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Frue Plads during the Second World War — historical pictures of the University of Copenhagen

During World War II, bunkers were constructed in Frue Plads to provide shelter from air attack

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Campus

The Niels Bohr Institute — historical pictures of the University of Copenhagen

The Niels Bohr Institute began as this single building but has grown to include ten buildings and more than 1,000 international students and staff

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Coronavirus

New Covid-19 exhibition shows medical history in the making

Since the beginning of the pandemic, Medical Museion has collected items that tell the story of how Denmark has managed the disease. Although Covid-19 still shapes our everyday lives to some extent, a new exhibition can help us to start processing it, says the exhibition’s curator.

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Science

»My students can read that their instructor is totalitarian and pseudoscientific«

Elected politicians have accused them of being dishonest, unreliable, and activist as researchers. We let three researchers face up to this criticism – even though they might get more hate mail.

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Campus

Romantic Garden on Frederiksberg campus — historical pictures of the University of Copenhagen

It is nice to see pictures of the so-called Romantic Garden in old pictures. Also the Landbohøjskolen main building, one of many changes to the Frederiksberg campus

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Campus

Central courtyard — historical pictures of the University of Copenhagen

The church and the main building we see at Frue Plads today were reconstructed after they were destroyed during the British bombardment of Copenhagen in 1807

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Education

Unemployment for new graduates went up during the corona crisis. What can we do about it?

Three experts offer their take on how new graduates can get a job faster, even after the corona crisis. »We are dealing with some young people who can have their careers permanently scarred unless we do something,« they say.

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Student life

Danish young people generally do what they are told. But not this one

Research has shown that Danish young people are obedient, conventional, and generally unwilling to engage in activism. We talked to a researcher and an activist student about this.

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Opinion

IF-2000, a highly contagious virus affecting scientists and university administrators

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Education

»We need to dare take political control of where the study programme places are in this country«

Plan will mean that the University of Copenhagen will have to cut, or relocate, approximately 3,500 student places. It is necessary, according to Minister of Higher Education and Science Ane Halsboe-Jørgensen (Social Democrat) Even though this will intensify the race for grades.

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