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Education

How does UCPH fare in the great quality measurement

120,000 students and recent graduates from across the country have rated the quality of their education. Teachers at the University of Copenhagen get top marks, but on other measurements UCPH is in the middle of the Danish university field.

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Education

Sofie got depressed and took sick leave. She lost her grant and welfare benefits

It came as a shock to a graduate student that she could neither receive a Danish SU study grant nor any welfare payments when she went on sick leave. Patient association criticizes UCPH counselling on the issue

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Education

More dyslexic students get the chance to study at UCPH

Of all the students at the University of Copenhagen with a disability, the largest group has dyslexia, and the group is growing. There may be a good explanation

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Education

Hated printer requirement dropped by Faculty of Law

Students at the Faculty of Law were required to bring their own printer for the exams. Not anymore.

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Campus

When school days are sick days

The University Post spoke with three students who all live with a chronic illness. These are their stories

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Education

Student counsellor fighting for Eastern European Studies

Study and career counselor Thomas Rasmussen sees vast untapped potential in regional studies at the University of Copenhagen.

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Education

New lifeline for Polish and Balkan Studies

The Study Board at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies (ToRS) was informed Monday that a new joint bachelor’s programme for the entire Eastern and South Eastern Studies unit (ØSE) is being reconsidered.

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Education

Rescue operation: Language subjects to be grouped together in Copenhagen and Aarhus

Rectors to save embattled language subjects by pooling them together in two of eight Danish universities. The plan is that the large universities will be language teaching 'powerhouses' in all subjects and through the entire education system.

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Education

Studied Greek: How I became a spin doctor

En klassisk sproguddannelse fra Københavns Universitet kan føre mange steder hen. For Søren Poul Nielsen har den ført til Christiansborg. Han er nyansat særlig rådgiver for undervisningsminister Merete Riisager. Her fortæller han om studietiden, og om hvordan man ender i magtens centrum.

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Education

Examiner never showed up - students turned up in vain

Group of political science students waited in vain to be examined. The examiner had mistaken the date

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