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Accept help, find the people who are like you, and focus on the things that really interest you. Bella Neergaard has autism and ADHD. Here is her best pieces of advice on how to get through university for others who are in the same situation.
After two boom years with record numbers of applicants and admissions to the University of Copenhagen it is now going the other way. Almost 500 fewer new students will be enrolled this September. But the trend does not have management worried.
She inherited the Faculty of Humanities when her predecessor quit. With her one hand she has to restore trust within the faculty. With the other she has to cut 300 student places. What on earth does the dean Kirsten Busch Nielsen actually intend to do?
An exam in science theory for physics at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) descended into chaos as students were given the wrong set of exam questions. After a confusing process, the exam was finally cancelled.
Prorector Bente Stallknecht needs more details on the relocation agreement that will have the University of Copenhagen setting up a medical degree programme in the town of Køge. Because there is so little funding available, a large part of the teaching will take place in Copenhagen anyway.
Why do you study gender research at uni when it only leads to hostility when you talk about it? We went to the Centre for Gender, Sexuality and Difference and asked three young research interns.
Associate professor of law Hin-Yan Liu has been named Lecturer of the Year. And this in spite of the fact that according to him he actually does no lecturing. He would rather discuss with his students, and walk away from the classroom with enough material for half a book.
Hin-Yan Liu is popular among his students. He has been voted lecturer of the year.
Written student evaluations of teaching at Danish universities are a useless ritual that wastes the students’ and the instructors’ time according to a sports professor. Two managers agree that the supervision has gotten out of hand.
The University of Copenhagen spends both time and payroll on evaluating the quality of teaching in their courses. But why actually? And what are they used for? Here is an overview.
