The agreement on working hours and the account of hours operate within a system of STANDARDS, i.e. with standards for agreed tasks, and not as a registration of the actual number of working hours.
Hourly compensation in connection with teaching, examinations and administrative tasks will be calculated in accordance with standards specified in the agreement on working hours at the Faculty of Arts and supplementary agreements at faculty or school level regarding the duties of staff. Imbalance in a single semester is not critical, but it is a joint responsibility for the individual staff member and the management to achieve a balance over several semesters.
On page five of the agreement there is a list of the tasks included in the account of working hours.
In addition to these tasks, staff members can make agreements on special tasks with their head of school, head of department or director of studies. Each head of department administers a kitty of departmental hours, the size of which is determined by the head of school and the director of studies based on the number of staff members and educational programmes within the department. This kitty can be used to award up to 20 hours to academic staff for the performance of special tasks; for example concerning development of the academic content of educational programmes, including extensive revisions of academic regulations.
Working hours in connection with research activities and knowledge exchange (e.g. coordination of a research unit, preparation of research applications, planning of conferences and editorial work) are not registered, cf. page four in the agreement on working hours at the Faculty of Arts.
Teaching and examination hours are registered in two separate periods.
Spring semester: teaching in the period between 1 February and 31 August, as well as re-examinations.
(Courses taught at summer university are registered in the spring semester because examinations are held in the summer examination period)
Autumn semester: teaching in the period between 1 September and 31 January and re-examinations.
The registration of all other tasks is based on the calendar year; i.e. spring semester = January-June, autumn semester = August-December.
An annual cycle has been prepared for registering and updating data, which entails that:
The distribution between research and other tasks is specified in the agreement on working hours, p. 2-3.
Full-time staff | Hours earmarked for teaching, examinations and administration each semester |
Professors | 493 |
Professors with special responsibilities (MSO) | 493 |
Associate professors | 493 |
Assistant professors (ordinary, 3 years) | 493 (a semester with no teaching obligations, where the norm is set to zero, is to be agreed with the head of department – in accordance with the agreement between the union representative and DPU) |
Full-time research assistant with only teaching assignments
| 657 |
Please note: For staff members whose employment is financed externally (including post docs), working and teaching hours, examinations and administration are calculated on an individual basis.
The annual hourly compensation for participation on most committees is fixed in the local agreement for the Faculty of Arts regarding hourly compensation and supplements for specific responsibilities. For meeting forums not mentioned in this agreement, compensation is determined on the basis of the average number of hours spent on meeting activities and preparations.
For all members of staff, 65 working hours are allocated a year for academic and social meetings: 40 hours taken from teaching hours and 25 hours taken from research hours. These hours will be registered in the account as 20 hours per semester designated for 'staff meetings etc'.
MEMBERS OF | Hours per semester |
Academic Council (member) | 25 |
Academic Council (chair) | 100 |
Boards of studies | 25 |
Board of studies, chair DPU | 150 |
Degree programme boards, member | 25 |
PhD committee, Arts | 25 |
PhD committee, chair, Arts | 100 |
PhD, local degree programme committee, DPU | Hours scaled according to number of PhD students |
School forum | 18 |
There is no hourly compensation for meetings held in the school management team and research committee, as they form part of the duties of the head of department and research programme director, respectively.
Academic assessment of applicants for full-degree Master’s programmes: 15 minutes per applicant (determined by the faculty).
Assessments of PhD dissertations and appointments cf. the agreement on working hours, p. 9 and 10.
SUPERVISION | Hours per semester |
PhD principal supervisor | 20 hours |
PhD co-supervisor | 10 hours |
Assistant professor supervision Teacher training programme for assistant professors | A total of 30 hours A total of 150 hours |
ASSESSMENT | Calculated as hours + per applicant |
PhD dissertations (chair) | 30 (resubmittal: 20) |
Higher doctoral dissertations (chair) | 60 |
Advance assessment, if the dissertation is not | 16 hours for higher doctoral dissertations 8 hours for PhD dissertations |
Professorships | 15 hours + 3 hours per applicant, max. 45 hours |
Associate professorships | 8 hours + 2 hours per applicant, max. 38 hours |
Assistant professorships/postdocs | 8 hours + 5 hours per applicant, max. 23 hours |
Part-time lecturers lectureships and | Half an hour per applicant |
The number of hours spent per examination is determined on the basis of the type of examination stipulated in the academic regulations and on the basis of the agreement on working hours, p. 8.
The number of assessed examinations will be compensated for, including failed exams.
TYPES OF EXAMINATION | Calculated as follows |
Oral examinations of 20 minutes | 30 minutes |
Oral examinations of 30 minutes | 45 minutes |
Oral examinations of 40 minutes | 1 hour |
Oral examinations of 60 minutes | 1½ hours |
Assignments/synopses of max. 5 standard pages | 25 minutes |
Written assignments of 0-10 standard pages | 5 minutes per page |
Written assignments of 11 standard pages or more | 4 minutes per page |