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Weekly Intel: Forget Brexit, the populism, the cuts. Staff still believe in internationalisation

The latest university news stories from Copenhagen and beyond

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Campus

The full programme for the Spring Festival

Cancel your weekend trip to Berlin. Here is the lineup for the Spring Festival on 10th May...

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Campus

20 facts about Danish students

Danish students can look forward to an annual salary of DKK 368,965. If you sit next to one of them in class, they are most likely to be a woman. They drink less than their parents did - but much more than their non-Danish, or non-university, friends.

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Education

Experts: Elite administration is about power, and the fear of failure

The administrative elite has grown. Both at the University of Copenhagen, and among its competitors. Three experts doubt that this has led to a better university

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Campus

Administrative elite has taken over Danish universities

While the number of staff at secretary level has been almost halved at the University of Copenhagen, the number of senior consultants has tripled. But this has not made work easier for researchers. According to critics, they spend too much time on administrative tasks.

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International

Weekly Intel: ITU wins Danish open access race / Fungus-growing ants

A summary of a few of the latest university news stories specifically for academic Copenhageners

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Culture

Is meat OK? Student potluck in the age of identity politics

An international group of students at Advanced Migration Studies decided to have a julefrokost. Then someone suggested a totally meat free menu.

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Campus

Where are the green bins on South Campus?

Students at the Faculty of Humanities are surprised they cannot sort their rubbish on campus. Both the citizens and local authorities in this city sort their trash. But this does not apply to all faculties at the University of Copenhagen.

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Education

University of Copenhagen preparing for hard Brexit

A hard, no-deal, Brexit threatens the University of Copenhagen's 41 exchange agreements in the United Kingdom.

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Education

This is what three law students got out of studying humanities students

At the Faculty of Law, students are sent on anthropological fieldwork among 'noble savages' to see the world through new eyes. We followed them.

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