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Jacob Graff Nielsen, who has been dean at the Faculty of Law since 2014, has been reappointed by a unanimous appointment committee. The University Post asked him what he learned from a tumultuous period, and what will happen next.
The start of the semester on a campus without restrictions. A student, a professor, and a plumber talk about what it is like being back on an open South Campus.
Written student evaluations of teaching at Danish universities are a useless ritual that wastes the students’ and the instructors’ time according to a sports professor. Two managers agree that the supervision has gotten out of hand.
The University of Copenhagen spends both time and payroll on evaluating the quality of teaching in their courses. But why actually? And what are they used for? Here is an overview.
The Industrikollegiet in the Copenhagen district of Nørrebro is home to 95 students. They share kitchens and gardens, and have built a hen coop, which also functions as a bar.
The government is to offer the University of Copenhagen a rent discount of up to DKK 100 million a year, pending a number of unsettled arbitration cases. At the same time, the minister promises to help the university if the final rent level is »unsustainable«.
Four new prestige buildings at the University of Copenhagen have ended up as scandals. Why do things go so terribly wrong when things are being built for this university?
Too much research communication is being shelved away and is unnecessarily convoluted, according to curator and former researcher Jacob Lillemose. He now makes his debut with a kind of scientific horror novel that attempts to bring enthusiasm and fun into the world of academia.
The Egmont residence hall has a reputation for being the city's big party dorm, but the place has a lot more to offer than that. The food clubs, a close community, and lots of facilities, all help to bond the 469 residents together.
Students are threatening a blockade, but Head of the Department of Psychology Vibeke Koushede says that the two sides are close to agreement. She hopes that a number of new initiatives will prevent an impending conflict.
