Posts Tagged ‘Danish’
Sunday, July 19th, 2009
It appears that Danes are hitting the books again as most of the nation’s major universities have reported sharp increases in their applications for enrollment this year. Upper educational institutions throughout Zealand, Jutland, and Funen are even witnessing record-breaking figures.
The University of Copenhagen saw a 49 per cent increase in its applicants this year, the Copenhagen Post reports, while the University of Aarhus enjoyed a healthy 37 per cent rise in student applicants. For the University of Copenhagen, the 20,619 people who applied to study at the school represented the highest level it has seen in 30 years.
Claus Nielsen, who works at the university’s centre for study and career guidance, thinks several reasons are behind the sudden surge in new applicants for higher education. One of them is the introduction of the bonus rule, which took effect this year. The new rule allows any person who applies to college within two years of completing their qualifying exams to multiply their exam average by 1.08 per cent.
Since last year actually saw a decline in university applications across Denmark, Nielsen thinks many would-be students decided to wait until the bonus rule came into effect to apply for enrollment. The areas of Humanities, Health Sciences, Social Sciences, as well as English-language degrees, are all in hot demand. Foreign students applying for English-language programs are also on the rise throughout the country.
For the full article check out CPHPost.
Tags: Areas Of Humanities, Career Guidance, Claus Nielsen, Copenhagen Post, Danish, Decline, Educational Institutions, English Language Programs, Foreign Students, Funen, Health Sciences, Higher Education, Jutland, Language Degrees, Social Sciences, Student Applicants, Sudden Surge, University Applicants, University Applications, University Of Copenhagen
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Saturday, July 18th, 2009
German, Danish and Norwegian publishers have purchased the rights to Einar Már Gudmundsson’s
Hvíta bókin (“The White Book”), the most recent of the four books that have been published on the Icelandic banking collapse.
Tags: Collapse, Danish, Einar MáR, Four Books, Gudmundsson, Iceland, Norwegian Publishers
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
A high-ranking prison guard, hardcore convicts, a biker gang and prostitutes were just some of the elements involved in Denmark’s latest prison scandal. Copenhagen’s Vestre Faengel prison was the site of the drama, where an experienced guard has been accused of accepting bribes from biker inmates in return for letting them have unfettered access to mobile phones in their cells.
At the centre of the storm is a 51-year-old seasoned guard who has been in charge of the wing housing the prison’s most dangerous convicts for more than a decade. The Copenhagen Post reports the man was brought before a Copenhagen court to face charges of accepting prostitutes and other bribes in exchange for letting hardened gang inmates keep personal mobile phones in their cells.
The wing that the guard supervised held members of the Bandidos biker gang. These biker-criminals are said to have paid the guard more than 20,000 kroner and provided him with regular trysts with prostitutes as payoff over at least a 6-month period.
A tip off from police in North Jutland helped the Copenhagen police open an investigation that ran for weeks and ended in the arrest of the prison guard. He has denied all charges, but a full search of the cellblock turned up mobile phones and lots of other contraband.
Peter Vesterheden, the head of Copenhagen’s prison service, told the B.T. newspaper he was deeply shocked by the incident because the guard was very experienced and had been working for his department for many years.
Tags: Bandidos, Biker Gang, Bribes, Cellblock, Cells, Centre Of The Storm, Copenhagen Post, Dangerous Convicts, Danish, Denmark Copenhagen, Inmates, Jutland, Kroner, Mobile Phones, North Jutland, Prison Guard, Prison Scandal, Prison Service, Prostitutes, Trysts
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
The Greenlandic newspaper Atuagagdliutit - Grønlandsposten has gone live with its new website, AG.gl, which has been in development over recent months in co-operation with Nordic eMarketing. The website is set up using the DaCoda content management system, and is specially designed for Greenlandic conditions; for example the fact that all items on the site must appear in both Greenlandic and Danish.
Atuagagdliutit, which was established in 1861, is among the world’s oldest newspapers still in publication. Nordic eMarketing was enlisted to help create the new website in a time when online news distribution is becoming almost essential for traditional newspapers. Previously Nordic eMarketing has worked on similar projects for MBL.is, Icelands largest news portal and Viðskiptabladid, Icelands leading business news paper.
