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The annual event is to change its name and concept to involve young people across genders, ethnicity, culture and religion.
When scientist Anna Xavier went on maternity leave, her research ended up being credited to other scientists. The case is not unique. And a key organiser of the #pleasedontstealmywork movement now calls for political action in Denmark.
Professor Kjeld Møllgård has a long career behind him, including as Rector of the University of Copenhagen. His biggest achievement, however, was when he recently found a new cerebral membrane.
Dogukan Jesper Gür has contacted the University Post on behalf of a number of minority ethnic dentistry students. The students describe how they are the object of systematic discrimination on their study programme, and how management is not taking their problem seriously.
Almost 20 male students on the dentistry master's degree programme have told the University Post that they face discrimination because of their ethnicity. The department management is now launching an internal investigation.
Less help, more reprimands. A feeling of having to overperform every day just to prove that you are suitable for the study programme. Several male, brown-skinned, students explain here what they see as 'systematic discrimination' on the master's degree programme in dentistry.
This is what top researchers at the University of Copenhagen earned in 2021.
All Danish research should be freely accessible by 2025, according to the Danish national strategy for open access. But universities can’t keep up.
Female politicians are referred to less respectfully on the internet than their male colleagues. This places women in politics, and our societies, at a disadvantage, according to one of the researchers behind a new study.
