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EU wants education to be growth engine

While education in Europe has seen layoffs, cutbacks and declining teaching standards, the EU paradoxically wishes to boost its economy by focussing on university funding in 2010

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International

Border controls to keep bogus students out

Students hoping to win a university spot in the English-speaking world might be out of luck. Both Australia, the UK and the USA have tightened visa regulations

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Campus

Denmark charmed more students last year

International students flocked to Denmark last year, and more specifically to the University of Copenhagen

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Campus

Students get together to find Lost

Every Monday international students get together to watch the last season of the famous TV series 'Lost', which is in its last season. Our reporter was there

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Culture

´Whacking the barrel´ for Fastelavn

The traditional Danish Fastelavn festival was enacted by international students from all over the world

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Politics

Staff reps play hard ball

No new prorector while university employees are being fired, insist staff representatives on the University of Copenhagen's General Collaboration Committee. Defying management plans, they refuse to nominate a candidate for the job

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Politics

Why us? Deans attempt to explain in newsletters

Toxic issue of staff cuts in the most-affected Science and Life faculties is taken on by the deans

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Science

Kierkegaard thinkers team up with the theologians

Three new PhD grants for Kierkegaard research mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Danish thinker in 2013. This was announced at a ceremony marking the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre’s merger with the University of Copenhagen

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Culture

Student fights high prices with Fashion Week event

One international student is tired of ridiculously overpriced restaurants and impossible exclusive guest lists. She has introduced the concept of guerilla dining to Copenhagen.

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Science

Copenhagen scientists map genes of extinct human

Ancient Greenlander ‘Inuk’ was bald, dark, and his forefathers were from Siberia, scientists say

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