Greenland’s switch to home government, the country’s full-independence movement and climate change are just three reasons that reliable daily news distribution in Greenland has never been more popular or important.
For geographical reasons, printed newspapers are only distributed once or twice a week and must be sent to villages and settlements all along the Greenlandic coast. Greenland has a coast some 39,330 km long, which is nearly the same as the straight line distance around the earth’s equator!
Tags: 1861, Business News, Climate Change, Content Management System, Danish, Distance Around The Earth, Emarketing, Equator, Geographical Reasons, Gl, Greenland, Home Government, Independence Movement, Mbl, News Distribution, News Paper, Nordic, Straight Line, Traditional Newspapers
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Gambling in Denmark is about to embark on a new path now that the government has decided to terminate the 60-year gaming monopoly run by Danske Spil, a state-owned entity. This deregulation will open the door for international companies to try their luck at coaxing money from Danish punters.
The main factor behind the deregulation, according to the Copenhagen Post, is a current European Commission lawsuit contending the monopoly is violating free market rules within the EU. This means foreign gaming firms can now advertise in Denmark and their gambling offers will be legal to purchase.
Only the Lotto and scratch ticket games will continue to be operated exclusively by Danske Spil. Jumping into the Danish gaming market won’t be free, however. The government will extract a licensing fee from every company, ensuring a tidy chunk of cash goes into the state’s coffers.
In 2008, Danes spent around 11 billion kroner on gambling, with the state raking in 2.8 billion kroner in duty. The government spent about 1.6 billion kroner of the profits on youth organisations and charities.
Danske Spil is actually happy about the deregulation because it will greatly reduce the amount it has to pay back to the state, which is currently 30 percent of its take. It will also allow the firm to offer poker and casino gambling, which were previously outlawed under the old monopoly.
Tags: Casino Gambling, Charities, Chunk, Coffers, Copenhagen Post, Danish, Danske Spil, Deregulation, European Commission, Gaming Firms, Gaming Market, Kroner, Licensing Fee, Lotto, Monopoly, Monopoly Free, Punters, Scratch Ticket, Ticket Games, Youth Organisations
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Sunday, April 12th, 2009
Danish referees have been in the spotlight lately for their refusal to accept bribes in international handball events. Neither a one-off nor the work of a single nation desperate for victory, Danish refs claim that both Croatia and Romania have tried to bribe them to influence the outcome of handball matches.
Politiken reports that in June 2008 two Danish referees were offered 224,000 kroner each to help Romania win a World Championship handball qualifier against Montenegro. They reported the incident to both the Danish and European handball federations, both of which ignored their claims of bribery as unimportant.
In an even more surprising incident, two Danish referees claim they were offered prostitutes prior to officiating during the 2009 World Championships in Croatia. The Croatian Handball Association vehemently denies the claim, which has come on the heels of an investigation into match fixing in the final, which Croatia lost to France.
One of the referees in question told TV2 news: “All the officials were invited out to a very upscale restaurant one evening after a match. It was a closed arrangement which was organised by the host nation. And so we were rather surprised when a number of scantily-clad women came bustling into the room.”
Whether that constitutes indirect bribery remains unclear, but the Croatians find it interesting that the allegations were only brought to light after they filed a request to review the final match. No other referees at the private dinner have yet confirmed the Danish refs’ version of events.
Tags: Allegations, Bribery, Bribes, Croatia, Croatian, Danish, European Handball, Final Match, Handball Association, Host Nation, Kroner, Montenegro, Private Dinner, Prostitutes, Referees, Refs, Scantily Clad Women, Upscale Restaurant, World Championship Handball, World Championships
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
21-year-old singer/songwriter Dísa is to play two concerts in the coming weeks. Both happen to be on a Thursday and both are in Copenhagen. The first is at Islandsbrygge and will take place on...
Tags: Concerts, Copenhagen, Danish, Play Two, Singer Songwriter, Winter Warmers
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It appears that Danes are hitting the books again as most of the nation’s major universities have reported sharp increases in their applications for enrollment this year. Upper educational institutions throughout Zealand, Jutland, and Funen are even witnessing record-breaking figures.