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Here is a possible solution to all of those who miss the old university buildings in the inner city: Buy them. Price still unknown.
Come and help us party with UCPH at the Copenhagen Pride Parade on Saturday, 19th August.
Your alcohol consumption during the start of your study affects your well-being on your study programme. A survey from the Danish Evaluation Institute shows that students who either drink a lot, or who don’t drink at all during the start of their study programme have a greater risk of dropping out.
Hidden fees, incomprehensible contracts, lack of linnens, deceit, and a total lack of service. Those are the charges levelled against the UCPH Housing Foundation by the leadership of an international literary institute from Harvard. The foundation acknowledges certain mistakes.
Two UCPH researchers confirm in an article in Nature that there are traces of life in the world's oldest rocks. The rocks are in Greenland and are 3.7 billion years old. The two have used a completely new method.
Rural interest group LF wants to move all study programmes that are relevant to agriculture away from the city of Copenhagen. This will lead to a fragmentation of the UCPH research environments. And it will destroy research, according to Dean of the Faculty of Science.
The Danish parliament can now take stock of the nation’s prayer room situation. Universities differ from other education institutions in that almost all of them have rooms you can pray and meditate in. The University of Copenhagen in particular has quite a few.
UCPH is admitting 7,270 new students. The natural sciences are attracting more students, while the humanities subjects are attracting less. See which programmes are the hardest to get into - and read why UCPH wants to abolish the grade bonus.
The Faculty of Humanities has received 16.2 per cent fewer applications than last year. Several major humanities programmes now have the lowest number of applications since 2008. Student Council and the Associate Dean reckon it is due to government reforms and humanities-bashing in the press.
In 2014, Mohannad Aloula fled, on his own, from Syria to Denmark to avoid the forces of Assad. Now he is doing an internship at the Department of Chemistry while studying at the adult education college VUC. In his homeland he studied chemistry, and he hopes to start biochemistry next summer.
