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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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Campus

»I watch porn when I'm stressed out«

Twenty courageous students share their experiences with porn.

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Politics

Student grant SU reform back on the negotiating table

From 2019, Danish SU student grants will be 20 per cent lower and limited to five years. The government's 2025 plan maintains SU cuts.

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Politics

After dismissals, dentistry school in the doldrums

The remaining staff at the School of Dentistry are to have their well-being improved through a collaborative project that will make them more mentally robust. Managers are also following a course.

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Education

9 evil University of Copenhagen exams

Complicated algorithms, microeconomics, the A-Z of film history or Arabic grammar. We have found nine examinations that really have University of Copenhagen students breaking out into a sweat.

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Education

Record number of Danes studying abroad

Since 2011, the number of Danish university students studying abroad has nearly doubled

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Campus

Bike repair shop community wins study environment prize

This year’s study environment award was awarded during campus day at social science campus CSS. The winner is the ‘crank arm' or Pedalarmen initiative – a volunteer driven cycle workshop, which has students from different study programmes meeting over rusty chains and worn out tubes.

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Science

An inventor's triumph and frustration

A new treatment concept that uses pulsating electromagnetic fields can cure patients with chronic depression. But, according to the inventor, it is an open question whether Denmark is too conservative for something so new to win over the health system.

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Campus

Is your data beautiful?

The third annual Art in Science photography contest wants you to show the world what science looks like through your eyes

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Campus

Copenhagen mayor planning 800 temporary student-housing units

Copenhagen’s mayor hopes to take advantage of changes in the zoning law to build housing for students on vacant lots

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