Education

Fraud teacher held crime course

A course instructor, who may have held a course at the University of Copenhagen, has apparently lured 87 students to join a bogus course in Criminal Law at Aarhus University. In a strange circumstance, a search on the University Post shows that he attended and asked critical questions at a recent Penkowa hearing

DKK 10 million to Danish-Chinese research centre

A molecular nano-electronics research centre at the Nano-Science Centre that has had its grant period extended. Here the Danish and Chinese specialists meet over research, dinners and... river-rafting

Gallery: Quantum Optics Laboratory

Advanced laser equipment of the Ultra Cold Atoms and Quantum Optics section of the Niels Bohr Institute.

The institute recently moved its laboratories from the H. C. Ørsted Institute to a cellar at the Blegdamsvej 17 address. Read related article here.

Photo captions Jan Westenkær Thomsen, pictures by Ola Jakup Joensen of the Niels Bohr Institute.

Vet students operate on teddy bears

Stuffed animals are operated on by veterinary students at the University of Copenhagen for practice. Juice and cake inside make it more realistic, explains student, who says it helps conquer fears

Boost to Erasmus good news for Copenhagen

A 70 per cent increase in Erasmus programme funding will help universities send and receive more students from abroad. Good news, says International Office to the University Post

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Boom in international students turns to bust

International Office fends off exchange cuts

Lectures? No, I am a humanities student

While health and pharma students attend lectures - humanities and social science students read and write papers

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Here is your typical day

Gallery: Your typical day. The graphs

Asian teams sugar-tongued before law fight

In Copenhagen’s contest, participants measure each other up

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Final countdown for Copenhagen's law team

American teams: Biggest competitor is world hunger

Writing in English is tough, study shows

The subjects are hard enough already. But writing the papers in a language that is not your mother tongue is even harder. New research looks at how international students cope

Find thesis in new University database

Database with all the Master's theses are now online

Final countdown for Copenhagen's law team

If their mix of charm and determination is anything to go by, Christina, Louise, Sinja and Ann Marie could win the 2011 Copenhagen Competition. See how they are preparing for the finals

International students keen on Denmark

Four out of five international students would recommend studying in Denmark, concludes new and extensive survey from the Ministry of Education

New dean to excavate Tripoli’s dark past

42 years of dictatorship. Eight months of bloody rebellion. The new dean of University of Tripoli arrived for his first day of work accompanied by 25 young men with Kalashnikovs and homemade grenades

Students bombard agricultural conference

For two days students from seven different life science universities and faculties throughout Europe met at Wageningen University, the Netherlands to discuss the future of agriculture, and whether our present and future practices are enough to feed a growing planet

Norway still free of charge for non-EU students

Sweden and Denmark have started to charge tuition fees to non-EU students. Not so in Norway. They offer higher education for free. So far

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Swedish jitters over proposed fees for foreigners

Hamburg to scrap tuition fees

Copenhagen up to 135 on Times ranking

Clawing its way back up after last year’s slide, Copenhagen gains from new international diversity measure. But still lags behind Aarhus

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New report: Rankings are useless

Hamburg to scrap tuition fees

Social Democrat-ruled city to get rid of tuition fees for universities by winter 2012

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Dieter and Petra go study abroad

Six times more Germans in six years

Australian professor here for a good laugh

Satire is a dangerous art with the potential to divide and pit people against one another, but also to help us look critically and creatively at ourselves and others. Visiting Australian expert knows about the power of the sketch

Boom in international students turns to bust

The number of Erasmus students goes down as University of Copenhagen struggles to comply with government regulations

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International Office fends off exchange cuts