News about Education

Predicting Africa’s Future and its Political Ties to Denmark

Stig Jensen, Associate Professor at the Centre of African Studies, has recently been in the media to discuss Africa’s future and Denmark’s politics regarding Africa.

Large Danish food infrastructure collaboration bears fruit

Companies and research communities have achieved new standards of collaboration through the shared state-of-the-art laboratory center, FOODHAY, setting the stage for the development of cutting-edge knowledge and…

PhD Course: Mechanisms in Innate Immune Signaling

About the course The primary objective of this PhD course is to enable participants to gain comprehensive knowledge of induced innate immune responses, both to microbes (commensals and pathogens) and in inflammatory…

German reading course

In autumn 2023, CIP offers a free "reading course in German for students of the humanities" for all interested students who would like to be better equipped to read texts in German in connection with their studies.

Cosmopolitan nationalism as an analytical lens: Four articulations in education policy

This paper extends Professor Claire Maxwell’s development of the concept of cosmopolitan nationalism (published in 2020 in the British Journal of Sociology of Education’s 40th anniversary special issue: The current and…

Eritrean Conflict on European Territory

In recent news, Associate Professor Stig Jensen details the continual conflict between Eritreans in Europe. Recently, 67 people were taken by the police in Copenhagen as a result of violent counter protests against an…

New Ph.D.: Plugging numbers into a formula isn't physics 

When students view physics formulas only as mathematical tools, they fail to understand physics in a meaningful way. We need to teach students to ask why, says new Ph.D.

Sociological Foundations of Education

Professor Claire Maxwell has led the writing and editing of the book Sociological Foundations of Education - the most recent and authoritative analysis of the field of sociology of education. It was commissioned by…

New Podcast: Language Use at the University of Copenhagen

CIPs has just released the podcast "Language Use at KU," and the first episode is about international staff teaching in Danish as a second language at the University of Copenhagen.

Scientific language cannot be tested solely with pen and paper

Science is not merely a collection of terms and formulas but a practice. Assessing children's knowledge of science through pen-and-paper tests only evaluates a limited portion of what they know, says researcher.

Mads Pedersen-Ebbe Midtbøll

Cand. scient. (biology), Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen

Akila Ravikumar

Cand. scient. (biotechnology), Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen

Henriette Hoffmann-Veltung

Cand. scient. (immunology and inflammation), Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen

New PhD Opportunities at the Centre of African Studies

The Centre of African Studies encourages interested young qualified scholars to apply for the two advertised open PhD positions being advertised at the Faculty of Theology (where CAS is located). The application deadlin…

Are male students more talented?

In the sciences, talented students are perceived as those who ask quirky questions and are confident and playful. But is the deck stacked in such a way that those who are already privileged win? Men are the ones who mos…

Are male students more talented?

In the sciences, talented students are perceived as those who ask quirky questions and are confident and playful. But is the deck stacked in such a way that those who are already privileged win? Men are the ones who mos…

DRA Summer School 2023

This week nearly 130 PhD students attended the summer school, the annual two day’s event arranged by DRA, Drug Research Academy.

DRA Summer School 2023

This week nearly 130 PhD students attended the summer school, the annual two day’s event arranged by DRA, Drug Research Academy.

Paula Penalver Sebastian

Cand. scient. (immunology and inflammation), Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen

The University of Copenhagen is Awarded a Quantum Technology Training Laboratory

With a grant of DKK 49.5 million, the A.P. Møller Foundation (A.P. Møller og Hustru Chastine Mc-Kinney Møllers Fond til almene Formaal) makes it possible to establish a new training laboratory in quantum technology at…

Join The Swedish Drug Delivery Center, NextBioFrom and Nordic POP in their joint event!

Join the competence centers The Swedish Drug Delivery Center, NextBioFrom and Nordic POP in their joint event New Horizons in Drug Delivery and Formulation 2023 the 27-29 November • An international conference where…

Nordic POP workshop Implementing data science in the pharmaceutical education was held August 10th – 11th

On August 10th – 11th the school of pharmacy hosted the Nordic POP workshop Implementing data science in the pharmaceutical education. 30 colleagues from five universities in Norway, Finland and Denmark were gathered…

Unique opportunity for MA-student: Internship at the United Nations Library & Archives Geneva

We are looking for an MA student in history at the Saxo Institute to apply for internships at the UN Library & Archives Geneva in partnership with the Centre for Modern European Studies (CEMES), Saxo Institute. This is …

The Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation

The Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation is pleased to announce a second round for applications to our grant for exchange with Japan - both for students and researchers this year.