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Even one student or employee exposed to sexual harassment is one too many

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Politics

OK18 deal includes goodies for PhD students and recent graduates

Better pensions for PhD students and paid holidays for graduates are some of the results included in the academic agreement.

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Politics

“The collective agreement is a nice present, soon to be unwrapped”

UCPH staff got a 6.2 per cent pay increase and get to keep their lunch break.

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Campus

People are nicking the knives and forks on South Campus

Humanities people, lawyers, and theologians are increasingly eating off plastic. One reader objects: Plastic cutlery is not a good idea from an environmental point of view.

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Science

Minik Rosing gets the Rungstedlund prize

Geology professor from the University of Copenhagen is the winner of the Rungstedlund Prize, which is awarded by the foundation behind the Karen Blixen Museum.

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Politics

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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