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Meet the candidate: Elias Westergaard of the Student Council

UNIVERSITY ELECTIONS: Meet Elias Westergaard - candidate for the student seat on the University’s Board

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Education

Disabled students lose study grants if delayed

Students with disabilities are being hit hard by the Danish government’s Study Progress Reform. Even if they manage to get an exemption from the reform’s requirements to finish their studies faster, they lost their Danish SU study grant if they fall behind. ‘Disgraceful’ says a spokesman for the students

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Culture

Great Bake Off winner is a researcher in decaying teeth at UCPH

It was in Paris while an exchange student that Sune Demant got his passion for root canal treatment, and for macarons. The macarons were the cakes he baked and won with at the final of the Danish version of the Great Bake Off

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Education

Humanities students block Dean's Office

Students blockade the Dean's Office, Faculty of Humanities, Tuesday, 15 November, in response to rumours that it plans to shut down and merge department libraries

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Opinion

Board members protest against grounds for professor dismissal

Dismissal case threatens to breach the trust between management and employees, write UCPH Board’s staff representatives in this post

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Politics

New Rector: Henrik C. Wegener to replace Ralf Hemmingsen

Ralf Hemmingsen's replacement will be the current Prorector for DTU, Henrik C. Wegener

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Science

UCPH stood firm: Sacks top geologist

Professor of Geology Hans Thybo has now been dismissed from UCPH after management accused him of putting undue pressure on a young researcher. At the same time, Thybo now files a complaint to the university rector. He says he expects to be reinstated

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Campus

Students threaten action over library closure rumours

Humanities student council considering blocking access to the Dean's Office at the Faculty of Humanities to signal the importance of libraries which face DKK 3 million cuts.

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Campus

Early Christmas present - Political Science party ban called off

Students of political science had been forced to stop all parties on university premises since an intro celebration went off the rails in early September. Now their enforced break is over and students can once again turn up the music and dance the night away

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Politics

UCPH refugee aid held back by lack of refugees

Initiatives by the University of Copenhagen to help refugees with an education have been bogged down in regulations: The University may not offer courses to refugees without residence permits, and the University may not itself decide whether refugees have the prerequisite skills

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