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Uni of Copenhagen ‘second best in Continental Europe’

The 2016 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), released on Monday, placed the University of Copenhagen as the 30th best university in the world and the second best in Continental Europe.

Uni of Copenhagen ‘second best in Continental Europe’
The University of Copenhagen. Photo: Christoffer Regild
The list, also known as the Shanghai Rankings, was dominated by American universities. Eight of the top ten schools were in the US, led by Harvard, Stanford and California Berkeley in the top three spots. 
 
The UK’s University of Cambridge and University of Oxford rounded out the top ten, at number four and seven respectively. 
 
“Harvard University remains the number one in the world for the 14th year. Berkeley raise from the fourth to the third. Oxford soars from the tenth place to the seventh. ETH Zurich (19th) takes first place in Continental Europe, and University of Copenhagen (31st) in Denmark overtakes Pierre & Marie Curie (39th) in France as the second best university in this area,” a Shanghai Ranking press release stated. 
 
The Danish school’s 30th place ranking was the best ever placing in the ARWU list, which has been released each year since 2003. 
 
Aarhus University also cracked the top 100 in the list, coming it at number 65. The Technical University of Denmark was put in the 100-150 range, in which schools were not assigned a specific ranking. Aalborg University was in the 201-300 range, while the University of Southern Denmark was in the 301-400 range. 
 
The full rankings can be seen here

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ISLAM

Police probe opened after poster campaign against ‘Islamophobic’ lecturers at French university

The French government condemned on Monday a student protest campaign targeting two university professors accused of Islamophobia, saying it could put the lecturers in danger.

Police probe opened after poster campaign against 'Islamophobic' lecturers at French university
Illustration photo: Justin Tallis/AFP

Student groups plastered posters last week on the walls of a leading political science faculty in Grenoble that likened the professors to “fascists” and named them both in a campaign backed by the UNEF student union.

Junior interior minister Marlene Schiappa said the posters and social media comments recalled the online harassment of French schoolteacher Samuel Paty last October, who was beheaded in public after being denounced online for offending Muslims.

“These are really odious acts after what happened with the decapitation of Samuel Paty who was smeared in the same way on social networks,” she said on the BFM news channel. “We can’t put up with this type of thing.”

“When something is viewed as racist or discriminatory, there’s a hierarchy where you can report these types of issues, which will speak to the professor and take action if anything is proven,” Schiappa said.

Sciences Po university, which runs the Institute of Political Studies (IEP) in Grenoble in eastern France, also condemned the campaign on Monday and has filed a criminal complaint.

An investigation has been opened into slander and property damage after the posters saying “Fascists in our lecture halls. Islamophobia kills” were found on the walls of the faculty.

One of the professors is in charge of a course called “Islam and Muslims in contemporary France” while the other is a lecturer in German who has taught at the faculty for 25 years.

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