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Coronavirus

Students are raring to go: More than ever want to study abroad

While universities worldwide were closed due to corona, the number of students on exchange reached an all-time low. Now that the world is beginning to open again, more students are applying to study abroad.

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Student life

Studying abroad during corona »was a magical experience«

Despite the corona restrictions, some students were able to study abroad. The University Post asked three of them what it was like.

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Student life

Timeline: Offensive behaviour and identity politics at the University of Copenhagen

It keeps on happening: Stories of sexism and crazy initiation rituals, the global #metoo movement, and guidelines on offensive behaviour keep the University of Copenhagen at the centre of a stormy debate.

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Education

Take better notes: Five tips and tricks for university students

Personally, I take copious amounts of notes. One of the reasons: just taking them is beneficial

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Education

When you take notes you forge a deeper connection to your field

Why take notes? To remember, to understand or to become one with the subject matter? All three, in fact, according to a professor of educational sciences. And according to a handwriting expert, your note-taking techniques have their roots in Antiquity

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Student life

Copenhagen student ended up at deportation facility, sent home to China

After a tumultuous process, master's degree student Bingzhi Zhu has now been sent out of Denmark. Up until the last minute, she tried to get her residence permit extended, without success. »Don't feel sorry for me, feel sorry for the Danish system,« she says.

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Student life

4 tips: How to endure all this online teaching just one tiny, tiny bit longer

Try to enjoy the procrastinating and the delaying. And do a marathon reading session with your study group on FaceTime — advice from an expert in digital communication.

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Coronavirus

Do you turn off your camera when you do your online courses? You are not the only one

Many students never turn on the camera for their online courses. But this can be detrimental to students' social relations and well-being, and it negatively affects instructors' motivation.

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Student life

These 11 Copenhagen-based student start-ups are crushing it

As student-founded companies, they wanted to make their mark on the world. Now, after riding the yo-yo up and down the corona year 2020, they are surviving. And even thriving.

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Campus

10 things you will miss out on as a University of Copenhagen student during corona

In the old days, campus was packed with students. They went on intro camps with no hand sanitizer, and they shared beers and other liquids on packed dance floors. Here is everything that you (perhaps) might never get to experience if you start at the University of Copenhagen this year.

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