Following a new ruling by the Danish University and Property Agency, Aarhus University is now paying compensation to all the 26 EU/EEA citizens who were enrolled in the Erasmus Mundus programmes Lifelong Learning:Policy and Management and Journalism and Media within Globalisation in the period 2005–2007.

In January, Aarhus University paid compensation to four Danish Erasmus Mundus students on the advice of UBST, which stated that students with a Bachelor’s degree from a Danish university should have their fees refunded.The new ruling from UBST makes it clear that Aarhus University was obliged to inform Erasmus Mundus applicants that a parallel study programme existed at the university, for which no fees were required, and that compensation should be paid if this information was not provided. With the new ruling from UBST, the university now has authority to pay compensation.The vice-chancellor has therefore decided that all 26 EU/EEA students, including 7 with Danish citizenship, should have their fees refunded.The compensation is approximatelyDKK 60,000 per student, amounting to about DKK1.56 million in all.

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11 May 2009

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