Politics

Rector Ralf Hemmingsen has informed the university board of the exact number of University of Copenhagen employees to be fired. This was at a board meeting yesterday Tuesday

Both the Rector and the Student Council want an alternative model of university funding. Nonetheless, student politicians feel that the Rector ought to discuss the outlook for subjects hit by cutbacks

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

»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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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