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After 13 years with the Danish Security and Intelligence Service, Esbern Stig Møller will now protect UCPH’s research from espionage by foreign states. But he acknowledges that security may conflict with the University’s openness.
It is now official: This year’s new students met each other, their tutors, and their well-dressed rector for the first time on Friday, August 21.
With the symbolic handshake new students are welcomed to UCPH by The Rector as citizens of the academic republic.
There are only few limits on what materials instructors may present, as long as they serve a legitimate academic purpose, says legal philosopher Jakob v. H. Holtermann. Students must learn to endure the discomfort that teaching may create, he argues.
Universities Denmark welcomes the new government’s focus on research, while student representatives criticise the lack of attention to higher education and student grants.
For 70 years, the University of Copenhagen’s living gene bank Pometet has preserved old fruit varieties, experimented with new cultivation methods, and fought to hold on to space in a surrounding world that has repeatedly tried to build over it.
After a year and a half of negotiations, the Royal Danish Library and Danish Universities have given up on reaching a new agreement with Oxford University Press. In the humanities, Associate Professor Christian Dahl fears that researchers and students will overlook important knowledge.
12 percent of the technical-administrative staff covered by the University of Copenhagen’s administrative reform report sickness absence due to work pressure and stress. University Director Søren Munk Skydsgaard calls the figure »too high« and links it to new managers, new tasks, and an administration where not everything has yet fallen into place.
Five University of Copenhagen students are set to stand trial following an attempt to block and occupy the Museum Building in September 2024. Prorector Kristian Cedervall Lauta describes the events as tragic, but maintains that the university cannot interfere in the court case.
