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»I am keenly aware that the prospect of layoffs has been like a black cloud over this university, and has affected both individual employees and the working environment in general,« says University Director Søren Skydsgaard. This is after the announcement that this autumn's round of layoffs has been cancelled.
The psychedelic substance psilocybin can have a healing effect on people with psychiatric disorders. At the Copenhagen University Clinic for Psychedelic Research, they treat patients with therapy and a psilocybin trip, and the results are promising.
Once threatened with closure, the University of Copenhagen's aquarium unit in Helsingør is now a popular favourite. Everyone wants to sail out on to the Øresund to see the monster-sized tunas jumping around. The University Post was on a tuna safari.
He calls himself »a huge school person«. But radical activism is more of a draw for Emil Nielsen than his philosophy lectures. We have him recount his journey from school bench to the back of a police car. From Dragon Ball to Karl Marx. From closet anarchist in Herning to spokesperson for Students Against the Occupation.
The University of Copenhagen should not take part in activities that take place on occupied land, the rector emphasizes, because that is what Danish foreign policy is. But the university should never, on its own initiative, restrict its own freedom because then the institution loses credibility. The University Post has spoken to Henrik C. Wegener about an academic boycott.
The Sino-Danish Center (SDC) was set up to strengthen research collaboration between Denmark and China. Now it is at the centre of a complex dilemma between academic freedom and national security. And in the meantime, Danish students and researchers continue to be sent to China.
Rector remains the highest-paid employee at the University of Copenhagen. This is what he, and the rest of senior management, earn a year.
