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Politics

University to fire 130 staff

130 staff from the University of Copenhagen faculties and central administration are to lose their jobs. This is according to an official statement from the Rector's office, citing budget cutbacks

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International

Massive student protests in Germany and Austria

University fees, declining standards and oversubscribed courses have sparked a month of student demonstrations and sit-ins in Switzerland, Austria and Germany

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Opinion

Climate threatens world food supply

In the midst of the countdown to COP 15, a new University of Copenhagen programme is to focus on climate change and food supply. Climate changes can not be isolated from the issue of our crops and agriculture. So says the director of the new initiative, who has authored this feature for the University Post

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Culture

Meeting for spouses on Monday

Members of the International Spouse Network are meeting again Monday 30 November. Remind your husbands and wives if they have forgotten about it!

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Campus

Guide: Music at the Studenterhuset

Gigs are the sunshine for the mind in the darkest time (...winter). Studenterhuset is host to a lot of them in the coming weeks, and it’s really cheap. In fact, sometimes it’s free

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Politics

Climate is future security policy, says Friis

If the fire and safety authorities had a say in it, they would have closed down the party. Connie Hedegaard handed over the post as Minister of Climate and Energy to the University of Copenhagen's Prorector in a jam-packed Climate Ministry canteen

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Politics

Prorector Lykke Friis now a government minister

University of Copenhagen's Lykke Friis gets top government post

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International

UK universities bail students out

As a result of delays to loans and grants, 75 percent of British universities have been forced to bail out students with emergency cash

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Campus

Out of Africa, and into suburbia

Two international students from the Faculty of Life Sciences took off their shoes, and entered a Danish home

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