Politics

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?

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

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

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

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

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

Staff and students will spend the greater part of this year not knowing whether or not the university is in serious financial trouble from 2013. This is after politicians refused to commit to long-term funding

The monarchy is an important part of Danish democracy, says prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt after extravagant royal weekend. Others are not so sure

After the scandal of brain scientist Milena Penkowa, university board members agree that students need to be protected by an independent complaints office (an 'ombudsman'). They do not, however, agree on the complaints office' DKK 2.2m cost

As incoming scientists are held up by immigration authorities, the University of Copenhagen is forced to hire people to help get them through the red tape