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Karoline Schnorr has her own business, cultivating organic flowers, alongside her studies in natural resources at UCPH.
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.
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.
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.
What started as a problem with the university’s computers during the summer break that made it impossible for Mikkel Klattrup Larsen to get an extension on his bachelor’s project almost turned into a semester-long wait for him to start his master’s. Only a month-long struggle with the administration prevented the worst from happening. Larsen hopes others don’t have to go through what he did
Minister for Higher Education Tommy Ahlers (V) proposes extending bachelor graduates’ legal right of admission to master’s programmes to three years, removing grade bonuses, and making it easier for students to design their own programme of study. He will not, however, change the study progress reform and cap on education programmes.
According to Universities Denmark figures, the annual two per cent cut to education programmes has so far cost hundreds of employees their jobs at the University of Copenhagen.
About 2,700 new students were welcomed by UCPH rector and deans (and the University Post) at the Matriculation Ceremony last Friday. Our photographer was there too.
For years now the politicians have given students the stick with reforms and admonitions. Now the politicians and pundits suddenly feel sorry for them. Studies show that students are not happy. But can Generation Stress believe that things will get any better, the author of this article asks, and recalls his own life as a slacker.
The majority of students at the Department of Psychology are women under 25 from affluent families. The department’s management calls for more diversity on the programme and has set off a debate on future admission procedures.
