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The 2003 Danish University Act strengthened universities' ties to society. But according to a thorough investigation, the legislation adversely affected the freedom of research, and it damaged the management and running of the universities.
Negotiations are heating up over a reform to Danish master's degrees. But the government and the universities are still far apart. And universities have to make a choice between a rock and hard place if they want to make concessions to the government's ambitions, according to the UCPH prorector.
Denmark is ranked high in an international study of academic freedom. But two researchers are sceptical about the criteria that the study is based on. And they recommend that academic freedom is enshrined in the Danish constitution.
The study programme ends with one major assignment. And it can be stressful, exhausting, and uplifting, to write it. The University Post has found a few bachelor’s and master’s thesis stories.
Søren Fournais is one of the world's leading researchers into quantum mechanical equations. Now he has to solve mysteries that no-one has ever been able to solve before.
He is a »big Kendrick Lamar fan,« he says referring to the US rapper and songwriter. He plays jazz and tennis in his spare time, and he is still trying to find out what it actually means to be a university director. But Søren Munk Skydsgaard says he is fortunate that it is precisely at the University of Copenhagen that he has landed the job.
On a course on the Sociology programme at the University of Copenhagen, students have been using ChatGPT to understand and interact with theory in new ways. It has lifted the students' academic level, according to the instructor.
Last autumn he was honoured with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. But the next big discoveries risk being smothered under a layer of research funding red tape, according to Morten Meldal.
The chairman of Conservative Students discovered Friday morning 12 May that their offices had been vandalized. A politically motivated attack, according to the student organisation. Management has come out in support of them.
