University of Copenhagen
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Politics
Universities Denmark welcomes the new government’s focus on research, while student representatives criticise the lack of attention to higher education and student grants.
Education
After a year and a half of negotiations, the Royal Danish Library and Danish Universities have given up on reaching a new agreement with Oxford University Press. In the humanities, Associate Professor Christian Dahl fears that researchers and students will overlook important knowledge.
Science
For 70 years, the University of Copenhagen’s living gene bank Pometet has preserved old fruit varieties, experimented with new cultivation methods, and fought to hold on to space in a surrounding world that has repeatedly tried to build over it.
Working environment
12 percent of the technical-administrative staff covered by the University of Copenhagen’s administrative reform report sickness absence due to work pressure and stress. University Director Søren Munk Skydsgaard calls the figure »too high« and links it to new managers, new tasks, and an administration where not everything has yet fallen into place.
Politics
The Liberal Party wants to double the number of young conscripts to 13,000 by 2035. But according to a University of Copenhagen researcher, the impact depends entirely on what the soldiers will be used for — and whether the armed forces can handle them.
Science
Research team at the Niels Bohr Institute cracked the enigma of red light sources in the early universe. We talked to the astrophysicists who were first to unravel the mystery.
