Denmark tries to shift enrollments away from urban areas

Image:  Academics working in Denmark’s biggest urban centers fear widespread job cuts as a government drive to redistribute student places to smaller cities and towns reaches its endgame. Universities have been forced to draw up plans to cut their enrollments in Aalborg, Aarhus, Copenhagen and Odense by 10 percent by 2030 under a decentralization plan unveiled by ministers in May 2021. Institutions were left with the choice of relocating courses or shutting them down...