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Denmark ranked fourth in student satisfaction

Nordic countries dominated the 2015 International Student Satisfaction Awards, with Denmark named the fourth best destination country for students.

Published: 19 September 2015 18:12 CEST
Denmark ranked fourth in student satisfaction
DTU was named the best university in Denmark. Photo: NewsOresund/Flickr
Danish universities are ahead of the pack when it comes to meeting the needs of international students.
 
The 2015 edition of Study Portal's International Student Satisfaction published this week has rated Denmark as the fourth best destination country for education, following Ireland, Finland and Sweden.
 
With Norway at number eight, four of the top ten countries were in the Nordics.
 
See also: Denmark draws students from southern Europe
 
Ireland took the top spot with an impressive 9.04 average in the student ranking. At the other end of the spectrum was France, which with an 8.2 average was the worst rated country, marred by complaints of poor student services and excessive bureaucracy.
 

Student satisfaction in Europe and Number of Awarded institutions. Graphic: StudyPortals
 
Nordic universities had an average satisfaction score of 8.9.
 
“Scandinavian universities still rule the top places in terms of international student satisfaction. Scandinavian universities were particularly appreciated for the well-organized student services, high levels of academic requirements, and students even appreciated the extreme weather conditions, yet would have preferred slightly lower costs of living,” a Study Portals press release read. 
 
Perhaps because they've got it so good at home, Scandinavian students reported the lowest level of satisfaction when studying abroad. 
 
Five Danish universities rated as ‘Excellent’
Five Danish universities were ranked as 'excellent’ in the survey, besting the three countries ahead of Denmark on the overall satisfaction list. universities in the ranking, beating the numbers of the three first countries on the list. Among the 18 countries ranked, only Germany had more 'excellent' universities than Denmark, with six. Sweden's University of Gothenburg was the only Nordic university to get the distinction of 'outstanding'. 
 

Danish Universities in alphabetical order. Graphic : StudyPortals.
 
The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) was picked as the Denmark's best overall university in the country, followed by VIA University College in Horsens and the University of Copenhagen. Aalborg University and Aarhus University were also rated as ‘excellent’ by a total of 223 international student reviews.
 
The University of Southern Denmark was rated as ‘very good’ with an overall grade of 8+.
 
The StudyPortals International Student Satisfaction Awards 2015 were based on 17,018 students reviews. The full results of the latest study will be announced next week in Glasgow. 

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Police probe opened after poster campaign against ‘Islamophobic’ lecturers at French university

The French government condemned on Monday a student protest campaign targeting two university professors accused of Islamophobia, saying it could put the lecturers in danger.

Published: 8 March 2021 13:35 CET
Police probe opened after poster campaign against 'Islamophobic' lecturers at French university
Illustration photo: Justin Tallis/AFP

Student groups plastered posters last week on the walls of a leading political science faculty in Grenoble that likened the professors to “fascists” and named them both in a campaign backed by the UNEF student union.

Junior interior minister Marlene Schiappa said the posters and social media comments recalled the online harassment of French schoolteacher Samuel Paty last October, who was beheaded in public after being denounced online for offending Muslims.

“These are really odious acts after what happened with the decapitation of Samuel Paty who was smeared in the same way on social networks,” she said on the BFM news channel. “We can’t put up with this type of thing.”

“When something is viewed as racist or discriminatory, there’s a hierarchy where you can report these types of issues, which will speak to the professor and take action if anything is proven,” Schiappa said.

Sciences Po university, which runs the Institute of Political Studies (IEP) in Grenoble in eastern France, also condemned the campaign on Monday and has filed a criminal complaint.

An investigation has been opened into slander and property damage after the posters saying “Fascists in our lecture halls. Islamophobia kills” were found on the walls of the faculty.

One of the professors is in charge of a course called “Islam and Muslims in contemporary France” while the other is a lecturer in German who has taught at the faculty for 25 years.

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