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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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Education

The study programme that is driving people nuts

The bachelor's degree in animal science and the master’s degree in animal science are part of the same programme of study. Yet they belong, administratively, to two different faculties. For students, this has turned life into an administrative obstacle course.

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Education

Dead students walking

What is it like to follow a study programme that is soon to shut down? We asked two humanities students

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Education

Tanja took extra course - now she can’t enter master’s programme

Tanja Andersen finished her bachelor's degree in Japanese studies last summer and has spent a semester improving her skills outside university. But now her application to continue with her master’s has been rejected, and she is left with no way to finish her education

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Education

In Sweden where the grass is greener

Four Danish students talk about why they have chosen to study at Lund University on the other side of the Øresund, in Sweden instead of the University of Copenhagen: They point to interdisciplinarity, and the freedom to select your own education from 2,000 courses

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