Universities in Denmark – Cutting thousands of positions within faculties that don’t lead to work

Denmark is addressing youth unemployment by revolutionising the university system. It is cuttingthousands of positions within faculties that don’t lead to work, starting from humanities and social science courses, which will be first in line for the chop. There are currently 15,000 Danish students enrolled on courses with poor employment prospects. The government wants to reduce that number to 11,000 within three years. The cuts will be made according to data on the unemployment rates of graduates from different disciplines. Courses with an unemployment rate of between 2-5% of graduates will have their intake cut by 10%; courses with 5-7.5% unemployment will be cut by 20%; while those with unemployment higher than 7.5% will offer 30% fewer places to new students in future.

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