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Applications to humanities subjects in sharp decline

The Faculty of Humanities has received 16.2 per cent fewer applications than last year. Several major humanities programmes now have the lowest number of applications since 2008. Student Council and the Associate Dean reckon it is due to government reforms and humanities-bashing in the press.

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Campus

"I feel like a chemist again"

In 2014, Mohannad Aloula fled, on his own, from Syria to Denmark to avoid the forces of Assad. Now he is doing an internship at the Department of Chemistry while studying at the adult education college VUC. In his homeland he studied chemistry, and he hopes to start biochemistry next summer.

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Education

Cholera kills in Africa – Gildas fights it in Copenhagen

27-årige Gildas Hounmanou arbejder med sin ph.d. på Københavns Universitet for at kunne vende tilbage til sit hjemland Benin og bekæmpe de mange udbrud af kolera i hele Afrika.

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Education

UCPH drops to number 73 on QS world rankings

UCPH is placed well on the new QS World Rankings in spite of a drop in five places worldwide and two places in Europe.

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Education

UCPH should use more English-language teaching

Teaching in the English language can make UCPH students more aware of the global labour market and get foreign students and researchers to stay in Denmark, according to the Nordic Group for Parallel Language.

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Education

Students are spending more time studying

Students in Danish higher education have more hours in class and spend more time preparing than just a few years ago. The Minister for Higher Education is pleased with this development.

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Education

763 times ‘no’ to library cuts

The Humanities Council delivered a stack of 763 signatures to Dean Ulf Hedetoft on Friday, 2nd June in protest against the planned cuts to the faculty's libraries

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Education

Andreas de Neergaard new Associate Dean for Education at Social Science

The Faculty of Social Sciences takes on a new associate dean from the Faculty of Science and focuses on globalization, digitalization and data science

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Education

Experts: UCPH problems with study programmes’ quality assurance

The University of Copenhagen will only receive a ‘conditional’ positive accreditation. All new study programmes must seek approval

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Education

9 evil University of Copenhagen exams

Complicated algorithms, microeconomics, the A-Z of film history or Arabic grammar. We have found nine examinations that really have University of Copenhagen students breaking out into a sweat.

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