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Sylvester studies at the new Sino-Danish Center in Beijing

The House of the Danish Industry Foundation is the new home of the Sino-Danish Center in Beijing, China, where Danish students can choose between seven different master's programmes. Nanotechnology student Sylvester Langvad talked to us about his experiences in Beijing.

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Snapshot from the teaching of urban history

Associate professor in history Jes Fabricius Møller is walking the city with his students. This is about the gentrification of the Islands Brygge district, where "the whole hipster crowd moved in."

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Campus

What’s in Ulla’s purse?

She is the unofficial University of Copenhagen fundraising champion. Ulla Wewer describes her 11 years as Dean of the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences as a 'golden age'. We asked her how she does it.

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Education

Michelle needs to be headstrong to cope with uni

Michelle Jensen managed, despite her mental disability, to go through the first year of her agricultural economics studies in the prescribed time. Yet she fears she may be forced to drop out if she now applies for dispensation for a delay. After the Study Progress Reform, Danish universities do not often give students with disabilities extra time to complete the studies, as this would set off financial penalties.

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Education

He has been ready for university, since he was 11

As a kid, he never learned the multiplication tables. But he caught on to quantum mechanics in fourth grade, and it took him three months to finish his Danish secondary school. Now Max Fischer-Rasmussen is the youngest student at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) – and for the first time surrounded by people who also see the beauty of mathematics.

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Education

Demonstration against cuts to education

Thousands of students turned out yesterday across Denmark, to protest the education cuts proposed by the VLAK-government.

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Education

Student waiting times too long on exam cheating decisions

University of Copenhagen student ambassador Bo Gad Køhlert says that disciplinary cases should be processed faster. And guidelines on what is permitted, and what is not, for exams should be improved.

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Education

In Economics class, students correct each others' assignments

Morten Nyboe Tabor, who teaches at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), has abolished long lectures and passive lessons in front of a blackboard. Instead he has put discussions, quizzes, and task solving on the syllabus. Not everyone is excited about it.

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Latest THE World University Rankings gives high marks Humanities at UCPH

The Faculty of the Humanities rose seven places to 63rd in the 2018 Times Higher Education ranking

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Culture

At Beyoncé course: “Some people think that this subject does not belong at university"

A new course at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies has sparked a debate. The University Post was there for the first class of ‘Beyoncé, gender and race’

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