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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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Campus

Chaos after fire at Denmark's International Kollegium

Sunday night students were evacuated as poisonous smoke seeped in through the ventilation. Four days later, confusion still reigns, with no internet and thieves lurking

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Politics

Dean: Merger will destroy my Faculty

While the Department of Chemistry welcomes the prospect of being merged with chemisty research at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharma's Dean Sven Frøkjær thinks otherwise. The merger would simply destroy a well-functioning research environment, he says

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Campus

Finding work is a full time job

Advice offered on the do’s and don’t's of Danish work culture

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