It is to be more than just airport pickups and translations of Danish phrases. It is the Faculty of Humanities' new mentor scheme called the 'QA Programme'

Do you know how to use a computer? Of course you do. A former student of the University of Copenhagen is organising a computers project for young immigrants who have bleak prospects

A small splotch on the world map, Denmark must navigate foreign cultures. The take-home message from a forum for ambassadors, VIPs: 'Bridging cultures'

Bugs reduce pollution, increase nutrition, and should seriously be considered as a food source: This is according to a UN report with University of Copenhagen contribitions

Charge against brain scientist Milena Penkowa was dropped due to a time limit. Not due to the substance of the document fraud allegations, says University of Copenhagen. More details emerge

Scientists need to publish to get research grants - and established scientists are demanding to be cited as co-authors on younger scientists' work. Experts say it's time for more rules

PhD student Annemette Nielsen refused to credit a top scientist and two members of his team as co-authors on her PhD dissertation. She thereby broke an unspoken rule

The strength of interdiscplinary research lies in targeting a problem with a combination of different methods — not using separate, isolated sets of data. Arne Astrup responds

LAB AND LIBRARY: In this first instalment of our new science & research feature, Martin Borch Jensen writes in to tell us about how eating every second day could extend his life

Reserves of gold, used for dentures, is missing from the dentists' school, the Department of Odontology. An external audit proves that no one has been taking stock of the precious metal