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The government will not register foreign agents at Danish universities

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Education

Timeline: 13 cuts to Danish humanities since 2011

The University of Copenhagen is about to cut admissions to the Faculty of Humanities by a quarter as a result of the government's relocation plan. But this is just the latest jaw-dropping development in a decade of bad news for the humanities. See the timeline here.

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Student life

Review: Hvidovre Hospitals Kollegium — the party dorm outside the city

20 minutes with public transport from Copenhagen Central Station is the Hvidovre Hospitals Kollegium dorm with parties, excitement, and cheap rent.

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Politics

Top professor decries state of Danish research: »20 years we will never get back«

If politicians do not put a stop to the »extreme top-down management« at universities, Danish research will suffer damage that it will take decades to rectify. The stark warning is from Ole Wæver and several of his colleagues who now present six proposals to reverse the downward spiral.

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Science

He has faced death. And the stress of the world of research

Mountaineering has been an escape for the geologist Kristoffer Szilas. And it has allowed him to handle the ‘indescribably harsh environment’ in which young researchers have to live.

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Opinion

The Humanities of the Future

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Student life

Review: G. A. Hagemanns Kollegium – rich traditions in lavish surroundings

The luxurious G.A. Hagemanns Kollegium, which boasts its own private chef, a grand piano and two of J.F. Willumsen's most famous paintings, has something to offer for both geeks and partygoers.

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Student life

Review: CPH Village — the toy house settlements

If you are looking for a milder version of dorm life without ancient traditions and house meetings, CPH Village offers a container village out in the Refshaleøen quarter or in Vesterbro.

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Politics

UCPH humanities faculty to slash student admissions by 24 per cent

A total of 1,590 student places will be cut at the University of Copenhagen. Most of them at the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Science.

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Student life

Review: 4. Maj Kollegiet and Hassagers Kollegium — dorms within a dorm

Students living in these Frederiksberg dorms commemorate Denmark's liberation with a gala dinner and celebrate the founder's birthday with copious amounts of cake. The dorms share same building, one inside the other, like nesting dolls.

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