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Coronavirus

Students at online matriculation: »OK. This thing might get awkward«

For the first time ever, new students at the University of Copenhagen were only welcomed digitally - via video. Four students followed the ceremony from their couch out in the suburbs.

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Campus

Tutor infected with corona – students permitted to go ahead with intro programme

Six additional students on the rhetoric programme at the University of Copenhagen are in self-quarantine. Faculty director 'certain' that more corona cases will be forthcoming, but ready to handle them.

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Education

Corona pandemic has exchange student numbers down by 55 per cent at the University of Copenhagen

Many international students withdrew their applications to the University of Copenhagen during the pandemic. »We can still maintain a good internationalisation of our study programmes,« university states.

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Coronavirus

Staff at the University of Copenhagen can come to work again 15 June

Public sector employees in Eastern Denmark are now allowed to return to their offices this coming Monday, and the University of Copenhagen - in Denmark a public employer - calls it a »fantastic announcement«.

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Coronavirus

Overview: This is how Danish universities will reopen

Scientists can most likely return to their labs in June, and study programmes will most likely reopen in August.

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Coronavirus

Allan Randrup Thomsen speaks to reporters non-stop: »I'm really scared of making a fool of myself«

Few people had heard of the virologist Allan Randrup Thomsen in February, but since March he has become one of the most cited researchers in the Danish media. This puts him in a vulnerable position, especially because he talks out about a virus that no one really knows.

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Coronavirus

Student café Studenterhuset hard hit by corona crisis

Copenhagen’s student café Studenterhuset grapples with an uncertain financial future as the Covid-19 closures and restrictions continue. There are still online events, and the cafés director hopes for financial support from foundations.

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Academic life

Exchange students want rent cancelled on Copenhagen rooms

Several exchange students want their lease contracts terminated on rooms they have through the University of Copenhagen's Housing Foundation. This is after the students have gone home because of the corona crisis. The foundation rejects the students’ demands.

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Education

Holed up in Copenhagen for the Covid-19 shutdown, international students face new challenges

More than half of international students at the University of Copenhagen have gone back to their home countries due to the coronavirus pandemic. For those that have opted to stay, student life is tough.

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Coronavirus

University of Copenhagen: »We need to prevent a cohort of corona graduates«

While all exams are moving online until the summer holidays, the deadlines for bachelor’s degrees will be upheld. The university will, however, make it simpler for students to seek dispensation.

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