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Staff offered one months extra pay to leave

University board passes budget that will mean cutting 130 jobs. Affected staff will get to January to consider going voluntarily

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Politics

Activist hopes the climate sceptics are right

London-based environmental activist and founder of a project to plant trees in urban spaces will protest at Bella Centre on Saturday. She hopes social action can influence the climate talks

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Politics

Two degrees warmer may be past the tipping point

We are already half way between the dangerous and the catastrophic, warns German climate scientist

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Politics

European universities ruled over by politicians

Autonomy is good for modern universities, but it's not happening, not in Denmark, nor anywhere in Europe in general

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Politics

Student protests at job-cuts meeting (updated)

Protesters donned masks of goverment minister Helge Sander and handed out beer, placing the blame for university job losses

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Politics

Universities against third world proposal

COP-15 has poor countries seeking to unlock intellectual property rights on climate innovations.

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Campus

Photo competition: The deadline approaches

Deadline for submitting photos to the University Post photo competition is in just 2 days time. Don’t miss out on the prizes – upload, send, and win.

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Science

Modern politics is a stifling consensus

The battle between left and right has been called off, according to leftist political intellectual Chantal Mouffe, and she does not like it

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Campus

Vote at the election – if you understand Danish

You are eligible to vote at the upcoming election at the University of Copenhagen. But this is the only information you will get in English

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Education

Students learn Danish to fit into the culture

Many international students in Copenhagen attend courses in the Danish language. Why? To look for jobs, to be taken seriously, and to immerse themselves in Danish culture

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