Politics

As university drama, the case of brain scientist Milena Penkowa is better than fiction. New fans can start here

Father of Penkowa's former student assistant Kristian Kolind has now come forward with a sharp indictment of management in national daily Politiken. The University of Copenhagen has lost all decency, he writes in an op-ed

The entire Board of Executives of the University of Copenhagen has been called in to the Ministry of Science, sources confirm

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