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Vandals ravage Conservative Students’ offices

The chairman of Conservative Students discovered Friday morning 12 May that their offices had been vandalized. A politically motivated attack, according to the student organisation. Management has come out in support of them.

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Education

Three rectors look back: 20 years with 30 Danish university reforms

How has a 20-year storm of Danish university reform affected the University of Copenhagen? The rectors of the period, Linda Nielsen, Ralf Hemmingsen and Henrik C. Wegener, give us the inside story.

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Politics

Timeline: The controversial 1-year master’s degree — this is how it came about

The new 1-year master’s degree programme is one of the most comprehensive Danish university reforms in recent times. But how did this proposal actually get off the ground? Here is an overview.

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International

PhD student on controversial Chinese contract: »I feel completely free«

The University of Copenhagen has halted the admission of Chinese PhD students after media revelations of Chinese regime loyalty contracts. Xin Qian — a PhD student with a loyalty contract — is upset about the decision.

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Campus

Government agency: Niels Bohr Building to be completed in March

The Niels Bohr Building ordeal is finally slated to end in March. This is according to the Danish Road Directorate, which says that it will hand over the operation of the building to the University of Copenhagen at the end of next month.

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Politics

Controversial Danish university law now 20 years old. The man who crafted it only regrets one thing

The Danish Universities Act — a piece of legislation that set the direction for Denmark’s universities — has been loved and hated. Does the man who crafted it 20 years ago really still regret nothing?

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Politics

Danish universities not living up to open access targets

All Danish research should be freely accessible by 2025, according to the Danish national strategy for open access. But universities can’t keep up.

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Politics

First names, family, and appearance: On social media, female politicians are discussed differently

Female politicians are referred to less respectfully on the internet than their male colleagues. This places women in politics, and our societies, at a disadvantage, according to one of the researchers behind a new study.

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Politics

Scientific publishers are reaping huge profits from the work of researchers, and the universities are paying for it

They net bigger profit margins than Google, Amazon and Apple from exploiting the free labour of countless researchers. One critic says the scientific publishers are commercial behemoths that are limiting the free flow of knowledge.

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Politics

Free Forum and Conservative Students lose ground as Student Council wins University of Copenhagen Board seat

The Student Council's lead candidate Kevin Olesen has been elected to the the University of Copenhagen Board with an increase in winning margin.

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