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After 100 years of student sports at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH), the KSI non-profit student sports association is now in danger of being shut down for good.
The government hopes to have part of its expected extra costs for the Niels Bohr Building recovered from the Spanish contractor Inabensa. The preliminary claim is for a half billion Danish kroner plus VAT. It is still uncertain how much UCPH will have to pay.
Refugees who want to take a higher education programme often get lost in Danish regulations and language requirements. Now – like Ousama Alnemer who is from Syria – they can get help from volunteer students.
UCPH does not monitor employees’ use of the web. However, data about people's behaviour on the internet is automatically saved, and if you get a virus, you can be contacted by the IT department.
Plans for a new, expanded Natural History Museum near the Botanical Gardens are ready to move ahead after the selection of Per Aarsleff as the building’s main contractor. If all goes according to schedule, the museum will open its doors in 2020
University of Southern Denmark is now to take over one of the University of Copenhagen’s historical buildings.
Christina Bruun Olsson currently has an exhibition called ‘mandala anthropology’ on South Campus, where she has arranged the content of student and staff bags into beautiful symmetrical patterns. Can the pictures teach us something about each other?
Students have not been able to get management to budge on the South Campus parking ban, which comes into force on 1st January 2018. This is clear after the faculty has chosen not to proceed with students’ proposed alternatives.
Political science students are fond of the hairstyle of Minister for Education Søren Pind, economics students steal most bikes, and sociologists are those that most often wear their socks in bed. Read the results from the 'CSS survey 2017'.
What makes a 40-year-old family man or a 64-year-old pensioner throw themselves into a bachelor's programme? We met four students who chose to change their career path and begin their studies at a later stage in life.
