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A political majority has decided that Danish universities should cut admissions by one tenth from 2025. Under the agreement, the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) is to reduce its bachelor intake by 11.7 per cent.
Students at the university on Svalbard get a week-long safety course which includes shooting with rifles: They share territory with polar bears. We met up with two UCPH students close to the North Pole who say their experiences are 'supreme' and 'absurdly beautiful'.
Assistant Professor Marie Larsen Ryberg has observed courses where students were completely overwhelmed. But she found that this was precisely where the students learned the most. Here she offers up her advice on how teaching can open up a space for uncertainty.
»If you're going to reach out to young people, you have to be in their place. And this is on platforms like TikTok,« says professor of chemistry Thomas Just Sørensen.
Dalia Kababo is on her third semester in political science and is active in the Students Against the Occupation group. She explains here how the war affects her daily life, and she makes a plea to the university, its staff and its students.
This year's teaching award at the University of Copenhagen goes to Associate Professor of Anthropology Cecilie Rubow. She likes to teach in a knit cap pulled down over her ears, and the students love her academic activism. But she does not see herself as a woman with a cause.
A debate has been set off about instructors' use of language after a group of University of Copenhagen students walked out of a lecture in protest. But we should also discuss the display of violent images, according to an associate professor whose specialty is the visual documentation of violence.
The N-word had just been spoken. One group of students just got up and left. Another group of students stayed and defended the instructor. It can be difficult for both students and teaching staff when the ghosts of the past haunt today’s auditoriums. But what is prudence and good practice in teaching at university in 2023?
Two out of three Greenlandic students in Denmark encounter prejudice during their study programmes, according to a report from the Danish Institute for Human Rights. An Inuit from the University of Copenhagen explains how he takes care of himself.
Is it the subject, or is it the students? What is the problem when 27.3 per cent of students fail a course?
