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Merger controversy addressed head on

At the Faculty of Health Sciences, staff and students were interested, though sceptical, when Rector Ralf Hemmingsen and Dean Ulla Wewer introduced the proposed merger on Tuesday 20 September. Unlike at the morning meetings, staff and students seemed to be more receptive

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Politics

Rector, Dean hit by shower of questions

At the Faculty of Science, top university management tried to explain why a new Science - Life Sciences faculty merger would work

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Opinion

Comment: Explain why we need the merger, please

Vanessa is an Australian postdoc doing stem cell research at the Department of Basic Animal and Veterinary Sciences. She wonders: What is the point of the merger?

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Politics

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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