government is forced to cut education, replace funding with private funding.
4: Use private funding to dictate what gets taught, by who, and exclude anything not favourable to elite narratives (i.e. kill all economic teaching, that doesn't favour the current mainstream, to eliminate any possible ideological challenge to the status quo).
All these continents are yours, dear tourist. Except Europe. Attempt no landing there.
snuff sales are down?
more money for immigrants and rapefugees
less for education
implementing islam in progress
C U C K S
Since every kid show is trying to sell you on a smiling slobbering airplane its gone barnstormer vs collegiate whim worder, nows probably actually the time to consider college since they are trying to sell people on the trade since drones took off.
With the Denmark's future population structure (majority will be of "Mediterranean" origin) they won't need to spend too much on education as that is not something young people of the mentioned ethnic origin value. Danes as well may also close all pork farms.
In the future there will be less need for an education. There will also be less need for a lot of people. Why waste money and time getting a degree when you're never going to do anything with it, and if you're not among the elite you're marked for the killing fields already? We're about to fill mass graves with the bodies of the unprivileged, why waste resources on deluding them?
There is no need for science or education in Europe's Islamic future. This is just one small step for Denmark so they can come closer to an Islamic state. Nothing to see here. Move along.
5. Unlimited student loans with no bankruptcy.
5A the professor white there own books and change them each year with them taking a nice cut of the books cost.
5B lot's of hidden fees and other costs that can just be added to the student loan
I bet WHITE GENOCIDE didn't slow down in that 'university', nor in any other...
I see a lot of posters blame refugees for the increased costs of education that have to be cut down (the so-called 'nazis').
YOU IDIOTS. if they education would be spent for refugees, that would pay off, not increase debts.
..right wing idiots don't like studied people. Let's them seem inferior, see current government. That's why they reduce the education, and blame so refugees.. and a lot of americans here seem to agree !!
...in their own country?
Denmark lost Russian market due to sanctions.
I wonder if the new economical divisions in Europe start to manifest themselves at the West too?
In the last couple of decades I have seen educational institutions acquire prime real estate, charge students through the roof for tuition and books exponentially, place credit card booths hither and yon, situate food outlets that charge more for food and beverages than outside said institutions. Schools are a business, not a place of education and it is appalling. What else are they going to do but operate like the heartless corporations they are. Somehow, educational institutions lost touch with their mandate.
...is what they used to call this.
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