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UCPH should use more English-language teaching

Teaching in the English language can make UCPH students more aware of the global labour market and get foreign students and researchers to stay in Denmark, according to the Nordic Group for Parallel Language.

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Politics

Closure of Polish studies: Pind understands the ambassador, but...

In a response to Poland's ambassador, Søren Pind, Minister for Higher Education and Research, writes that he understands his concern about the closure of Polish as an independent area of study. But it is not possible for him to take action in this specific case.

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Campus

When it rains on KUA, it drips down on the lawyers

The well-being of the law students who have just moved from the inner city won’t be helped by the rain coming into their new buildings on South Campus.

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Education

Students are spending more time studying

Students in Danish higher education have more hours in class and spend more time preparing than just a few years ago. The Minister for Higher Education is pleased with this development.

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Science

Universities share part of blame for rising distrust in scientists

Disbelief in scientific knowledge is spreading and the universities are partly to blame. That is according to the organizers of a large conference for scientific journalism set to take place in June in Copenhagen.

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Education

763 times ‘no’ to library cuts

The Humanities Council delivered a stack of 763 signatures to Dean Ulf Hedetoft on Friday, 2nd June in protest against the planned cuts to the faculty's libraries

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Campus

"I can make a difference"

Medical student Christine Manich Bech has started up an education project for children in Tanzania. This project is the most important thing for her: Her studies, her student job, and her friends will just have to adjust.

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Education

Andreas de Neergaard new Associate Dean for Education at Social Science

The Faculty of Social Sciences takes on a new associate dean from the Faculty of Science and focuses on globalization, digitalization and data science

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Education

Experts: UCPH problems with study programmes’ quality assurance

The University of Copenhagen will only receive a ‘conditional’ positive accreditation. All new study programmes must seek approval

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Campus

See my student job: “I turn up for work exactly when I want, on the days that I want to”

Anna Strand Thomsen loves her student job as student assistant at the Danish collection and disbursement authority Udbetaling Danmark. She decides what her working hours are herself. And she reckons that she has better working conditions than anyone else she knows personally.

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