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The School of Forestry: where a craftsman is the boss of a professor

One University of Copenhagen department can be found in the village of Nødebo by the lake Esrum Sø, where Gribskov forest serves as a backyard. The beautiful surroundings are not your typical campus grounds.

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Education

No coincidence. Causality professor named SCIENCE Teacher of the Year

Professor Jonas Peters has been recognised by SCIENCE students as an inspiring teacher of causality and mathematical models.

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Education

After graduating: "Suddenly I am where my parents have always been”

When the master’s thesis is defended and done. And the 20 years in the classroom are suddenly over. Ahead of you is working life. We talked to five students who are all at this turning point.

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Campus

"I wish I had talked to someone like me when I was at university”

One messed-up exam will not be your downfall. This is according to Karen Riskær Jørgensen, who helps pressured law students on to their next exam - and from university on to a job.

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Education

Turmoil at French universities

French police have the rectors’ permission to use tear gas when students demonstrate. Danish associate professor who teaches at the Sorbonne in Paris is appalled with the situation.

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Campus

Student chaplain: Young people are forced to live up to so many ideals

The past four years, student chaplain Inger Lundager has talked to students at the Faculty of Humanities about everything that hurts in life – from heartache, to stress, to performance anxiety. She believes that young people today have to face too much pressure.

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Education

First-generation students set up network

To have, or not to have, academic parents. This makes a huge difference, according to a group of students who have set up a network for first generation scholars.

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Education

Most evil University of Copenhagen exams, part 2

You are being tested in, what? Algebra 1, Veterinary pharmacology or New Testament Exegesis 2? We have been delving into statistics and curricula again to find some of the most feared exams at UCPH.

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Education

Taking law off campus

New master’s course at the Faculty of Law for entrepreneur lawyers in close cooperation with Copenhagen startups.

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Culture

No more Icelandic, Old Norse at UCPH

The University of Copenhagen is to shut down its electives in Modern Icelandic, Old Norse and Faroese in 2019 due to a lack of students. The acting dean Jens Erik Mogensen hopes, however, that they will be recreated if UCPH is given a grant from the government.

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