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Slump in international student numbers continues

Rude awakening as Copenhagen's drop in international student numbers from last year is repeated. As the University of Copenhagen is forced to zealously apply government restrictions, provincial competitor Aarhus is now nipping at its heels

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Campus

Panum expansion begins with ceremony

The Faculty of Health and Medical sciences has officially started its three year project of constructing a state of the art building and green campus park

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Campus

Building site graffiti is art at Health Faculty

The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences is building a research tower at Panum, so the Faculty has decided to spruce up the grey building site by having graffiti artists decorate the surrounding fence

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Campus

Coming up: student matriculation ceremony

Today at 13:30 the new international students are officially welcomed to the University, with an opportunity to meet the Universities head honchos and other international students

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Science

UVVU committee: Penkowa guilty of bad science

Committee concludes that brain scientist Milena Penkowa is guilty of scientific misconduct. There were too few experimental mice, and methods she used for counting cells were deficient.

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Culture

Breaking your routine

Wanderlust is the urge to go other places. But you don't really have to go far to break your routine. In this special feature, the student magazine Corpus has talked to a PhD student in psychology about the breaking of routines in everyday life

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Campus

Student council launches couch surf housing service

Students in desperate need of a place to live can now borrow other students’ sofas. Or let another student borrow theirs

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Politics

Danish universities envied by top Swedish rector

Danish higher education reforms, including a controversial 2003 university law, praised by Karolinska head

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Politics

Rosy govt. growth projection for Denmark

No great surprises for Finance Minister Bjarne Corydon's budget proposal for 2013. He projects higher growth rates, but still higher unemployment. He wants to spend more on higher education

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Opinion

Comment: This Dane goes biking in Singapore

On a Green Campus initiative in Singapore, I found out that local considerations should be taken into account, before opting for bikes

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