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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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Setting up an account in Denmark can be a hassle. Here is a primer that will help you make the right banking choices
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.
Margrethe Vestager has taken the long journey from the study of economics at UCPH to the post as EU Competition Commissioner. Now she is made an honorary alumna at her old university.
Kristian Boye Petersen, Faculty Director at the Faculty of Humanities, spends most of his working day on finances and strategy, but he also has some simple assignments. This portrait is part of the article series 'Who are the staff at UCPH?'
