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UCPH to admit 400 fewer students

Both the humanities and science faculties are to admit significantly fewer students this year compared to 2017. The new minimum 6.0 grade point average requirement is a key part of the explanation. The psychology study programme is the hardest to get into.

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Politics

Foundations say they might pay more for UCPH overheads

A number of foundations would pay a larger portion of the universities' costs for administration and rent, if they can document what the money is used for.

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Education

When the summer holidays stress you out

For Ditte Borgvold, a student of German, the summer holidays evoke both fear and a sense of futility. She is not the only student who feels the pressure of the months with no classes, and no structure. But she reckons she has a solution to the problem.

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Campus

After failed IT project: "UCPH has been very unfortunate”

Epos could have been stopped earlier, and UCPH should no longer be a first mover on new IT systems. This is according to members of the University of Copenhagen's staff collaboration committee HSU. They say they understand why the university pulled the plug on the IT project.

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Campus

Lykke Friis to be correspondent for Danish newspaper

The University of Copenhagen's long-standing prorector leaves the world of universities for a job as correspondent for the Danish media Berlingske in Berlin. She offers, in passing, a bit of career advice to UCPH students.

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Campus

The butterflies get their own home in the Botanical Gardens

They are beautiful and they are dazzling. But the butterflies are also important topics for research. The Botanical Gardens has set aside a whole new area for them.

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Campus

University of Copenhagen pulls out of IT project after years of work

After several years UCPH has given up on implementing a new IT system for staff administration. The contract with the supplier has been annulled. UCPH will instead provisionally keep a 20-year-old system running - from the same supplier.

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Campus

The School of Forestry: where a craftsman is the boss of a professor

One University of Copenhagen department can be found in the village of Nødebo by the lake Esrum Sø, where Gribskov forest serves as a backyard. The beautiful surroundings are not your typical campus grounds.

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Science

The insect mobile: Citizen science

UCPH researchers want 300 Danes to help collect flying insects in huge nets mounted on their cars, transforming them into an “insect mobile.” It will be the first study of its kind in Denmark.

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Culture

22 books (and one TV series) for your summer holiday enjoyment

What do you have on your reading list this summer? We asked some of the university’s best-read faculty, staff and students to give us their recommendations for what we should be reading on our holiday

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