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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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Opinion

Dean: There will be no dramatic changes at the Department of Anthropology

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Opinion

Anthropology students: We should also have our say

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Opinion

Dean: New Anthropology head of department by this coming summer

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Opinion

Associate professor: The Dean of Social Science has gone completely nuts

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Education

Boys' day out at the women-dominated veterinary programme

For decades, the veterinary medicine programme in Denmark has been packed with high-grade-point-average young women. And this is, increasingly, the case throughout the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. The University Post went to Girls' Day in Science at the UCPH University Teaching Hospital for Large Animals, where a group of boys went against the grain, and invited themselves for a visit.

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The Team

Karen is a cult figure

»We have a student counsellor called Karen. She is a legend.« We heard this from a law student, and so we looked for Karen. Meet Karen Riskær Jørgensen, student and career guidance counsellor at the Faculty of Law

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Politics

University of Copenhagen PhD student elected to Danish parliament

A number of students and staff from the University of Copenhagen ran for parliament for a wide variety of reasons. The University Post asked the candidates how their first election evening as politicians went.

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