International students keep universities in regions viable
Akademikerne, the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations, has found.
Only one out of the 10 study places in Denmark with the largest proportion of international students is located in one of the four larger university cities; the nine others are located in smaller provincial cities, the study noted.
The finding casts doubt on the government’s plan to shift 7,500 university study places out of the bigger cities to towns to improve higher education access, as reported by
University World News last week.
This is because the shift would be financed in part by cutting English-taught courses and imposing limits on how much universities can spend on marketing abroad, both of which would affect international student numbers.
Humanities research vital to tackling societal challenges
“Humanities research is an important piece in the puzzle towards new solutions to the grand societal challenges. All professional skills, including the humanities, have to come into play if we are to have a stronger society when this decade is through.”
This is the conclusion of the Danish Association of Masters and PhDs (DM), which has 50,000 members, in a new report titled
Change and Cohesion towards 2030: Humanistic initiatives.
DM President Camilla Gregersen told
University World News: “In my opinion, we have a lot to learn from the Norwegian approach to humanities in terms of the fundamental understanding of what this science can do, and not least how we exploit its potential in the service of society.”
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