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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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Education

10 things I should have known before I started university

Go to re-examination, forget about your grades, and make demands. At the university, there are many new things to deal with, and one is easily overwhelmed. Here, an experienced student tells what she wishes she had known, when she was on the threshold of student life.

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Education

Summer University: Making UCPH relevant to the outside community

Copenhagen Summer University, for specialists and managers, came to an end the 24th of August. It is a program held partly in order to prove that the research done at UCPH is relevant for the outside community. So, is UCPH still relevant?

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Campus

Students stressed out over the race for grades

Every second student at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) experiences stress ‘often’ or ‘very often’ according to a new study from the Danish Association of Masters and PhDs DM. It is especially the examinations and the struggle for good grades that is the stress factor.

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Education

Rectors enrolling speech 2017 was in English all the way

When Rector Henrik C. Wegener gave his enrolling speech at UCPH, he encouraged Danish students to invite the internationals to a candle light dinner to introduce newcomers to Danish hygge.

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