Debate

Comment: Education is not just to get a job

Words like ‘critical skills’ and ‘reflexivity’ are just trendy buzz. Instead we need to imagine a just world, argues Amir Susic, a humanities student at the University of Copenhagen

Comment: Responsibility – where did it go?

Ministers, instead of lashing out at young academics, should speak more about their own responsibility in creating jobs. So says the chairman and vice-chairman of the University of Copenhagen in this featured comment, where they also call for a broader definition of 'innovation'

Comment: How should we respond to the crisis ...

In this featured comment Rector Ralf Hemmingsen and Prorector Thomas Bjørnholm argue that even in times of high unemployment, money should be invested in research and education

Editorial: Cast out to sea with no jobs in sight

If this generation’s time and place is not now. Surely, it will be soon again

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Best and brightest consider leaving – for good

Comment: The Danish flag controversy

…or the relevance of political symbols. Anamaria Dutceac Segesten, a political scientist with an interest in identity, myth and symbols, asks the University Post readers for their thoughts on the Danish flag controversy

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Danish flag rule divides parliament

Comment: A good ‘dan’splanation’ for everything

Comment: 100 years old and still going strong

In this featured comment Rector and Prorector of the University of Copenhagen wish the Student Council a happy birthday, saying that student politicians are dedicated and have a large influence on policy

Comment: Putting the world to rights

Our columnist Kelly Draper is not from the United States. Yet she is sick and tired of people comparing Denmark to it

Comment: New Horizons

In this featured comment Rector and Prorector of the University of Copenhagen argue that the interdisciplinary approach fits perfectly with a new EU research funding programme

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EU Commissioner: EUR 80bn fund to revive Europe

EU ministers discussing huge science boost

Comment: A good ‘dan’splanation’ for everything

Denmark is number one at everything… or not, writes this week's columnist

Comment: Reply to 'Non-Danes kicked out ...

Director of Studies at the Faculty of Humanities replies to University Post story on mentors only being for Danes

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Documentation: E-mail text sent to international mentor applicants

Non-Danes kicked out of mentor group

Comment: Five bad things about ACTA

Stopping copy medicines, counterfeiting. On the surface this sounds like a good thing. But ACTA is far more than this, argues IT student

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ACTA is ‘swatting a fly with a nuke’

Editorial: The lost generation

Students and graduates that leave university now are being cheated out of their future, writes the editor of the University Post

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Lucky Spanish girl gets the job

For Greek student, there is just the pizzeria

Students stay if they have a job offer, love

Universities struggle in ‘brain game’

Comment: What can we learn from Berkeley?

Back from a recent visit to Berkeley, Prorector Thomas Bjørnholm argues in this featured comment for a change at the University of Copenhagen

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Comment: Danish universities not 'world class'

Comment: Less Kafka, more clarity

Comment: Switching over to English

Comment: Switching over to English

Danes switching over from Danish to English is at first a relief, but once you've learned the language a bit and want to practice, it gets annoying, writes Kelly Draper

Comment: Less Kafka, more clarity

A US-inspired tenure track system would attract more international talent from abroad, and stop the 'brain drain' of Danish scientists the other way, argues Prorector Thomas Bjørnholm in this featured comment

Comment: Few lecture hours may be not so bad

Judging from the number of hours in class, it looks like students at Danish universities have it easy. But the Danish system is good for self-motivation, writes American student Hannah Wirtshafter

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Comment: Is it better to pay for your education?

Comment: Learning Danish should be rewarded

You want more international students to speak Danish? Then give them the proper incentives, argues Romanian student

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Business lobby: Learn Danish or get out

Comment: Occupy Wall Street, occupy ...

Copenhagen activist Mads Tofthøj Rasmussen explains why the Occupy Wall Street movement is relevant here, and warns against peak oil, the fallacy of economic growth, and technological unemployment

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Spanish ‘indignant’ protest in Copenhagen

Editorial: Time to log off, look up, and listen

We speak to fewer and fewer people in a meaningful way. And this is in spite of, or even because of, innovations in social media and communications

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Close encounters at the student café

Is Facebook destroying spontaneity?

Students: We are meeting strangers

Comment: Full-degree students need help!

International students who are here to do their Master's are just not given enough help in finding housing, argues Colombian student Felipe Leon. It is time for the University of Copenhagen to step up to its responsibility, he says.

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Housing nightmare for Romanian couple

Clearing up the student housing chaos