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Student housing in Copenhagen: The guide

There are many types of accommodation in Copenhagen. Private rooms, dormitories for students, shared housing, and there is even the option of buying your own place. Here is an overview with links to the most important sites and facebook groups. (Updated 2021)

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Academic life

Associate professor: The world of research is »vicious«

Timing, serendipity, and networking. This was how Jakob Johan Demant — Head of Studies at the Department of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen — landed his permanent position in research. You need to know when to apply for jobs outside your network, he says. As you will not be rewarded for loyalty.

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Education

University of Copenhagen »not protecting students from unfair grading«

When students complain about an exam grade, the faculty does not assess the grade academically, but bases its decision on the examiner’s own statements. An economics student compares it to getting a second opinion from the same doctor who you suspect has given you the wrong diagnosis.

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Politics

Political agreement: University programmes to be relocated out of Danish cities

A wide majority in the Danish parliament has settled on an agreement that aims to create better educational opportunities throughout the country. The University of Copenhagen (UCPH) is expected to cut — or relocate — up to ten per cent of student places before 2030.

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Science

New study: Readers perceive male and female experts as equally competent

A glimmer of hope in the debate over gender equality: Two former UCPH students have co-authored a study which shows that media consumers have equal trust in both male and female experts – at least in written communication.

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Science

International team of researchers want to reinvent the family

In the future we may be able to replace pregnancy with an extracorporeal, artificial, uterus. And what does mum and dad mean anyway? A research team has set out to investigate. They hope, at the same time, to challenge the ideal of the nuclear family .

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Campus

Frederiksberg Campus main building — historical pictures of the University of Copenhagen

Not much has changed about the old Landbohøjskolen main building since 1858, but the city scape has grown and morphed around it

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Campus

Six University of Copenhagen parks and gardens

There are loads of green areas on the University of Copenhagen campus. We did the leg work and review six of the parks here.

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Campus

Old lecture hall on Frederiksberg campus — historical pictures of the University of Copenhagen

A gas explosion destroyed the original lecture hall in the year 2000, but it has since been restored with such attention to detail that the room is almost an exact replica of its former self

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Student life

5 tips for students who struggle to cope with all of it

What do you do if you want to study, do your student job, do volunteer work, see your family, and then still have time to party with your friends? And what about getting involved in politics on the side?

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