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A group of students wants to rally their fellow students for battle: A battle to stop the cutbacks resulting from the Danish government's plans to relocate student places outside Danish cities.
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New corona restrictions have students concerned that universities will return to online teaching, that exams will be changed, and that we will yet again have to give up the routines of normality. But the actual risk of infection does not concern them.
More than 800 people have signed an open letter protesting a proposal by the management of the Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports to close the master's degree programme in clinical nutrition. The decision is a direct consequence of a government plan to relocate university programmes out of Danish cities.
Associate professor in the philosophy of law Jakob Holtermann supports the Chicago principles that Danish parliament debated 2 December. They protect academics' freedom, he says. But the principles are weakened by the fact that they come from the politicians, not the academics.
The old, traditional, Studentergården in the Nørrebro district has a grassroots resident democracy, a tavern, and will soon have its be own pottery room.
Hørhuskollegiet on Amager might look unassuming, but you get a tennis court, sauna, and your own private bathroom included in the price
More than 200 psychology students huddled together for a general meeting and called for a wider academic focus in their study programmes. They voted, and passed a resolution setting out 11 demands. If the students are not heard, they will blockade the department.
Sofiegården has a history as a home to a group of 1960s' squatters’ rights activists. This has been continued, at least in the sense of affordable housing to several hundred students, who run the place themselves.
Controversial associate professor Marianne Stidsen has resigned from her position at the University of Copenhagen after a turbulent few weeks. Her doctoral dissertation is now being investigated for plagiarism, after it emerged some of her other publications contain long passages copied from other texts.
