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Academic Council member: »At first I thought: It cannot be true that there is this discrimination. But I became wiser«

Dogukan Jesper Gür has contacted the University Post on behalf of a number of minority ethnic dentistry students. The students describe how they are the object of systematic discrimination on their study programme, and how management is not taking their problem seriously.

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Opinion

It is provocative and arrogant to reduce the discrimination on the dentistry programme to a question of nervousness and vulnerable students

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Education

Department of Odontology to investigate its study environment after minority students' claims

Almost 20 male students on the dentistry master's degree programme have told the University Post that they face discrimination because of their ethnicity. The department management is now launching an internal investigation.

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Education

Minority dental students: »In the ideal world, we all start at level 0 ... but I feel that we begin at minus 5«

Less help, more reprimands. A feeling of having to overperform every day just to prove that you are suitable for the study programme. Several male, brown-skinned, students explain here what they see as 'systematic discrimination' on the master's degree programme in dentistry.

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People

Top 10: UCPH scientists’ salaries

This is what top researchers at the University of Copenhagen earned in 2021.

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Politics

Danish universities not living up to open access targets

All Danish research should be freely accessible by 2025, according to the Danish national strategy for open access. But universities can’t keep up.

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Politics

First names, family, and appearance: On social media, female politicians are discussed differently

Female politicians are referred to less respectfully on the internet than their male colleagues. This places women in politics, and our societies, at a disadvantage, according to one of the researchers behind a new study.

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Science

Hate speech, proteins and Bourdieu: These University of Copenhagen articles got cited — big time

Which scientific articles from the University of Copenhagen have been influential within their own field? We took a deep dive into some scientific citation numbers.

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Science

Top 10 most cited scientific articles from Denmark 2012-2021

The University Post has extracted the most cited articles by scientists associated with Danish universities from a key citation database, and covering the years 2012-2021.

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People

University of Copenhagen rector and management salaries

Rector remains the highest-paid employee at the University of Copenhagen. This is what he, and the rest of senior management, earn a year.

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