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Three successful students: We would not have got into UCPH today

The University of Copenhagen slams the door on many applicants with its new minimum average grade requirement of 6.0. Here, three UCPH students talk about how they turned around their poor high school performance to top grades at university.

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Politics

The international interests of UCPH

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Education

You can now do a part-time computer science and law programme

Law and Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen are a part of a new pilot scheme where bachelor students with fixed employment can do their master’s in four years. At Computer Science, they hope to be able to have their first part-time students starting already this autumn.

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Campus

50 UCPH staff reported psychological damage – 0 granted compensation

50 employees at the University of Copenhagen have reported psychological illness as a work-related injury since 2007, but in no case has the injury been recognized. The requirements for compensation are too strict, say experts.

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Culture

When we see dinosaurs, we really see ourselves

Christoffer Zieler of the University Post looks at the past through the perspective of a hen. The combination of fossilized eggs and dinosaur art at the National History Museum of Denmark is a winner.

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Campus

Thomas Bjørnholm leaves the University of Copenhagen after 32 years

University of Copenhagen’s prorector Thomas Bjørnholm is to leave his workplace of 32 years. From now on he will lead the work in allocating the Villum Fonden’s research grants

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Culture

At the end of the rainbow: Winter Pride in the Studenterhuset

Come and join in when the Copenhagen Winter Pride takes over the Studenterhuset and fills it up with a rainbow-coloured mix of events.

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Staff reps warning before deadline on collective agreement

Staff reps at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) are preparing their colleagues for a possible strike and are calling on them to sign up to the AC union to get strike pay.

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Campus

Øresund sensation: Rare species of clam

The unexpected revelation of a type of clam out in the straights between Denmark and Sweden has put the Øresund Aquarium in turmoil. Maybe there are more out there. A diver is to investigate the site, which is being kept a secret, like the lark's nest in Harald Bergstedt's song.

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Science

The mind-bending physics of Scandinavian sea-level change

The Greenland ice sheet is a poster child of climate change. But in the Nordics, what happens in West Antarctica and Alaska has a more profound impact on local sea level rise. Sounds strange? Here’s how it works.

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