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Scientific disputes to be put on maps

New Master’s level course will have students graphically representing scientific controversies

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Education

Demo action planned against library closures

As five social science department libraries are threatened with closure, students prepare to protest

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Education

Pharma calls meeting, as disputed report breaks

Proposed merger of University of Copenhagen's Chemistry Departments has faculties jockeying for position. Dean Sven Frøkjær has called in Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences' staff and students for a briefing, and students express fears

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Education

Rector kicks off Strategy 2016

29 April, University of Copenhagen students and staff began the process of developing a new 4-year strategy for the University

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Education

Minister: Books will be sold or given away

After the University of Copenhagen proposed to burn hundreds of thousands of books, a heated debate ensued. Now the Minister of Science has stepped in to save the books

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Education

Number of full degree applications plunge

Especially Swedish applicants have been hit by new English-language guidelines, interprets University of Copenhagen office, as the pile of full degree applications gets smaller

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Education

Dean: We want to give books away

The University of Copenhagen is looking for a way to give away the books it had planned to burn, according to a press release

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Education

Book burn institute librarian: We have no choice

The first piles of books are down in a skip in the cellar, waiting to be either recycled or burnt. And the whole process will take a year and a half, says chairman of the Saxo Institute's library, who explains to the University Post why it has to happen

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Education

Anger after book burning plan

Why burn the books? Politicians are angered by a University of Copenhagen decision to burn several hundred thousand tomes to make room for a new knowledge centre

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Books to be burnt at University of Copenhagen

Hundreds of thousands of books are to be burnt when the Faculty of Humanities merges its libaries into a new knowledge centre in 2013

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