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290 PhD students want Penkowa re-examined

The University of Copenhagen’s Board of Executives has now received 290 new signatures from PhD students supporting the call for an independent Penkowa inquest

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Science

See, feel, taste the newest research

During the annual Festival of Research, the public can experience the latest scientific developments

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Education

Minister: Books will be sold or given away

After the University of Copenhagen proposed to burn hundreds of thousands of books, a heated debate ensued. Now the Minister of Science has stepped in to save the books

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Science

Method developed to assess air safety

A joint Danish and Icelandic study investigates the fatal effect of volcanic ash on aircrafts and proposes a new method of quickly assessing the risk associated with future eruptions

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Opinion

Comment: Is it better to pay for your education?

Danish Sara Sjölin is studying Economics and Journalism at New York University. Originally sceptical about the high tuition fees, she now wonders if the American system is better than the Danish one

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Campus

Old KUA stripped to the bone

University Post went on a tour with constructor Anders Wede to take a look behind the long graffiti wall shielding off naked, old 'KUA', the former site of the Faculty of Humanities

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Politics

Documentation: Letter from 58 scientists in Milena Penkowa case

Open letter from 58 scientists to the Board of the University of Copenhagen

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Rector apologises in Penkowa case

Ralf Hemmingsen now admits in media for the first time that he, personally, made mistakes in the Penkowa case. Critics dismiss his apology

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Education

Number of full degree applications plunge

Especially Swedish applicants have been hit by new English-language guidelines, interprets University of Copenhagen office, as the pile of full degree applications gets smaller

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Culture

Take a peek inside historical university buildings in Copenhagen

The University of Copenhagen has swapped property, so that it now actually owns the oldest of its own buildings. Take a look at some of them in our gallery

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