Archive for the ‘CBS Observer’ Category
Master’s degree from CBS is “undanish”
URL: http://cbsobserver.dk/node/2159
Naturalization office at Ministry of Justice has refused a candidate from CBS Danish citizenship.
The reason was that the candidate’s MSc training in Finance and Strategic Management from CBS did not meet the requirement that education must be “of the Danish character”. CBS’s master degree was regarded as un-Danish, because the teaching and examinations only occurred in a language other than Danish.CBS can not understand why and is investigating into the matter.
Graduate from CBS was turned down for Danish citizenship
Bulgarian Pavlina Ivanova is a candidate from CBS – she wrote and submitted his thesis in 2010 and graduated with a MSc. degree from the Finance and Strategic Management line. She also finished her bachelor from CBS – she completed her BSc in Business Administration and Service Management in 2007. She came to Denmark for 7 ½ years ago – in 2004 – specifically to study at CBS.
Pavlina Ivanova has always earned her own money in Denmark. She has permanent residence and work permit. She has full-time work – Risk Underwriter in an international credit insurance company in Denmark. She has had since 2009 when she was headhunted by a CEO of an insurance company at a career fair. It was the reason why her thesis was delayed.
Pavlina Ivanova was really happy for Denmark. She wants to be a Danish citizen. She has applied to become a citizen twice now – both times she has been denied. The reason why she was rejected from the Ministry of Justice (Naturalization Office) for the second time around was somewhat remarkable. Therefore, she turned to CBS.
MSc. in Finance and Strategic Management from CBS “not of Danish character”
The Ministry of Justice (Naturalisation Office)’s rejection letter dated 16 November 2011 said that in Pavlina Ivanova application to obtain Danish citizenship by naturalization, it appeared that “the Ministry does not consider that you may be covered by the rules of § 11 of Circular Letter No. 61 of 22 September 2008 on guidelines for naturalization, since one can not consider your education MSc in Finance and Strategic Management from CBS to satisfy the condition that the education must be “of the Danish character” since the teaching and examinations in the program exclusively occurred at a language other than Danish. “
It was new. A MSc degree from CBS are developed and offered on a state-financed Danish university that is accredited by ACE Denmark, and approved by the Ministry of Education (which even has a Board of International Education to promote the internationalization of the Danish education at all levels below it) and is regulated by the Danish legislation on equal footing with CBS ‘other programs.Should it be un-Danish? Not according to CBS’s glasses.
The CBS education board answered the letter to the Justice Ministry: “it seems most surprising and quite incomprehensible that the Justice Department without further ado – and without that CBS has been heard about it – categorizes than of our education as not being of Danish nature explained only in the training conducted in English. “
CBS protest grounds to Education Ministry and Danish Universities
At CBS, we can not accept that the issue of teaching and exam language may be qualified reason to distinguish whether some MSc specializations can be considered to be of more Danish character than others. CBS is actually that the case has such a fundamental nature and implicates so problematic aspects of our programs that the education board has informed the Ministry of Education on the matter and expect that from here will bring the case to Justice.
- MSc. CBS ‘flagship education at graduate level. It is remarkable that a government agency without the knowledge of university research and knowledge production may determine whether a Danish accredited and state-funded education is the ‘Danish’ or not. I must assume that the Education Ministry as our supervisor has the right to make such an assessment, said education dean Molin CBS OBSERVER and elaborates:
- To the MSc. line is taught in English is irrelevant. A wide range of CBS (and other Danish universities) courses taught in English, which of course does not alter the basic fact that there is education funded by the Danish government, developed, offered and implemented in a Danish context, with a positive Danish accreditation.
Education Ministry lawyers in examining the matter
CBS ‘Board was briefed on the matter at the Board meeting on Thursday 15December, and here was clearly indicated that CBS can not be seated at that university’s graduate programs can be described as being “not of the Danish character”.
CBS OBSERVER has contacted the Ministry of Education to get an opinion from the Minister for Education Mr Morten Østergaard (Radical). From here it is informed that the Ministry’s lawyers are currently investigating the matter, and that the Minister can only speak when the procedure is finished.
