Opinion

Response to Hans Bonde and Jens Ravnkilde: You need to fact-check and address the historical disadvantage experienced by women

It is about gender quotas and earmarked funding for women in academia. The Danish government’s YDUN programme was a one-off initiative that provided DKK 110m in research funding to female researchers for 2014. Here two professors puts it into a broader perspective

Targeting funding at women researchers is illegal and not meritocratic argues UCPH Professor in response to two Cosmology Professors claiming a "gender inequality ocean"

Copenhagen needs world-class science facilities if it is to compete and attract talent, says international physicist. And it needs a streamlined and agile way of creating and modifying them

UCPH professor Vincent F. Hendricks knows what it's like to be on the receiving end of racial profiling. It is crucial that Denmark resist racial and religious generalisations in the aftermath of the attacks, he says

Affirmative action polices like at the University of Copenhagen to get more women professors will actually do no favours to women, argues Professor Hans Bonde

The Danish - Norwegian relationship is a mass of contradictions

I am the kind of person that goes to a party and hides in the bathroom. The kind of person that takes a walk by myself in the lunch break. I am not shy, and I have no social phobias. I am introverted, I recharge on my own. And this is OK.

It is a government plan to cut down on study places with low employment prospects. But it has a positive side effect. It will also reduce confusion about program choice, says economics student in this featured comment

Some homeless people in Denmark have iPhones. Here's why that's a good thing