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At 112 300 kronor a month, Lund University’s chancellor Per Eriksson carries the third highest income among Swedish college and university employees. Eight higher education chancellors in Sweden earn over 100 000 kronor a month.
A group of homeless Norwegian forest cats continue to wander the streets of Lund University. Cat-friendly residents have begun to worry about the cats’ safety during the up and coming winter. One such cat has been fondly named “Pelle Hemlös” (after the Swedish film Pelle Svanslös about a cat living in Uppsala).
Star researcher and Lund professor Patrik Brundin will be moving to the United States. Brundin will continue his work on Parkinson’s disease at the Van Andel Research Institute in Michigan. Professor Brundin will continue to work during the coming three years for Lund, but noted that the research in Parkinson’s has been slowing down, and regrets that the university does not work enough with Skånes universitetssjukhus.
Internal auditing at Lund University criticizes the leadership at the institution for having too loose regulations regarding the distribution of grant money. According to the internal auditing’s survey, 4 out of 34 grants under 8.4 million kronor and 11 out of 12 grants over the 8.4 million line were all signed by unauthorized individuals.
The purchase of a luxurious apartment for Nordea’s president has caused a storm of controversy. It has later been revealed that the Swedish bank’s president Christian Clausen will also be receiving a pension of up to 98 million kronor.
