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Committee: Programmes with no job prospects should accept fewer students

The Bachelor's degree should be four years in Danish universities. And some study programmes should be barred from admitting too many students. Recommendations from the so-called Quality Committee. Will also remove automatic access to Master's from Bachelor's

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New 'global development' programme will combine economics, anthropology and political science

A new English-language Master's program includes on-the-ground field work and cross-disciplinary training

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Security risk management tackled at new Master's programme

A new social science Master's program teaches students to think globally and critically about political security challenges

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Film and media students excluded from Master's programme

Change in procedure at the Faculty of Humanities leaves students unable to continue with their Master's

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Plan: Tougher requirements including minimum grade of '6'

Five-point plan will make it harder to get in to undergraduate programmes at the University of Copenhagen, and increase teaching hours at the Master's level

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German universities now free everywhere, as Lower Saxony ditches tuition fees

The introduction of fees into German universities has been gradually overturned, with the last hold-out federal state stopping them this year. Good riddance, says a German student in Copenhagen

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Education should focus more on jobs, say Liberals

DANISH NEWS: The opposition Liberals have called for a cut in funding for graduate courses that don’t lead to real jobs

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Cheating gets harder as universities up their detection game

For those who want to cheat on their exams, there is the technology. But now universities are escalating

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45 % of Copenhagen's students are stressed - every day

New survey on well-being at the University of Copenhagen: Daily stress, but especially up to exams. Least stressed out is Faculty of Science

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Survey: Students only work 28 hours a week

Students use an average of just 28 hours a week on their studies, according to a new, but already disputed, survey. Debate on how the University of Copenhagen is to get new students to finish their studies faster

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