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Layoffs coming up at the forestry college

Looming losses on the coming years’ budgets has the Forest and Landscape College ‘Skovskolen’ firing 10 out of 90 employees. Management has already been cut back.

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Education

Plant and environmental sciences dismiss 17 employees – 10 pct. of permanent staff

The Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences is to cut staff after a series of setbacks that include winning external research projects that drain budgets.

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Education

More students taking student jobs

The Danish Study Progress Reform has not had any impact on the number of students taking student jobs. Quite the contrary, more students have student jobs now than three years ago, according to new figures from the Danish Association of Masters and PhDs (DM).

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Education

A retired Dane gets hired in China

For professor Jørgen Bo Larson, retired life is still full of adventure. He will move to a completely different culture, and continue his passion for working with forests.

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Education

If necessary, EU Commissioner Vestager got up at 4 in the morning... and studied

Saturday 6th October 2018, Margrethe Vestager became an honorary alumna at the University of Copenhagen. Here she talks about her life as a student of economics. About studying when others went out on the town. About changing her study programme from the inside. And about what she took along with her when she graduated.

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Education

Social sciences faculty to educate future masters’ students in big data science

A new master’s program will train economists, political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists and psychologists to gather and analyse big data.

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Education

Student entrepreneur is breeding organic flowers

Karoline Schnorr has her own business, cultivating organic flowers, alongside her studies in natural resources at UCPH.

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Education

UCPH drops seven places to 116 on Times Higher Education ranking

The University of Copenhagen has dropped from number 109 to 116 on the Times Higher Education list of the world's best universities. UCPH is still Denmark's best university.

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Education

Students making eco-friendly medicine for future Mars inhabitants

A group of students from eight different study programmes are in one laboratory at the Thorvaldsensvej street complex. They have one goal. They have dedicated their summer holidays to making a mobile medicine ‘suitcase’ that future Mars inhabitants can take with them into space.

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Education

No dressing up as a Native American, a Mexican, or an Olympic athlete

Management at the Faculty of Law have expressly forbidden theme parties where new students dress up like Mexicans, Olympic athletes of different nationalities, and theologians. But you are welcome to dress up as ‘rich kids' and high achievers.

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