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A group of theology students and staff are attempting to create awareness about why the German language is important for their subject. And they are using unconventional methods in the underground movement ‘Deutsch, bitte'.
The Danish Study Progress Reform has not had any impact on the number of students taking student jobs. Quite the contrary, more students have student jobs now than three years ago, according to new figures from the Danish Association of Masters and PhDs (DM).
Peter Elsass has lived with indigenous tribes in Colombia, visited Jonestown shortly before the notorious 1978 massacre and has been held hostage by FARC. For many years, he couldn’t feel fear. Now, the 71-year-old professor emeritus of psychology has released a book about fear and what we can learn from it.
When Danes think of Iran, they should see more than just a backward theocracy. This is the purpose of a new book where seven University of Copenhagen (UCPH) researchers have created a narrative out of Iran's rich political and cultural history.
For professor Jørgen Bo Larson, retired life is still full of adventure. He will move to a completely different culture, and continue his passion for working with forests.
Students and staff can stand for election until 30th October. You can already now see which forums you can vote in.
The boards in Denmark’s research foundations are predominantly men, and male researchers are more likely to get funding than their female colleagues. With the Promote Me campaign, associate professor Vanessa Jane Hall wants to correct this gender imbalance.
Saturday 6th October 2018, Margrethe Vestager became an honorary alumna at the University of Copenhagen. Here she talks about her life as a student of economics. About studying when others went out on the town. About changing her study programme from the inside. And about what she took along with her when she graduated.
A new master’s program will train economists, political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists and psychologists to gather and analyse big data.
The Danish government wants to make it easier to bring in international manpower to Denmark. UCPH welcomes the proposal. New rules are to cut red tape and make it easier to attract top researchers to universities.
