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If I can inspire the kids, that’s great!

REFUGEE ASSISTANCE – Medicine student Mathilde Baumann works as a volunteer coordinator of tutors to asylum seeker children and immigrant children, while on maternity leave

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Politics

Henrik Dahl is after UCPH administration

BUREAUCRACY – Liberal Alliance’s education and research spokesperson has asked the ministry to spell out how large the University of Copenhagen’s administration and communication department is

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Education

The Utopian University

There lies a university, where the students and employees decide everything. Where there is comprehensive feedback for everyone – and a job waiting at the end of the exam period. The University Post was in Spain to visit the utopian university.

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Education

UCPH authorised to close study programmes

The Danish Agency for Higher Education has now approved the University of Copenhagen’s closure of several small study programmes. Frustrated students question the value of their legal entitlements

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Politics

UCPH taming researchers’ free speech with illegal secrecy clauses

The University of Copenhagen has entered into contracts with the Ministry of the Environment which include non-disclosure clauses, contrary to Danish laws on public administration. “Regrettable,” says Dean John Renner Hansen of the Faculty of Science, who approved the contracts himself

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Science

The truth about the world's oldest shark

The story of a Greenland shark, with an estimated age between 272 to 512 years has gone round the world. PhD student at the University of Copenhagen Julius Nielsen talks about the efforts to estimate the shark's age, and the challenge of getting the media to understand the main message of his research.

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Culture

Get your gay on: Rainbow party at the Pride parade

More than 400 University of Copenhagen’ers paid tribute to the city's diversity and yelled Eurovision Song Contest classics at Saturday's Copenhagen Pride

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Campus

All alone with anorexia

Anorexic philosophy student shares her personal stigma. Looking back at her bachelor she says: People like us need a platform to speak from

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Education

Copenhagen students work the hardest

59 per cent of young people in the Danish capital region work part time jobs while studying. Good job opportunities – and high living expenses – are sending young Copenhageners on to the job market, says an expert

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Culture

UCPH to celebrate diversity in Copenhagen

Be a part of the celebration when the University of Copenhagen dances with Copenhagen Pride Saturday 20 August

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