Politics

A new fee on residence permits is keeping international PhD students out of Denmark. With applications due this summer, the problem will only get worse, says International Staff Mobility office

Questions forwarded in 2009 to the Research Council by the former Minister of Science Helge Sander were authored by a 'circle of scientists', he says. He thereby once again deflects claims that it was his friend Penkowa herself who wrote them

The University of Copenhagen has been put under supervision. But this does not mean that the management is no longer running the University of Copenhagen, says Minister after a turbulent week

Controversial neuroscientist promoted herself as head of a department that didn’t exist

Penkowa managed to change the make-up of the scientific committee set down to re-examine her dissertation

Only an estimated 200 people turned out for the management briefing on the Penkowa case late Tuesday. This was in spite of an e-mail circular sent out to all staff and students. Subsequent comments suggest that staff and students were at work, and that the message did not get out to everyone

The Minister of Science has put the University of Copenhagen under close government supervision, after the University's own board cleared its own management of responsibility in Penkowa case Tuesday

University of Copenhagen management did nothing that was not in line with standard procedure, says Board chairman

Board believes Rector Ralf Hemmingsen's claim that he made the call to the laboratory to check up on it. He didn’t take notes

The University's legal advisors, 'Kammeradvokaten', conclude that Rector Ralf Hemmingsen did not break the law at any point during the Penkowa case