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The future is now in the balance for technical and administrative staff with the upcoming reform to University of Copenhagen (UCPH) administration. A total of DKK 300 million is to be cut from the budget. 380 full-time equivalent staff positions are to be abolished. Many employees are to be placed in new units.
A green circular building on North Campus has become a kind of ‘Dragon’s Den’ for budding new businesses.
Gender-segregated prayer rooms and a Ramadan dinner with a Quran recitation do not belong in a public educational institution like the University of Copenhagen. This is according to MP Mikkel Bjørn of the Danish People's Party. And the rector agrees with him.
»I'm disappointed and sad,« students say after the University of Copenhagen’s governing Board decided to continue a current investment strategy which includes companies operating in illegal Israeli settlements.
The Faculty of Law is well equipped for wheelchair users. We were given a guided tour by law student Emilie Ghali, who has only positive things to say about the accessibility at her faculty. She feels one hundred percent included.
The University Post went on a malodorous search for the rebellious messages that students traditionally exchanged in the campus privies. But the writing on the wall for 2024 is all ... gone? Some people miss the graffiti. But the janitors don't.
The University of Copenhagen can admit up to 180 new international students this summer. Prorector for Education says its »great news« but has not yet decided where the student places will be set up.
»We have to find a way to get in the door,« says Rebecca Knirke of Student Against the Occupation. She will hand over 2,000 new protest signatures to the university’s governing Board.
Efter flere måneders demokratisk diskussion præsenterer KU’s første klimasamling nu 27 forslag til, hvordan SAMF kan reducere sit klimaaftryk. Dekanen er positiv og kalder forslagene »realistiske og konkrete«.
The war between Israel and Hamas is in almost all of the conversations on the Middle Eastern studies programme at the University of Copenhagen. Students disagree over subtle details: but all the sympathy is on one side, says one student on the Arabic-language line.
