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The start of the semester marks the beginning of a housing hunt for many students, but unfortunately also for housing fraudsters who trick people for thousands of krones. Deputy Chief Superintendent Claus Birkelyng provides some tips on how you can avoid falling victim to housing scams

Female professors earn an average of DKK 24,000 less than their male colleagues in annual salary. Especially the Faculty of Humanities' women are falling behind. They get an average of DKK 86,000 less than the faculty’s male professors – and DKK 113,000 less than the men in the Faculty of Health and Medicine

Free time: Choose between various sporting activities, from mountain climbing and akroyoga to swing dance – and meet other students from different studies

Rector’s comment: Ralf Hemmingsen welcomes the students in an age, where things are not what they once were – and which therefore urgently needs your contribution

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

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

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.

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

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

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.