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The candidates for this year's university elections have been announced. Here are the students' leading candidates
Three out of four students use generative AI in their studies. But they need more instruction in the new technologies, according to a new survey from lawyers and economists union Djøf. UCPH is trying hard to keep up with the trends and will change the rules starting next year.
She has been the face of ice core research at the University of Copenhagen for decades. Professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen has gone to Canada to make room for the next generation. Her message is: You should change – not fear – the future.
»I am keenly aware that the prospect of layoffs has been like a black cloud over this university, and has affected both individual employees and the working environment in general,« says University Director Søren Skydsgaard. This is after the announcement that this autumn's round of layoffs has been cancelled.
The psychedelic substance psilocybin can have a healing effect on people with psychiatric disorders. At the Copenhagen University Clinic for Psychedelic Research, they treat patients with therapy and a psilocybin trip, and the results are promising.
Once threatened with closure, the University of Copenhagen's aquarium unit in Helsingør is now a popular favourite. Everyone wants to sail out on to the Øresund to see the monster-sized tunas jumping around. The University Post was on a tuna safari.
He calls himself »a huge school person«. But radical activism is more of a draw for Emil Nielsen than his philosophy lectures. We have him recount his journey from school bench to the back of a police car. From Dragon Ball to Karl Marx. From closet anarchist in Herning to spokesperson for Students Against the Occupation.
The University of Copenhagen should not take part in activities that take place on occupied land, the rector emphasizes, because that is what Danish foreign policy is. But the university should never, on its own initiative, restrict its own freedom because then the institution loses credibility. The University Post has spoken to Henrik C. Wegener about an academic boycott.
University employees are showing their support of students' goals and methods and putting pressure on UCPH managers for an academic boycott of Israel.
The police have now twice been involved in protests by the student organization Students Against the Occupation. This is »completely outside normal standards,« students say. But the University of Copenhagen management says that at a university, you are free to speak, but with responsibility – and without masks.
