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Epos could have been stopped earlier, and UCPH should no longer be a first mover on new IT systems. This is according to members of the University of Copenhagen's staff collaboration committee HSU. They say they understand why the university pulled the plug on the IT project.
The University of Copenhagen's long-standing prorector leaves the world of universities for a job as correspondent for the Danish media Berlingske in Berlin. She offers, in passing, a bit of career advice to UCPH students.
They are beautiful and they are dazzling. But the butterflies are also important topics for research. The Botanical Gardens has set aside a whole new area for them.
After several years UCPH has given up on implementing a new IT system for staff administration. The contract with the supplier has been annulled. UCPH will instead provisionally keep a 20-year-old system running - from the same supplier.
One University of Copenhagen department can be found in the village of Nødebo by the lake Esrum Sø, where Gribskov forest serves as a backyard. The beautiful surroundings are not your typical campus grounds.
Anne Tybjærg-Hansen and Kristian Helin have received awards from the Kirsten and Freddy Johansen Foundation for their ground-breaking cardiovascular and epigenetics research
One messed-up exam will not be your downfall. This is according to Karen Riskær Jørgensen, who helps pressured law students on to their next exam - and from university on to a job.
The past four years, student chaplain Inger Lundager has talked to students at the Faculty of Humanities about everything that hurts in life – from heartache, to stress, to performance anxiety. She believes that young people today have to face too much pressure.
After budget overruns on the scale of billions of kroner for the Niels Bohr Building and the Maersk Tower, a new major construction task towers up on the horizon. Now the University of Copenhagen's new Natural History Museum of Denmark is to be excavated in the middle of the capital city. Is this at all possible on budget? Yes, says the government’s new building contractor. Perhaps, says a construction researcher.
Four students tell us what it is like to be a parent at university. Read also about SU and maternity/paternity leave.
