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DKK 100m to new UCPH blood cancer research

It is the latest huge grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation to UCPH. Researchers are to find new treatments for two types of blood cancer. The development of drugs for these diseases came to a standstill many years ago.

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Education

»I thought, to hell with it, I am going to study electrical engineering«

Eva Maria liked her humanities subjects, but her master’s couldn’t land her a job. Now she is studying to be an electrical engineer and reckons that the Danish government’s downsizing of study programmes is a good idea.

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Education

Head of Department: Our programme is a success

The Cross-Cultural Studies education programme is a success, and its’ subjects are oriented towards a career in business. This can be seen by the fact that the Confederation of Danish Industry and the Confederation of Danish Enterprise have contributed to it. Department head responds to the criticism by a former student.

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Old theology and law buildings now up for sale

Here is a possible solution to all of those who miss the old university buildings in the inner city: Buy them. Price still unknown.

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Housing Foundation faces new criticism: Misled Harvard summer school

Hidden fees, incomprehensible contracts, lack of linnens, deceit, and a total lack of service. Those are the charges levelled against the UCPH Housing Foundation by the leadership of an international literary institute from Harvard. The foundation acknowledges certain mistakes.

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Politics

Mayors in rural areas want pieces of the University of Copenhagen

Rural interest group LF wants to move all study programmes that are relevant to agriculture away from the city of Copenhagen. This will lead to a fragmentation of the UCPH research environments. And it will destroy research, according to Dean of the Faculty of Science.

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UCPH has an exceptionally high number of prayer rooms

The Danish parliament can now take stock of the nation’s prayer room situation. Universities differ from other education institutions in that almost all of them have rooms you can pray and meditate in. The University of Copenhagen in particular has quite a few.

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Education

Decline in applications, but UCPH still rejecting large numbers

UCPH is admitting 7,270 new students. The natural sciences are attracting more students, while the humanities subjects are attracting less. See which programmes are the hardest to get into - and read why UCPH wants to abolish the grade bonus.

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Friends with benefits: UCPH and Novo go to the next base

The Novo Nordisk Foundation has put billions into the University of Copenhagen. Now one of the top people from the foundation’s company Novo Nordisk has been made the new chairman of the University’s board. What is the significance of the marriage between the university and the pharmaceutical industry?

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In the wake of Wegener

We were allowed to shadow the University of Copenhagen's new rector on an ordinary working day. He was busy. Also busy sitting still.

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