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Gang crime, youth housing, and party-switching were all up for debate when the student association Politics and Communication held an election meeting with nine of the most prominent candidates in the municipal elections.
Michelle Bornemann Honoré has received DKK 147,000 to do research on the disease EDS in muscles and jaw joints. She hopes it can help dentists reveal the disease earlier in patients.
Students may no longer park on South Campus. But several of them say that their daily lives depend on being able to get to their studies by car.
Out in the faculties, staff are skeptical about the prospect of losing control of IT departments to a common, bureaucratic organization, says a staff representative. Head of IT says he understands the concerns, but promises to provide good service.
With local elections coming up, the University Post wondered whether international students are even aware that they are also entitled to vote. So, we went off and talked to a couple of international students from UCPH and received some interesting and honest answers.
The University of Copenhagen is to help 10-15 refugees gain a foothold in the labour market. Syrian Noujin Khalil Mamao is the first to start a two-year education internship programme.
Music historian Christine Jeanneret has, after being ‘discovered’ by the Danish Institute in Rome, received a prize for outstanding research into the migration of Italian musicians and opera singers to Copenhagen 250 years ago.
For Denmark, having international students is a profitable thing. This is according to a new analysis by the universities’ interest organisation Danske Universiteter. And it applies even though international students who get SU study grants cost the Danish government DKK 400 million in defaulted debt payments.
New data shows that more than half of newly enrolled students find their study programmes more demanding than they expected.
According to the Danish government, public employees are not entitled to a paid lunch break. And it is ready to support lower-level public managers who take away their employees’ paid break. A staff representative at UCPH responds: Does the government agency want people to be inflexible?
