Nursing students protesting new educational reform

Last week, nursing students in front of Folketinget protested a new government proposal that is seeking to change the current nursing education as a part of a grander reform of the Danish educational system.

Handing out traditional Danish Christmas honey-hearts, the students let out their voices in strong opposition to the government’s plan.A plan that will shorten the education and phase out the final bachelor project.According to the students, the changes can spell a worsening of the nursing-education, and a stifling of the number of people seeking to study […]


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