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11 - 17 January 2013 | Vol 16 Issue 2

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Employment minister backs off suggestion to fast-track immigration for nurses and teachers

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Sperm bank pulls out In response to new legislation, the world’s largest semen provider will no longer service Danish clinics

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Winter’s travail When most people get a fine, they pay it. Megan Coogan is not like most people

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Student grants in government’s crosshairs RAY WEAVER Reform on the way could lead to reductions in funds available for continuing education

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HE AMOUNT of time students can spend getting their degree could be cut if plans submitted by a government education panel are adopted. Although government leaders say that no concrete decisions have been made, a reform package set to be introduced in the spring could well feature cuts to the SU student grant programme as a centrepiece. Several models have been suggested

by the committee, and most pointed to reducing the number of years students can receive SU so that it matches the amount of time it should take to complete their programme. Currently students can receive an extra year of SU. The government is also looking at cutting funding for those students who switch back and forth between courses and schools in order to extend their SU benefits. Other proposals include limiting SU payments to the school year, instead of year round, as under the current system, and differentiating SU amounts based on study programmes. Although a poll released last week indicated that the majority of Danes are against making cuts to the SU

programme, sources in the Education Ministry told Politiken newspaper that “nothing was sacred” when it comes to trimming SU’s 17 billion kroner annual price tag in order to kick two billion kroner back into state coffers each year. A spokesperson for the opposition Dansk Folkeparti (DF) said the government was on the wrong track. “It makes no sense just to kick students out of school,” Jens Henrik Thulesen Dahl, a DF spokesperson, told Politiken newspaper. “The government would do better to examine the system and culture of higher education.” The idea is to save money by getting students through school more quickly, but Jacob Ruggaard, the head of student

union Danske Studerende Fællesråd, thinks any SU cuts would be bad. “Trimming the extra year of study would be counter-productive,” Ruggaard told Politiken. “It would force students who are already behind to work even harder.” Ruggard said students are already moving through the system faster than in years past. The minister for higher education, Morten Østergaard (Radikale), declined to comment on any possible changes in SU the cost of which has nearly doubled in ten years. The increase is due in a large part to

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