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Chemistry professor and Nobel Prize winner Morten Meldal now appears alongside the giants of Danish history in the portrait gallery at Frederiksborg Castle. The University Post was there for the unveiling of John Kørner’s work.
In the face of what they call »a colossal development task«, University of Copenhagen management has scaled back its criticism and is now hard at work trying to make the reform a success. The prorector for education explains what they are doing to create new programmes.
Highly educated young Americans are losing jobs to AI. Things are not yet that bad in Denmark. But in the long run AI could lead to mass unemployment, says UCPH sociologist.
Final DKK 50 million cut postponed to 2029–2030 — equivalent to 150 full-time salaries. Management expects no major rounds of layoffs, but does not rule out unit-specific dismissals.
The Round Tower’s three-tonne dome has been removed as part of the restoration of what used to be a University of Copenhagen science hub.
Two University of Copenhagen researchers adopt the concept of the »diplomatic extreme« to make sense of the US president’s statements on Greenland.
Bureaucracy is preventing two popular lecturers from being rehired in Comparative Literature. Students push back: »Agus was the highlight of my time at university.«
Maren Lemb has just debuted with a fantasy novel that she started to write at the age of 11. On the Comparative Literature programme at UCPH, where she is a student, no one finds the magical princess twins out of place.
Plans to ban the face veil at the country’s educational institutions follow recommendations from a former government's women’s rights commission. Scholar of Islam says he has never actually seen a niqab there.
A recurring annual DKK 100 million deficit has led to widespread layoffs at the Faculty of Science. Critics decry both the impact on core tasks and the lack of budget oversight, which the Academic Council calls »a collective failure of management«.
