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Free Forum and Conservative Students lose ground as Student Council wins University of Copenhagen Board seat

The Student Council's lead candidate Kevin Olesen has been elected to the the University of Copenhagen Board with an increase in winning margin.

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Culture

Message from the Commemoration Ceremony: Keep your hands off the university!

The University of Copenhagen's Commemoration 2022 was marked by a strange combination of ceremony and activism.

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Opinion

Rector: »What is the opposite of inflation? It is university innovation«

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Academic life

Protests at University of Copenhagen ceremony: »Give Mikkel Vedby the sack!«

Guests turning up at the Commemoration Ceremony at the University of Copenhagen Friday were met with protesters calling for the dismissal of the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

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Education

Dean on appointing himself temporary head of department: »World's worst idea«

Head of Studies Ayo Wahlberg to become acting head at the Department of Anthropology after management turmoil. This was decided shortly before a dialogue meeting organized by students.

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Politics

Conservative Students’ leading candidate: We want to focus on academic standards

The University of Copenhagen has moved too far away from its original purpose. Academic standards are no longer the purpose or the driving force. This is the main challenge, according to Marlene Budolph, who is running for a seat on the Board of the University of Copenhagen.

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Foreninger

Student Council's top candidate wants to be the students' lobbyist

The Student Council's top candidate Kevin Olesen wants to improve the quality of education, better well-being, and to commit the University of Copenhagen to the green transition.

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Politics

Economics Council’s top candidate: Functional impairments need to be written into the university's strategy

Christian Ramon went into student politics to fight for his own rights and for the growing minority of fellow students with special needs

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Politics

Free Forum's top candidate: More student feedback to help fight inequality

Free Forum made gains at the last university elections. Now its leading candidate Kasper Stisen hopes that a focus on inequality, climate, and degree programmes that are better oriented towards the labour market will get him a place on the Board of the University of Copenhagen.

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Culture

Eccentric originals of the Niels Bohr Institute: They stick it out after most of us have given up

The Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen is the setting for an academic and social community of researchers. And it is difficult to leave — even when you hit a pensionable age. At present, 43 active professors and associate professors emeritus have opted out of a well-deserved retirement to volunteer teaching and research in spite of being stuffed into smaller and smaller offices.

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