Governance protests pay off

Students in Denmark have secured a say over how the country’s universities are governed, according to the European Students’ Union.

The Danish government has decided to reject a suggestion, from a committee it appointed, that university study boards should no longer have a say over curricula and other academic matters, the ESU reported on 1 October. These boards are composed half of students and half of teachers.

Instead, after months of student protests on the streets and through the media, the government has decided that a new working group will be created to improve the boards’ functioning, according to the ESU. Students will have a role in the group, it said.