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Education

University of Copenhagen admits 450 more students than last year

All faculties have received more applications than last year, but there are still more available spots left in individual programmes than was the case last year. Psychology remains the degree programme with the highest grade point average.

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Campus

86 employees of the University of Copenhagen have experienced inappropriate sexual advances in the past year

The University of Copenhagen’s guidelines for handling offensive behaviour have been the subject of great debate recently. A new study of the psychological work environment concludes that more than 300 employees have been victims of bullying and harassment in the past year.

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Politics

Educator, digital entrepreneur named new external board members

Birgitte Vedersø, chair of the association of Danish gymnasiums, and Carsten Krogh Gomard, co-founder of Netcompany, have been selected as the Board’s next external members

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Politics

11 projects to turn UCPH strategy words into real action

The Board of Directors at the University of Copenhagen want to spend millions of kroner on 11 projects to turn the university's strategy into more than just a policy document.

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Politics

Friends with benefits: UCPH and Novo go to the next base

The Novo Nordisk Foundation has put billions into the University of Copenhagen. Now one of the top people from the foundation’s company Novo Nordisk has been made the new chairman of the University’s board. What is the significance of the marriage between the university and the pharmaceutical industry?

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Politics

Employees and students to be sent outside - ministers to take control of UCPH Board of Directors

New bill from the Minister for Education and Research Søren Pind (V) means that students and staff will lose their influence on the appointment of the chairman and the external members of the University’s Board of Directors.

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