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Everyone is unique – and yet maybe not quite. Are you one of the many who study within the same subject area as your mother? Do you use snuff tobacco, or artificial intelligence (or maybe a combination of these) to get to grips with your syllabus? Read on and learn more about yourself and your new fellow students.
Technical and administrative employees at UCPH have for a long time been in limbo — awaiting a planned round of layoffs. The layoffs have now been taken off the table. But the criticism of management is still there. The University Director regrets that the process has been so protracted.
The Sino-Danish Center (SDC) was set up to strengthen research collaboration between Denmark and China. Now it is at the centre of a complex dilemma between academic freedom and national security. And in the meantime, Danish students and researchers continue to be sent to China.
It was only on her third attempt that 34-year-old Jannie Kjeldgaard Drews succeeded in landing her spot on the prehistoric archaeology programme. With a fascination for archaeological finds and an unconventional path towards university, she combines a career, her studies and her family life.
UCPH is to reduce new student numbers already from 2025 following the Danish master's degree reform.
Applicant numbers reveal opposition to the government's education policy reforms. This is in spite of a slight increase in admissions to, for example, the University of Copenhagen (UCPH), according to the National Union of Students in Denmark. Chairperson wants to bring attention to the long-term consequences.
Two experts wonder whether the University of Copenhagen has shown sufficient diligence when almost DKK 60 million has been spent on consultants prior to the administration reform. University director defends the big numbers.
280 full-time equivalent staff will be cut from the administration. Chair of the Board stresses that the cuts must be included in any future political demands for savings.
If students are not being taught artificial intelligence, they are not being prepared for the labour market of the real world . This is according to a researcher who encourages the University of Copenhagen to make the new technology a bigger part of students' daily lives.
IT head at the University of Copenhagen says that it was ageing systems that led to a select group of employees having improper access to sensitive personal information from 310,000 students and employees over a longer period of time.
