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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.
The Anders Bording prizes were awarded on 23rd June, 2017. The University Post received this year’s media prize.
The 2017 Hugo Awards, organised by Film and Media Studies, celebrates the productions of its students. 28 films participated, and seven awards were handed to the winners chosen by a jury of industry professionals.
Prorector for Education Lykke Friis is to take four months research leave in the autumn semester.
27-årige Gildas Hounmanou arbejder med sin ph.d. på Københavns Universitet for at kunne vende tilbage til sit hjemland Benin og bekæmpe de mange udbrud af kolera i hele Afrika.
A group of art students have filled up the courtyard at CSS with installation art. They want to bridge the gap between art and the university. But how do the students and staff react to the works of art?
