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If the study environment is afflicted by a performance culture, then any changes should start with the students themselves, according to the students behind a club at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences.
Since 2005, a large number of language programmes have been closed down at Danish universities. The Danish government's long-awaited strategy was released in the autumn. But it doesn't solve the problems, say researchers.
A number of lecturers say students are lazy and shouldn’t be students at all in a new study. Associate Dean Jens Erik Mogensen rejects the criticism and says instead that universities need to be better at understanding what students can do. But one experienced lecturer does not buy in to this explanation.
Burdened by stress, lack of rights and temporary contracts, PhD students at the University of Copenhagen are joining together to work to improve their lot
Believe in yourself. Get over the complex. It’s one thing to feel criticised, it’s something else entirely to internalise it. Nor is it necessary. The humanities have something going for them, and, whether the critics like it or not, their time is coming around
The University of Copenhagen slams the door on many applicants with its new minimum average grade requirement of 6.0. Here, three UCPH students talk about how they turned around their poor high school performance to top grades at university.
Law and Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen are a part of a new pilot scheme where bachelor students with fixed employment can do their master’s in four years. At Computer Science, they hope to be able to have their first part-time students starting already this autumn.
The Faculty of Law had forgotten to include the spring season’s national holidays and had put course instruction and exams in the same time slot. The solution – moving all the exams by up to 5 weeks – has set off a series of new problems: Exams are now on top of each other, and students fear that it will impact their grades.
The Minister of Higher Education and Research is considering increasing dentistry student admissions. But this requires more instructors at the Department of Odontology.
1,700 international students have a total of DKK 123 million in Danish SU student loans which are they are not repaying. But the EU Commission does not plan to help the Danish government recover its debts.
