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Academic life

»I take a lot of heat for standing by convictions at the university«

»Closeted centre-right students« praise her for standing by her convictions in the media, but on campus political science student Cille Hald Egholm is often isolated because of her political beliefs.

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Politics

»I believe in two genders and that’s practically a forbidden belief out here«

As a student with centre-right politics at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Copenhagen, you have to censor yourself and your opinions to get by says political science student and active member of the Conservative People’s Party’s youth organisation, Christian Vigilius.

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Politics

»When it comes to open dialogue, CSS is the most restrictive environment I have ever encountered«

At the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Copenhagen, there are right opinions and there are wrong opinions. According to political science student Thomas Rohden people are quick to label others racists or transphobes.

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Education

By the numbers: Here are this year’s least and most popular programmes

Medicine is once again at the top of the list, Odontology and Political Science are steadily climbing, and the trend of more women than men applying continues.

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Campus

Intro week: who bears responsibility for the pig heads and herring gags?

Is it only individual tutors who should foot the bill when an intro week party goes overboard? Or does the problem run deeper? New research shows that there is a link between introduction week activities and the culture within a specific academic field.

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Campus

Guideline change requires rector approval for VIP visits

A guideline adopted two days after the visit of Catalonian leader Carles Puigdemont instructs event organisers to inform the rector if they invite a VIP

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Campus

This is why the University of Copenhagen has agreed to a visit from Puigdemont

Arrest warrant or not, the exiled Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont is welcome at UCPH so students can meet politics in all its real complexity. This is according to Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen, Head of the Department of Political Science.

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