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Cuts force pharma to shed 4,200 teaching hours

The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences is to cut 4,200 teaching hours in the coming academic year. This raises concerns among students and business

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New minister faced baptism of fire on TV

Flawed exam questions, no time for learning, and tuition fees. Viewers questioned the new Minister of Science on TV

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University director clashes with strongest critic

We may have strong management, but it is not our management. So said academic Sune Auken as he faced down University of Copenhagen director Jørgen Honoré in a one-off battle of the titans

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Massive support for law professor’s petition

An appeal by law professor Eva Smith in aid of children in Danish asylum centres has already got 27,580 signatures. The children are suffering, she says, and it is time to do something about it

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Weak Student Council smile

The huge Novo donation to the University of Copenhagen is fine. But education should not be given a low priority while fancy specific research projects are embellished, say student representatives

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Islam scholar was a crowd magnet

Tariq Ramadan packed the hall, yet turned out to be not so controversial

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Stranded whales, trash helicopters and rebels

As European education reform was celebrated officially in the Imperial Palace in Vienna, our reporter went alternative. Follow her tour of the counter-summit

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For Italian group, Vienna is a beginning

200 Italian activists turned up at the alternative summit in Vienna. Two of them plan to get organised in Rome

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Ministers’ Vienna waltz out of step

Critical reports from EU Commission and European university lobbyists come at the worst possible time

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Advert for new prorector in spite of protest

The job of prorector, formerly held by Lykke Friis, is now advertised by the Rector's office. This bypasses staff representatives, who had refused to nominate a candidate for the job because of other staff cutbacks

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