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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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Education

The programmes with the fewest hours in class are at UCPH

When it comes to offering only a few teaching hours to students, the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) is number 1 in Denmark. Member of parliament Kaare Dybvad (S) finds the UCPH teaching hour numbers concerning.

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Education

Master’s degree in stress – when the pressure on students goes too far

It was tough to combine studies, a job search, and family life. But Christina just smiled, and took it all in her stride. At least on Instagram. Until one day she was lying down on the floor of the living room, under the table, unable to move.

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Education

2 new graduates visit 37 islands in 5 months. But why?

After a few years as graduates, these two young scholars had had enough of their lives behind desks. Today they are travelling around Denmark's small islands to do reports on what life is like there.

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Education

Remember your deadlines - or take an involuntary vacation from class

If you miss the deadline for applying to the UCPH master's programmes, you may have to wait six months or a whole year to apply again. Period. Two students at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies (IKK) are in a jam, but the Faculty of Humanities refuses to bend their policy.

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