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Culture

Students prepare for year's biggest event

In the last week of June a old farmer’s field in Roskilde erupts into a temporary party city with over 100,000 guests. Are you ready?

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Campus

Nobel Peace Prize winner revisits Life Science

The Faculty of Life Science hosts a second visit from 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Mathaai

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Politics

Aalborg: Researchers paid for media quotes

Researchers from Aalborg University are financially rewarded when quoted in the media

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International

Hong Kong artist's gift-swap finds a friend in Denmark

For months, Joephy Wong, a Hongkongese art student, has travelled around Europe leaving small, anonymous gifts to strangers. She hopes to start an exchange with people who pick up her gifts. University Post found a dried piece of fruit that she had left in the library in Fiolstræde and decided to track her down

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Campus

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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