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Labour market talks: Uni staff want cash on the table

Private sector organisations have started negotiating wages and benefits for the coming year. For the first time since the crisis, there is money on the table. But the agreements will also be about new rights. The results will show what staff at universities can expect

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Campus

Forestry professor kills Copenhagen pee tree story

News station TV2 reckoned that two beautiful old linden trees between Trinitatis Church and the Studenterhuset café have been cut down because they had been urinated into oblivion. But does the story hold water?

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Campus

The forgotten collection

In the basement of the old Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University deformed animals are kept in formalin. The veterinary collection of deformities has lost its scientific value, but it is a cultural treasure that is in danger of disappearing

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Campus

The university's - No Copenhagen's! - most attractive workplace

The University of Copenhagen let the press in to the Maersk Tower one week before the official inauguration. We were blown away. What do you think?

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Campus

Mathias Heinze has never had so much fun – as on an Excel spreadsheet

He is the best in Denmark at working with a spreadsheet and he is heading for the World Cup. Political science student Mathias explains why he has so much fun on Excel, that he can easily spend 14 hours a day on it

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Science

UCPH scientists identify climate-friendly gas alternative

A new gas affects global warming 93 per cent less than the gas presently used in the electricity grid's substations. Researcher from the University of Copenhagen leads the team that has identified the substance

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Education

Examiner never showed up - students turned up in vain

Group of political science students waited in vain to be examined. The examiner had mistaken the date

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Student life

Review: Oresundskollegiet (second review)

Things have changed quite a bit since we looked at Oresundskollegiet back in 2014. The University Post dropped by to see what life is like now at the dorm. Here is our updated review for 2017.

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Politics

What should we ask the ‘Minister for the Future’?

The University Post has got an interview with the new Minister for Education and Research Søren Pind (V). What should we ask him?

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Campus

See my student job: Cecilie is a guide at the Planetarium

Students at the University of Copenhagen work jobs an average of five hours a week, but what do they do when they clock in at a student job? The University Post asked several students how they spend their days

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