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The power of numbers: Woman, know your stats

No, there is not gender equality in Denmark. On Instagram, the feminist Cathrine Berendt has built up a gender-equality platform where she posts the statistics that she feels more Danes should know about.

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Academic life

Young, brilliant, and tired of being underestimated

Physics student Chamilla Terp beat elite international researchers by slicing through an astrophysics mystery. She’d rather talk about her discovery than her gender — and she’s tired of backhanded compliments.

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Academic life

They let in the women — and nothing was ever the same

For nearly 400 years, the University of Copenhagen was a men’s club. Only in 1875 did it reluctantly admit the first women to its lecture halls. We pay tribute to the female pioneers who pursued an education — at their own expense and risk.

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Academic life

Bikes, bars, and big discoveries: An exchange student in Copenhagen

Landon Hildebrandt has traded Vancouver for a semester in Copenhagen, where he’s embracing city life — one bike ride at a time.

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Academic life

Save more, live more: Student budget hacks for Copenhagen

Housing benefits, bike hacks, and a mountain of cheap french fries. You can do many things to get your meagre funds to last that little bit longer. Here are a few University Post life hacks that will get you by until you finally just give up and get that student job.

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Academic life

Victory, as expected, for Student Council at university elections

The lead candidate for the Student Council looks forward to working on the Board and is pleased with a record turnout.

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Academic life

TEST: Can you get around Frederiksberg Campus in a wheelchair?

Frederiksberg campus reminds you of one of those impossible M. C. Escher illusions: Many stairways, and many reasons to just give up.

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Academic life

Students at Palestine event: We need more historical insight and facts

About 75 people had made their way to CSS campus on Monday to hear associate professor emeritus Jørgen Bæk Simonsen lecture on Palestinian history. »Don't ask Google, ask me,« he said at the event that was organized by Students against the Occupation.

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Academic life

Salaries at the University of Copenhagen 2023

Salaries ranged between DKK 121,919 (EUR 16,347 ) and DKK 19,972 (EUR 2,678) a month at the University of Copenhagen in 2023. Here is the full list of job functions and their aggregated pay.

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Academic life

Greenlandic students turn up for class, and face prejudice

Two out of three Greenlandic students in Denmark encounter prejudice during their study programmes, according to a report from the Danish Institute for Human Rights. An Inuit from the University of Copenhagen explains how he takes care of himself.

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