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Niels Thordal needed a couple of gap years to zoom in on the right study programme after high school. But he finally found his inspiration by working with giant, deadly, saltwater crocodiles on a safari farm in Australia.
The Danish Building and Property Agency has been removed from the scandalous Niels Bohr Building project. The director resigns from the project. Management of the project has been inadequate, according to a report. Minister says that UCPH does not have to pay the largest part of extra costs.
Local politician Jonas Bjørn Jensen is collecting signatures in favour of youth housing for a couple of thousand students in the old B&W factory halls in the Refshaleøen island district. The current owners of the buildings had never heard of the project, but they don’t reject it offhand.
The House of the Danish Industry Foundation is the new home of the Sino-Danish Center in Beijing, China, where Danish students can choose between seven different master's programmes. Nanotechnology student Sylvester Langvad talked to us about his experiences in Beijing.
Professor emeritus Heine Andersen worries that when publishing can be postponed, research results will be used to promote a political agenda.
The University of Copenhagen forecasted a DKK 101 million budget surplus in 2017, but according to the latest forecast, this year will end on a much bigger DKK 250m. The Chairman of the Board says the university risks an image problem
The Danish Eastern High Court has reduced a penalty given to UCPH for using a foreign examiner without a work permit. UCPH keeps its fast-track license.
Severe funding cuts threatened to decimate the staff at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen. Until someone had a crazy idea.
Associate professor in history Jes Fabricius Møller is walking the city with his students. This is about the gentrification of the Islands Brygge district, where "the whole hipster crowd moved in."
Things don’t look good for the trust between management and staff at the University of Copenhagen. Yet the Board now moves to close down departmental councils which aimed to ensure employee and student involvement. The Board believes in other methods.
