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Students in bed with their phones

Young people are big users of their mobile phones at night. A research project at the University of Copenhagen is to find out how the Danes' mobile habits at night are affecting their health.

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University consigns perfectly good computers and printers to the scrap heap

A large number of computers and printers at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) are to be scrapped and replaced with new ones in the near future. This is to allow for a new, and more secure, operating system. Ludicrous that UCPH does not have a more sustainable plan for replacement, says employee.

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Treading on egg shells: Consensus that UCPH zero-tolerance needs to be amended

Giving offence should not lead directly to a disciplinary meeting. UCPH should amend its guidelines for offensive behaviour in the new year. Most participants agreed with this at an internal debate on the UCPH zero-tolerance policy.

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Students meditate their way out of stress and exam anxiety

A group of students are facing up to the challenge of stress and are meeting regularly to work with their minds. At the meditation community at UCPH they have no hocus pocus, no dogmas and no commercial interests.

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Sustainable student project includes plants powering Christmas lights

Project run by students to get university closer to sustainable development goals.

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"It would be great to be able to celebrate my bachelor’s degree with a 100 kg clean and jerk lift”

24-year-old Mette is a sports science student, has a supplementary subject in Danish, and a student job in the health club Fitness DK. And she is an Olympic weightlifter on the Danish national team.

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Natural history museum fires 17 staff

After a month of uncertainty, it is now clear how many staff are to be fired at the natural history museum. Staff representatives express disappointment in their management. It has failed them, they say.

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The dean's baptism by fire

Three months the Dean of the Faculty of the Humanities - now Jesper Kallestrup has to be front man for a new round of cutbacks at an already hard-hit faculty.

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UCPH to get new centre for concussion

Starting 2019, a new centre at UCPH is to bring together the expertise on concussions and how they are treated. The centre is funded by the Danish government’s rate adjustment pool and will be a unit of the Center for Rehabilitation of Brain Injury.

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Blood, panic and tears: 10 extreme exam blunders

Some exams go just fine. Others, well, don’t. 10 students recount the times when everything that could go wrong, went wrong.

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