Thursday, over 300 officials, guests and students were participating in the inauguration ceremony of China's second Confucius Classroom at Niels Steensens Gymnasium (NSG). At the opening ceremony, Chinas ambassador in Denmark, Xie Hangshen expressed the hope that the Confucius Classroom at NSG will help promoting student exchanges between China and Denmark and strengthen the cooperation between the two countries in various areas. At the ceremony, Dorthe Enger, head of Niels Steensens Gymnasium thanked the Chinese Government and The Confucius Institute at Copenhagen Business School for for having established the Confucius Classroom at her school.

Petra Schubert of Centre for Applied Information and Communication Technologies (CAICT), Copenhagen Business School, has, together with Susan P. Williams, Institute for Information Systems Research, Germany, conducted an empirical study on the benefits from current ERP. Among other things the study shows that on the functional level benefits in the form of improved business intelligence are in the foreground.

More than 20 languages will be merged with other academic disciplines on the Danish universities. Professor Robert Phillipson from Copenhagen Business School states that 'it is lunatic for Denmark not to maintain strong research and teaching environments for a wide range of languages.'

The beginning of a new and much improved business partnership between Scandinavia and Malta will hopefully soon be reality with the launch of new project. The name of the project is Scandinavian Business Forum and its purpose is to improve the business ties between Malta on one hand and Scandinavia on the other. The Malta Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry has been closely involved in the process towards the establishment and according to the chairman of the new forum, Mark Fenech, this new collaboration will create a solid foundation on which a profitable extended business partnership can be build. In addition to the positive aspects of the future partnership between Malta and Scandinavia, and Mikkel Korntved, guest lecturer at CBS and CEO of Loyalty of Group International Denmark, discussed the possibilities of establishing business ties within the Scandinavian market related to the event.

Bjorn Lomborg, director of the thin-tank Copenhagen Consensus Center and adjunct professor at Copenhagen Business School, comments on how environment advocates have changed their rhetoric away from scare tactics towards a more positive advertisement of their prescriptions for reductions of carbon-dioxide emissions. They now focus on the economic windfall of implementing green energy, but Lomborg believes many of the appointed benefits to be illusory and exaggerations.

Director of the Center for Chinese and Global Affairs at Peking University, Pan Wei, held a lecture on 'Contemporary Chinese System' at Copenhagen Business School Monday (Oct. 11). The lecture was among others attended by Kjeld-Erik Broedsgaard, head of Asia Research Center at CBS, and Verner Worm, director of Copenhagen Business Confucius Institute. Pan Wei presented the unique characters of the Chinese political, economic, and social systems, and dismissed that Western systems are applicable to China.

At the OECD's general conference, ‘Higher Education in a World Changed Utterly: Doing more with less’, there were one big question identified. How is it possible to make higher education value while admitting more students and cutting back on spending? Johan Roos, president of the Copenhagen Business School, said at the conference: ‘The best of all worlds is to combine low delivery costs with very high value’.

Lee Harvey from Copenhagen Business School (CBS), comments on the importance of higher education. He emphasizes that the link between graduate education, the level of highly educated people in the society, and the national economy has been a well-known fact within the UK for decades. However, he believes that the focus regarding the economy's dependency on education has been shifting. He encourages to a further effort in order to improve elements such as curriculum design and pedagogy and to make sure that the standards of education is enhanced continuously.

Lee Harvey from Copenhagen Business School (CBS), comments on the importance of higher education. He emphasizes that the link between graduate education, the level of highly educated people in the society, and the national economy has been a well-known fact within the UK for decades. However, he believes that the focus regarding the economy's dependency on education has been shifting. He encourages to a further effort in order to improve elements such as curriculum design and pedagogy and to make sure that the standards of education is enhanced continuously.

Bjørn Lomborg, a statistician from the Copenhagen Business School, is one of the world's best-known climate sceptics. He says that climate change is a massively exaggerated problem. Bjørn Lomborg is also known for widely criticising policies that attempt to solve the climate problem.