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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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Education

More students coming to Denmark on Erasmus

Erasmus has students both coming, and going, from Copenhagen and Denmark, the latest data from the EU Commission shows

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Politics

Central administration affected by e-mail outage

E-mail system intermittently up and down Tuesday at the University of Copenhagen, after system is moved to new operations centre at Panum (updated)

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Science

Some PhD students hardly ever talk to supervisors

While most PhD students are in regular communication with their academic supervisors, a small minority of PhDs are in rare or no contact whatsoever

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Science

PhDs want to stay in university

Majority of international PhD students at the University of Copenhagen want to do postdoctoral research or other academic work after finishing their PhD

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Science

Nobel economics prize winner in Copenhagen

Dale T. Mortensen to present lecture on »Markets with Search Friction and the Great Recession« Tuesday where he will also talk about his life in research

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Opinion

Comment: Law proposal out of touch with reality

Iranian student Alireza Kashani wonders about a new deposit proposal which seems to be designed to prevent non-European students from studying in Denmark

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