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At the University of Copenhagen, employees with ‘manager’ job titles have, on average, received a significantly higher percentage wage increase than other employees. This can be seen in a calculation by the University Post on the basis of figures from Lønoverblik.dk. UCPH says the calculation is misleading.
»Of course, I should have continued with high school. But never mind that, I don’t regret things. I am happy with where I am today,” says University of Copenhagen grounds officer Jesper Ovesen.
In the Andes Mountains, the young Assistant Professor Mattias Borg Rasmussen has learned about the local value and meanings of water. Here water is a symbol of life, a dwindling and complex resource and a creator of collaborations.
UCPH professor Oluf Borbye Pedersen wins the research communication Forskningskommunikationprisen for his enthusiasm in communicating his research into the countless health-friendly gut bacteria. The prize was awarded on 20th April by Minister Søren Pind.
Humanities people, lawyers, and theologians are increasingly eating off plastic. One reader objects: Plastic cutlery is not a good idea from an environmental point of view.
A handwritten message on an advertisement-financed notepad raises the question: Who can buy advertising at the University of Copenhagen? And the question goes both for a notepad of 14 centimetres to a 75 metre tall building.
New, critical student associations are sprouting up at several UCPH departments. They are associations that reckon that the university is not educating them in all of the relevant aspects of their subjects. In the associations, the students have taken the matter into their own hands and educate themselves and each other.
Prorector for Education Lykke Friis steps down after nine years at the University of Copenhagen. Lykke Friis has chosen not to seek an extension of her current contract, which will expire in August.
Poor old student rebellion. Its victories are about to end up as defeats for the university today, and its best thinking has been forgotten. And where can you find a living ‘68er’, when today's students are under such pressure?
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