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Rector: This is not a 'coup'

Merger proposal defended in front of hundreds of angry staff and students at a packed Faculty of Life Sciences

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Politics

Staff, students angered by 24 hr warning

Staff and students frustrated by short, sharp, shocker invitation for key faculty meetings. They will be broadcast two days later, for those that miss them, says vice director for communication

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Politics

Rector proposes merger into two super faculties

In a shock move, University of Copenhagen board and management now propose merging Life Science and Science; Health and Pharma into two larger faculties

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Science

Battle of the brainiacs 2011

Serious brainpower and mountains of cool cash may not always go hand in hand, but if you are clever enough to sign up for this year’s 15 minutes of Brain contest that might be just what you end up having.

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Culture

Go and get your free bike

‘Free Bikes’ gives sponsored bikes to students for one year. After this, the bikes will be sent to students in Africa

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Politics

Prognosis: Social Democrat Thorning to win

Red bloc will get 91 mandates, blue bloc 84, making Helle Thorning-Schmidt of the Social Democrats the new Prime Minister, according to a prognosis now out on national TV DR

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Politics

Danish politics for the brainy

No more ‘for dummies’. This guide is for the brainy ones. See here what the positions of the different parties are on taxation, welfare, immigration, car traffic and more

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Politics

Right now: Danish voters queue up for election

The polls are now open in the Danish general election. Latest polls predict a tight race between the opposition red bloc and the blue bloc, including the present governing parties

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Politics

Thorning new Prime Minister

New Danish government as red bloc parties sweep to victory. Anti-immigrant Danish People’s Party loses

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Science

Danes eat their own words

Danish is hard enough to learn, but even harder to understand. PhD student in phonetics at Copenhagen Business School, Ruben Schachtenhaufen explains why Danish sounds like gibberish

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