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Denmark runner-up in EU innovation race

The 2011 Innovation Union Scoreboard gives Denmark second place in Europe in research and innovation. Sweden takes first

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Universities struggle in ‘brain game’ with restrictive policies

New research looks closely at Danish universities’ policies to get more students from abroad

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DPP: Foreigners should be put out of shelters

As shelters overflow in the freezing weather, the anti-immigrant Danish People's Party wants police to make sure illegal immigrants are not taking up space

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For Greek student, there is just the pizzeria

Evangelos, a Copenhagen graduate, wants to make a living in Denmark. Going back to crisis-ridden Greece is senseless. But the ‘networking’ here is also proving illusory

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Students stay if they have a job offer, love

Choosing to stay in Denmark is choosing a new identity, home, status and life stage. So what on earth is going on in international students’ heads? And how does the economic recession affect it?

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Board votes in favour of new Complaints Officer

University of Copenhagen's governing board passes a controversial motion to set up a DKK 2.0m student complaints office

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Staff, students: Democratic councils a sham

The University of Copenhagen is to set up democratically elected councils at 50 departments and institutes for staff and students. But staff and student reps says the University is only 'ticking boxes', and that the councils are just window-dressing

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Davos blog: Hanging out with Helle

In Davos so far, I have been rubbing shoulders with the powerful and the famous. Like a young blonde Danish Prime Minister and a Nobel in Economics

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Climate sceptic lashes out after losing funding

As the Copenhagen Consensus think tank loses government funding, its director, the renowned 'sceptical environmentalist' Bjørn Lomborg, says he is the victim of the personal politics of the Danish Prime Minister

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Minister: All Danish students should go abroad

A term of study at a foreign university should be obligatory for all Danish students. This is according to the Minister of Education, who repeats an idea from the former government that was resisted by students and universities

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