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Students block access to key university buildings

Hundreds of students have since early Monday morning blockaded key departments at the University of Copenhagen, protesting cutbacks and the shedding of jobs

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Is the burqa report scientifically sound?

»Swindle and humbug« and »amateurish«. Pia Kjærsgaard of the right-wing Dansk Folkeparti [Danish People’s Party, ed.] and Conservative politician Naser Khader were pulling no punches, after the controversial burqa report was made public. Experts in scientific theory and method defend the University of Copenhagen researchers who compiled the report, and say that the criticism is political.

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Danish students protest privatisation plans

The National Union of Students in Denmark has reacted to Science Minister Helge Sander’s plans to privatise Danish universities with an emphatic thumbs down. And they have called him a liar.

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Only three women in Denmark wear burqa

The number of Muslim women in Denmark who wear the burqa can be counted on one hand, according to the newly released results of a new study conducted by the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Cross-Cultural and Religious Studies

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No miracles at the Department of Biology

The staff at the Department of Biology took it with a healthy amount of calm and gallows humour, as the Head of the Department explained that a lot of people will have to be let go for the second year in a row. DKK 16 million will need to be saved this time

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Pachauri talks climate for beginners

When chairman of a Nobel Prize winning institution talks about climate change, you expect it to be inspiring. Unfortunately, Dr. Rajendra Pachauri of the IPCC, speaking at the University of Copenhagen Tuesday, failed to deliver

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Climate protests: The world is watching

On Sunday, 249 were arrested as police shut down an anti-capitalist climate protest, when activists from all over the world marched to the harbor and set up a blockade. University Post reporter Emil Verner was on location to give a first-hand account

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»All my bets are on a climate agreement«

Will a watered-down global climate agreement do more harm than good? Why not try radical geo-engineering solutions if disaster is looming? The University Post interviews German climate scientist Hans Joachim Schellnhuber to get some answers

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Down and out at the alternative climate conference

Packing up for the evening, the University Post looked disapprovingly at the paper chucked around

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Politics

Staff offered one months extra pay to leave

University board passes budget that will mean cutting 130 jobs. Affected staff will get to January to consider going voluntarily

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