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Living on DKK 50 a day: My unexpected obsession with savings

Student reporter on the University Post is testing whether he can survive the month of February on DKK 1,500. Here is his status after one week.

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Working environment

Pay boost and flexible benefits in new agreement for staff

State employees — including university staff — can now look forward to more pay, better parental leave terms, and more flexibility. This is after an agreement that also focusses on stress-related illness, says a UCPH union representative.

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Science

Rector: Academic recruitment is now more fragile

At the Royal Danish Academy, David Dreyer Lassen spoke of fierce competition, an increase in fixed-term appointments, and the need for new criteria for recruitment of academics.

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Science

Peas in your dessert? It’s happening

The soya bean is set to be replaced by the Danish pea in plant-based food. University of Copenhagen associate professor explains the sustainable food initiative.

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Education

Crackdown on textbook piracy: Students could face legal action

After years of relying on awareness campaigns, a copyright enforcement group is now stepping up its efforts to combat illegal textbook copying by students at Danish universities.

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Culture

Can you live on DKK 50 a day in Copenhagen? A student experiment

According to a study, one in four students in Denmark live on less than DKK 1,500 a month after expenses. So now I will test this on my own body: Can I live on that for the month of February?

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Student life

First friends, first phrases: Soft landing at the University of Copenhagen

Before the semester starts, exchange students can take a course to get to know their new city — and have a go at the tricky Danish language.

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Working environment

Dean acknowledges fallout from mass layoffs at Faculty of Science

Both research and teaching will feel the aftershocks of the large-scale cuts at the Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, with entire research fields set to disappear. The dean announces tighter financial controls.

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Working environment

Lecturers in limbo: »There’s no job category for people like us«

When their contracts expire this summer, two popular literature lecturers at the University of Copenhagen stand to lose their jobs — or get stuck in positions without any allotted time for research. Their story is not just about them. It is about what research-based teaching should look like in the future.

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Science

Their bachelor's thesis made it into the top-tier journal 'The Lancet'

An internship in Australia set off a research project on functional disorders. Now, two Danish students have published their results in one of the world’s leading medical journals.

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