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On 22 April, scientists all over the globe will march in co-ordinated protests in 394 cities. Ian Bearden, a physicist and professor at UCPH, is organising the march in Copenhagen because he wants his children to inherit a liveable planet.
Minister for Research Søren Pind has invited representatives from the country's universities and research foundations to a meeting. They are to discuss a strategy and vision for Danish research.
In the beginning of January, adjustments were made to the education cap. Students are now able to study for a new free university degree six years after their final exam. According to the Minister for Higher Education and Science, Søren Pind, the new agreement will affect almost a thousand students.
The University of Copenhagen is to find two new board members, but the question is whether they can make it before the Minister for Higher Education and Science has a new law adopted giving him more power over the process.
New bill from the Minister for Education and Research Søren Pind (V) means that students and staff will lose their influence on the appointment of the chairman and the external members of the University’s Board of Directors.
While it may make sense for Thybo’s boss to fire him, UCPH as a whole has been damaged by the case. Professors calls for job security, even for the scientists who are difficult
A 'Retreat room' or prayer room at The University of Copenhagen has recently been widely debated, even in the Danish Parliament. Two major parties want a national prayer room ban, arguing that such spaces are used by Muslim students to exert social control over their peers. So we took a look at the literature, and it turns out the story of prayer rooms is more complex than that.
Remember the UCPH prayer room out in what they used to call KUA? Now parliament has spent an afternoon discussing whether it (and similar spaces) should be banned.
Ralf Hemmingsen takes stock of 11 years of ups and downs as Rector of the University of Copenhagen. One thing still bugs him. It's not Penkowa. It's about the keys.
