Debate

Comment: Making malaria pills profitable

A Health Impact Fund would encourage research into neglected diseases such as malaria, by making cures for the diseases of the poor as lucrative as new hair loss remedies, writes philosopher Thomas Pogge

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Philosopher fights for fair drug prices

Comment: Danes, why not try to liven it up a ...

We all know the Danish way: At concerts, people don’t dance. And more than that, they give you mean looks when you cheer, writes Anda Comanescu, exchange student from Romania

Comment: Women’s Day’s work is not yet done

Following the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, Anna Prokop reflects on how far feminism has come. There is still an ‘untapped gold mine’ of potential in women, she says.

Comment: Colour-coded in Copenhagen

Our literary editor ponders the significance of yellow and the yellow card

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Comment: Request your own interpreter

Comment: Subtitling (personal) history does not work

University Post forced to slim down

Universitetsavisen / University Post has been forced to cut back six editions of the printed newspaper annually, with the budget for the Danish and English-language web editions reduced

University of Copenhagen, constantly in the red?

For the second year in a row, the University of Copenhagen has had to let staff go because of a bad economy. Leif Søndergaard, staff representative for academic employees at the university, comments on the effects of repeated rounds of cutbacks

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50 jobs axed at Faculty of Life Sciences

Forest and Landscape faces drastic cutbacks

Comment: Losing Hopenhagen

The voices of the developing countries are unheard at COP 15, writes Mongolian University of Copenhagen student, Batzul Gerelsaikhan, in a letter to the University Post

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IN-SITE VIEWS - How to break messages encoded into Danish

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Internationals bombarded with Danish e-mails

Forced to Google-translate e-mails

Climate threatens world food supply

In the midst of the countdown to COP 15, a new University of Copenhagen programme is to focus on climate change and food supply. Climate changes can not be isolated from the issue of our crops and agriculture. So says the director of the new initiative, who has authored this feature for the University Post

Comment: Subtitling (personal) history does ...

IN-SITE VIEWS - Our literary editor watched the Danish Berlin Wall anniversary play and was not amused

Comment: Watch out for your storyline...

The University Post should pull its socks up. This is according to a literary editor and international spouse in Copenhagen

Neo-liberalism, socialism: Never the same again

Governments of the US and UK have grown continuously for the past decades. What exactly is happening here and what can we expect in the future? The University Post sought out an answer from the political theorist Noel Parker

Comment: Copenhagen should send relay team

Call for action: Gijs Stevers from Holland blows the trumpet for Copenhagen, and asks for a running team

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Life scientists and physicists dominated DHL relay event

Bikes united the university