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Dragon’s Den celebrity the new Danish Minister for Research and Education

Businessman Tommy Ahlers to be the new education and research minister for the Liberal Party.

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Science

Morten Rievers Heiberg awarded the Queen's science prize

Professor in Spanish History Morten Rievers Heiberg was awarded the Queen Margrethe II science prize on 18th April. We caught up with him for a Q & A before the ceremony.

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Politics

Lockout called off at UCPH

Saturday evening 28th April and state employees could breathe a sigh of relief. Negotiators for the 120,000 state employees, including this university’s 9,390 employees, landed their part of a collective labour agreement.

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Campus

Can I write my name on your uni?

A handwritten message on an advertisement-financed notepad raises the question: Who can buy advertising at the University of Copenhagen? And the question goes both for a notepad of 14 centimetres to a 75 metre tall building.

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Campus

Critical students teaching their own classes

New, critical student associations are sprouting up at several UCPH departments. They are associations that reckon that the university is not educating them in all of the relevant aspects of their subjects. In the associations, the students have taken the matter into their own hands and educate themselves and each other.

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Campus

Lykke Friis to step down as prorector

Prorector for Education Lykke Friis steps down after nine years at the University of Copenhagen. Lykke Friis has chosen not to seek an extension of her current contract, which will expire in August.

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Campus

The spirit of 1968 is about to pass away

Poor old student rebellion. Its victories are about to end up as defeats for the university today, and its best thinking has been forgotten. And where can you find a living ‘68er’, when today's students are under such pressure?

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Campus

Danish banks for dummies

Setting up an account in Denmark can be a hassle. Here is a primer that will help you make the right banking choices

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Opinion

The Fallibility of the Scientific Method

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Culture

Lars Von Trier got a prize and a million kroner - here are 18 quotes from his acceptance speech

Lars von Trier was awarded the Sonning Prize on 19th April , Denmark's biggest award in the realm of culture. In his acceptance speech, he spoke of his time as a student at the University of Copenhagen and, playing on the medieval title, that rector was 'the nicest magnificus in the world'. Here are 18 of the best quotes from his speech.

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