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The chairmanship of the Danish Economic Council, the so-called economic wisemen, are not against the Danish SU student grant system. But Denmark gives too much of it away, they write in a new report. A more fair system would turn part of the SU grant into a loan, they say.
Universities need to get a growing share of their funding for research themselves. And if you look at the list of the ten largest contributors, the researchers at the University of Copenhagen seem to be good at it.
For the second year in a row, the Spring Festival was held at full swing in the Universitetsparken – and it even had the summer sun towering in the sky. See the pictures from the party.
Rice plants 'breathe' through a thin gas coating, that works like the gills of fish. UCPH researcher has helped to locate the gene in rice that makes it water resistant for days. Now he wants to solve a wet climate challenge.
De økonomiske vismænd er ikke imod SU, men de skriver i ny rapport, at Danmark giver for meget af den væk. Det retfærdige ville være at lave en del af SU'en om til lån, lyder det.
The University of Copenhagen has (at least) one student who is studying now on his tenth year and who, according to himself, is getting a huge benefit out of it every time he goes on the fresher camp for new students. It works as therapy for new students, and for their tutors.
Sensitive information, including salary data, has been freely available on the University of Copenhagen's servers. New procedures to safeguard the employees’ data introduced
Employees who have the job title of ‘manager’ get significantly higher one-off bonuses than the university's other employees, according to figures from the website Loenoverblik.dk.
The University of Copenhagen is to shut down its electives in Modern Icelandic, Old Norse and Faroese in 2019 due to a lack of students. The acting dean Jens Erik Mogensen hopes, however, that they will be recreated if UCPH is given a grant from the government.
Several students have had their bags stolen while cycling in the area around South campus over the past few months. The police say they do not believe students should feel more unsafe, however.
