Debate

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

Analysis: Thoughts on the Thorning government

One of the aims of the new government will be to better integrate Denmark into the European Union, writes Anamaria Dutceac Segesten

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Thorning presents new governing coalition

Comment: We need new statute for selecting leaders

The new merger would be better accepted if at the same time a new statute for the selection of leaders was formulated, argues Life Science professor Mogens Flensted-Jensen

Comment: Explain why we need the merger, please

Vanessa is an Australian postdoc doing stem cell research at the Department of Basic Animal and Veterinary Sciences. She wonders: What is the point of the merger?

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Rector: This is not a 'coup'

Comment: The world that ought to be

Ten years after 9/11, it is time for the Muslim and non-Muslim communities to reset their relationship, argues Ghanian-American student Gregory Agyeman Rockson

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9/11 cover up or crazy conspiracy

Analysis: Death of US public enemy no. 1

Comment: Racism in Denmark

Asian-American Eva Chan scolds Danes for disguising their racism as ‘humour’

Comment: Copenhagen gender policy is unfair

Quota for women in professor jobs undermines science, writes history professor Hans Bonde

Comment: Lots of penis, no balls

Hallie Barrows from New York is slowly recovering from the festival season where she was introduced to the Danes and their strange customs - the hard way!

Comment: What do you want - A tan or a job?

Students at Danish universities should resist the urge to tan on the beach. Instead they should roll up their sleeves and use the summer to further their careers, writes Sara Sjölin from New York

Comment: Danish universities not 'world ...

The Danish academic system offers a number of interesting things, writes international professor Linda Maria Koldau of Aarhus University in this featured comment. But a serious world class education in the Humanities is not necessarily one of them

Comment: Friday = No work, for laid back Danes

Ankit Khandelwal is an Indian student currently pursuing his Master's in chemical and biochemical engineering. He wonders about the peculiar Danish Friday craze

Comment: Law proposal out of touch with reality

Iranian student Alireza Kashani wonders about a new deposit proposal which seems to be designed to prevent non-European students from studying in Denmark

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New visa restrictions for international students

Comment: Self-citations and the case of Milena ...

Why did Milena Penkowa make it so far? The answer is that she published a lot and was heavily cited, argues geologist Peter Riisager. But most of the citations were self-citations

Analysis: Evaluations and their discontents

Lecturer in sociology Leopold Galicki unpacks what anonymous student evaluations say, and don't say, about the quality of a course at university