News from the Rector's Office no. 37
Meet the new deans and take part in the debate
– about the academic development process and other issues currently being dealt with at Aarhus University.
At the staff meeting on 9 November, the rector will present the new university management, which will spearhead the university from the end of the year. The deans will each briefly talk about their new main academic area and their expectations regarding the work ahead. At the same time, the rector will sum up the academic development process and the challenges up to the end of the year.
Finally, Rector Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen will take the opportunity to comment on a number of university policy topics, such as the financing of degree programmes, the Finance Act and utilising globalisation funds in 2011, administration costs, gender equality and minor subjects.
Those attending the meeting will have an opportunity to address questions to the Rector’s Office and the deans of the new main academic areas.
On 15 November, a corresponding meeting is being organised for students in collaboration with the Student Council at Aarhus University.
Continued growth in the area of education
Aarhus University has calculated its production and student numbers in the area of education as of 1 October (the so-called October figures) and can once more ascertain good progress.
The university’s population of ordinary students – Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programmes and medium-cycle programmes of higher education – amounts to 32,304. Of these, the number admitted via KOT (the Coordinated Enrolment System) in 2010 is 6,203.
Compared with 2009, the total population has increased by 1,893 people. Bachelor students account for 1,269 of these, corresponding to an increase of eight per cent. The number of Master students has increased by four per cent, corresponding to 612 people. The last group of twelve people is an increase in the number of students taking medium-cycle programmes of higher education, and this corresponds to an increase of six per cent.
- The total October figures as well as definitions and figures for previous years. Click on “Students”.
Contact details for the deans
The deans of the four new main academic areas took up their appointments on 1 November and have so far been given offices in buildings 1430 and 1431, close to the Rector’s Office on Nordre Ringgade. During their introductory period up to the end of the year, they are having meetings with the Rector’s Office, the deputy directors and FALK (the central administration’s senior management group), as well as their respective main academic areas.
The deans can be contacted at the following e-mail addresses and phone numbers:
Dean Mette Thunø, Aarhus Faculty of Arts
met@adm.au.dkExtension: 1975
Mobile: 2979 9330
Dean Brian Bech Nielsen, Aarhus Faculty of Science and Technology
bbn@adm.au.dkExtension: 1966
Mobile: 2338 2349
Dean Allan Flyvbjerg, Aarhus Faculty of Health Sciences
alf@adm.au.dkExtension: 1963
Mobile: 5177 9548
Dean Svend Hylleberg, Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences
sh@adm.au.dkExtension: 1970
Mobile: 2338 2020
The deans also have offices at the main academic areas.
November meetings about the budgets for 2011
The annual budget meetings, at which the final budgets for the coming year are determined by the main academic areas and the Rector’s Office, will be held on the following dates:
17 November:
- Aarhus School of Business
- Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
- Faculty of Theology
23 November:
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- Danish School of Education
- Faculty of Science
24 November:
- Faculty of Health Sciences
- National Environmental Research Institute
- Faculty of Humanities
The Rector’s Office will subsequently announce the final budgetary framework for 2011.
... and the winner is …
On Thursday 4 November, Professor Philipp Schröder from the Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University, won the Danish University Extension’s ForskerFight (ResearchFight) and the prize of DKK 10,000 with a compact and well-presented lecture entitled The journey to the inside of globalisation, about the state of the world’s economy.
He faced stiff competition from seven other researchers on stage at the KaserneScenen, Department of Aesthetic Studies. The compère for the evening was Niels Krause-Kjær. The four judges were Rector Eva Jørgensen, Aarhus Theatre Drama School, TV producer Jan Haugaard, Professor Berit Eika and Pro-Rector Søren E. Frandsen, Aarhus University, who was also the umpire.
- Read more on the University Extension’s website (in Danish only).
- ForskerFight 2010 minute by minute (in Danish only).
Ranking of science subjects: Aarhus University achieves ranking of number 22
In the German CHE ExcellenceRanking 2010 from the Centre for Higher Education Development (CHE), Aarhus University achieved a ranking of number 22 out of 130 tertiary education institutions in Europe that have developed strong research-oriented fields of study with an international focus at Master’s and PhD level in the fields of biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics.
This list focuses on the quality of teaching and international research strength.
- See the entire list, including detailed information about Aarhus University’s ranking in each individual subject.
Calendar
- 8 November: University management meeting
- 9 November: Staff meeting
- 12–14 November: Aarhus University Press and the University Extension share a stand at BogForum 2010
- 15 November: Debate meeting with students
- 6 December: University management meeting
- 16 December: University Board meeting
Kind regards
The Rector’s Office
8 November 2010
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