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International researchers leave Denmark after PhD

Denmark has doubled its number of new PhD researchers in the past years, but many of them travel home again once they are finished, concludes a just released report

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Politics

Minister: No more expensive Penkowa probes

Parliamentary hearing on the Milena Penkowa-case led to no big revelations, as opposition spokesmen focussed on the role of former Minister Helge Sander

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Campus

Round 2: The bad, the worse and the ugly

The two first finalists, hoping to win an iPad 1, have been found. Vote on who is to follow them in Round 2 of our competition: The bad, the worse and the ugly.

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Politics

Board defiant before key parliament hearing

Report by critical professors on Penkowa scandal is ‘biased and not based on written data’, writes Board, as it braces for key hearing in parliament today Wednesday

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Campus

800 student residents held hostage with no power, no net

More than a week after the fire in Albertslund, residents are still trying to get the attention of the responsible administrators

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International

Copenhagen student witnessed Jordan protest

University of Copenhagen student Line (cover name, her real name is known by the University Post) was there, when thousand of demonstrators first gathered in Amman, Jordan to demand a new constitution. Her report has come out from an event where two lives were lost, and a hundred of people were injured as the police broke up the demonstration

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International

In Jordan, secret service is on campus

Unlike many other youth rebellions in history, the pro-democracy movement in Jordan has not emerged from the university. On campus, politically active students are threatened with suspension, prison, and violence

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Culture

Literature fans mesmerised by Paul Auster

Superstar author Paul Auster visited Copenhagen last week to receive a title as honorary alumnus at the University of Copenhagen. This reporter was invited to a closed session of dialogue on his literature

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Campus

Dean of Humanities quits job

Kirsten Refsing explains that she 'wants to go back to research', and that others should now be allowed to 'do the motivating'

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Science

Leading Google researcher turns prof

Corinna Cortes, researcher at Google, is an authority in machine learning. In March 2011 she joined the Department of Computer Science as a permanent member

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