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University Post tracks down summer jobs

Not all jobs offered in Denmark during the summer are available to non-Danish speakers. The University Post has gone undercover to see what it is like to find a job as an international student in Copenhagen

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Science

Laser physics to detect explosives, brain impulses

In quantum mechanics, when you measure something you change it. Researchers at the Quantop Center have found a way to circumvent this fundamental limit

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Education

New report: Rankings are useless

Ice cold shower to those who follow university rankings: The first review of major international university rankings published Friday is a damning review of their lack of transparency and unintended consequences

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Campus

War of the Wardrobes: Hong Kong student fashion

War of the Wardrobes round two

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Opinion

Comment: Friday = No work, for laid back Danes

Ankit Khandelwal is an Indian student currently pursuing his Master's in chemical and biochemical engineering. He wonders about the peculiar Danish Friday craze

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Education

Danish students: Older, experienced, slow starters

Eurostudent report has Denmark's students mature, experienced and taking long breaks before university

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Education

Danes study less, and spend less time in class

Danish students spend a sedate 34 hours a week on their studies, and have fewer teaching hours than their European peers

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Campus

Student house with no students

Improvements to the Studenterhuset have left a spacious café cold and empty. Manager confirms that visitor numbers have dropped, and calls on students to help redecorate in order to reverse the trend

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Science

Hard for your future boss to find you

New technologies like job search engines don’t, really, make it easier for employers to find employees, explains Nobel Prize economist to the University Post, who paints a gloomy picture of our current crisis

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Science

Cycling team reaches Northern Cape

Experiment group reaches Nordkapp after fourteen gruelling days of cycling. But it wasn’t over: A battery of tests awaited the hardy cyclists, writes experimenter Katja Kjær in her latest report

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