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The N-word had just been spoken. One group of students just got up and left. Another group of students stayed and defended the instructor. It can be difficult for both students and teaching staff when the ghosts of the past haunt today’s auditoriums. But what is prudence and good practice in teaching at university in 2023?
Rector remains the highest-paid employee at the University of Copenhagen. This is what he, and the rest of senior management, earn a year.
Magnus Pharao Hansen read Tolkien at the age of ten and fell for it. As a teenager, he wrote a dictionary of Old Norse. Today he deciphers ancient Mesoamerican languages and has just got an EU grant of DKK 11 million.
Nima Moradi is a medical student at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH). Between his exams and his work in psychiatry, he fights against the theocratic regime in Iran as an activist in Copenhagen. This includes singing a protest song that silenced its author and had him sent to jail.
Salaries ranged between DKK 121,919 (EUR 16,347 ) and DKK 19,972 (EUR 2,678) a month at the University of Copenhagen in 2023. Here is the full list of job functions and their aggregated pay.
Two out of three Greenlandic students in Denmark encounter prejudice during their study programmes, according to a report from the Danish Institute for Human Rights. An Inuit from the University of Copenhagen explains how he takes care of himself.
Is it the subject, or is it the students? What is the problem when 27.3 per cent of students fail a course?
During the course of their studies, many students get most of their social needs covered at university. But what do you do after you finish your degree? Mikkel Schmidt talks about how he had to both find new interests and friends, and hold on to the old ones.
No need to waste more time wondering about whether your study programme is a good choice. Well at least astrologically speaking, that is. Here is the guide.
