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Review: A party every weekend at the Rigshospitalets Kollegium

You can party your way through your studies at Rigshospitalets Kollegium, as long as you also do your fair share of the cleaning

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Science

Researchers do not own the work of students: New guidelines for students involved in research

When students contribute to research projects, they are often subject to vague agreements. The Practice Committee at the University of Copenhagen has therefore published an advisory checklist to clarify students’ rights.

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Education

»A useless ritual«? This is why instructors and students have to hand in evaluations

The University of Copenhagen spends both time and payroll on evaluating the quality of teaching in their courses. But why actually? And what are they used for? Here is an overview.

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Student life

Review: Industrikollegiet — Two glass towers and a chicken coop

The Industrikollegiet in the Copenhagen district of Nørrebro is home to 95 students. They share kitchens and gardens, and have built a hen coop, which also functions as a bar.

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Politics

Protester: Why am I worth more than a humanities student?

On the day of the Danish universities' deadline to report cuts and relocations of study programmes to the ministry, students demonstrated in front of parliament.

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Student life

Review: Grønjordskollegiet — get yourself 1,000 roommates

It is not pretty, but the Grønjordskollegiet is cheap, and it's huge. And with 1,000 roommates, you will always find someone you like hanging out with, no matter whether you are into parties, or Dungeons and Dragons.

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Coronavirus

»I'm concerned that everything might be shut down again, and we'll have to have online lectures«

New corona restrictions have students concerned that universities will return to online teaching, that exams will be changed, and that we will yet again have to give up the routines of normality. But the actual risk of infection does not concern them.

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Campus

Guests cheated by canteen: 10 per cent extra on scales

In many of the canteens at UCPH, food is sold by weight – but in the canteen in building 23 at the South Campus, customers risk paying 10 per cent too much if they pick the wrong set of scales.

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Education

Timeline: 13 cuts to Danish humanities since 2011

The University of Copenhagen is about to cut admissions to the Faculty of Humanities by a quarter as a result of the government's relocation plan. But this is just the latest jaw-dropping development in a decade of bad news for the humanities. See the timeline here.

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Campus

Two students are turning your bad habits into brisk business

Two students of agroeconomics on Frederiksberg Campus at the University of Copenhagen have a company that runs two snack machines and a coffee vending machine for when the canteens are closed.

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