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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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Student life

Somewhere on campus, one Olympic medal winner is writing his master's thesis

Joachim Sutton won a bronze medal in rowing at the Tokyo Olympics. Now he is working on his master's thesis in anthropology. And thinking: should he put everything on hold again and go for gold in three years time? Or should he give up rowing altogether?

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Opinion

The government’s regionalisation plan has given UCPH a major task in rethinking degree programmes

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Student life

Review: BaseCamp Copenhagen — a quick room in the inner city

Copenhagen Base Camp is one of the slightly more expensive student residence halls in Copenhagen. But the location in an old barracks on Sølvgade is as central as it can possibly be.

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Campus

Staff spooked by new Faculty of Humanities sensors

The sensors are ostensibly to make the cleaning more efficient at the faculty, but employees fear that the data will be used to cut back on office workspaces. The campus manager denies the claims.

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Campus

Two students are turning your bad habits into brisk business

Two students of agroeconomics on Frederiksberg Campus at the University of Copenhagen have a company that runs two snack machines and a coffee vending machine for when the canteens are closed.

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Student life

Review: Valkendorfs Kollegium has a garden in the city. And chickens

What you pay in rent is a secret, as it is supposed to be more than just the dream of a cheap place to live that attracts new residents to Valkendorfs Kollegium. Garden days, mushroom-picking trips, and a strong sense of community is the spirit of this college.

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People

When the cancer scientist's husband got cancer

The disease which Karen Husby spends all her working hours trying to understand, has taken up residence inside her husband. This has changed the way she sees cancer, and the way she sees life. And it is not necessarily all bad.

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