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Professors don't like RateMyProfessors.com

US, Canadian and UK students can rate their teachers on RateMyProfessors.com. It does not yet exist here in Scandinavia. Keep it that way, say professors, who judge it irrelevant and useless

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Copenhagen not, really, that expensive

Weakening of local currencies, including the euro, against the US dollar makes expensive cities cheaper on ranking

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Danes more tolerant of migrants than EU

Forget the convention that Danes are xenophobic: They accept asylum seekers and immigrants, demonstrates EU poll

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Cape-to-cape biker made it to Copenhagen

He is biking from the North Cape in Norway to the southern tip of Africa, and just passed through Copenhagen. The University Post caught up with Copenhagen graduate Gijs to talk about his plans for visits to renewable energy sites

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Study shows where brains drain, or gain

A new study shows where scientists migrate to, and why. For foreign scientists in Denmark the main motivators are careers and prestige

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In Greece, social media replaces cash

The Greek crisis is boosting a new social phenomenon. So says an Athens PhD student who is living through the crisis and researching it at the same time

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Students are the experts at finding privacy

Forced to stay with their parents, students need creativity to act on their romantic impulses. In southern Europe, this means parties in parks, sex in cars, and an instinct for when mum and dad are out

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Leaving home: The facts

Young people in southern and eastern Europe continue to stay with their parents longer than other Europeans

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Students paralyse Quebec with strikes, demos

Canadian province's plan to increase tuition fees by 75 per cent behind anger and bitterness. Concerted student action culminated over the weekend with police clashes and injuries

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Pain in Spain won't go away

Students can choose between nothing, and nothing, says student union activist in Valencia

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