The management at Denmark's journalism school (DJH) are at odds over whether the school should become a part of Aarhus University or remain an independent institution. Headmaster Kim Minke argues that as research increasingly has become the domain of universities, DJH needs to work closer with Aarhus University to be a part of this, and adds that being a part of the University would simplify collaboration with foreign universities. Lisbeth Knudsen, DJH's chairman, argues that keeping DJH as an independent institution will maintain the education's strong industry connection, strengthen journalistic development and separate DJH from Denmark's two university based journalism schools (link via Journalisten).

I've seen journalism schools work well both as part of universities and as independent institutions, but whichever solution they go for DJH should be careful not to go down the same route as the journalism school at Stockholm's University, JMK: "Over a period of years, JMK has been made more and more academic, and practical vocational training has gradually been replaced by academic research and ‘studying mass media from a cultural perspective’", Stefan Koskinen of the Swedish Newspaper Publishers’ Association argued in Svenska Dagbladet in May. I write more about his editorial here, and the debate that pursued it here.