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Three universities to let employees keep days off

Three universities have decided they will continue to recognise ‘customary holidays’, reports Avisen.dk. UCPH's administration has yet to decide whether workers will get the days off

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Labour market talks: Uni staff want cash on the table

Private sector organisations have started negotiating wages and benefits for the coming year. For the first time since the crisis, there is money on the table. But the agreements will also be about new rights. The results will show what staff at universities can expect

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What should we ask the ‘Minister for the Future’?

The University Post has got an interview with the new Minister for Education and Research Søren Pind (V). What should we ask him?

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Danish People’s Party wants to shut down University of Copenhagen prayer room

Muslims should not have spaces made available to them in public buildings in Denmark, says MP Marie Krarup, who claims an interfaith 'retreat room' on South Campus, KUA is 'really Islamic’.

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Loss turned into profit – so why cut another DKK 200 million, say staff

A budgeted DKK 132 million loss has turned out to be a profit of DKK 80 million. Yet UCPH is still cutting DKK 200 million. Employees asking why

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Staff at University of Copenhagen may no longer use Uber

University of Copenhagen will no longer reimburse employees’ work taxi receipts if their trip has been via Uber

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Student Council wins Board election in landslide

The Student Council's top candidate Elias Westergaard was elected to the University's Board with 1,480 votes. 15.5 per cent of students voted

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Self-proclaimed 'Minister for the Future' to head the Ministry of Higher Education and Science

With the appointment of Søren Pind, research and education are represented by someone who guarantees publicity and entertainment. Unfortunately, he has not yet held any opinion in public about his new portfolio

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UCPH wasted half a million on consultants to investigate Thybo for misuse of research funds

The University of Copenhagen spent approximately DKK 500, 000 on a Deloitte audit of the research accounts of now-dismissed geology professor Hans Thybo. The auditors only found what a legal expert deems trivialities.

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Meet the candidate: Jacob Stendevad from Conservative Students

UNIVERSITY ELECTIONS - Meet Jacob Stendevad - candidate for the student's seat on the University Board.

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