Transgressive behaviour in the academic world is sadly nothing new, and all kinds of stories are told about it. The strangest story concerns the queen of France. In the 14th century, she is said to ...

Fewer international students, the slow-progress penalty… Even if the plans turn out not to be feasible, the cabinet is going to cut the higher education and research budget by hundreds of millions of ...

Now the Schoof cabinet has submitted its budget for 2025, it’s becoming increasingly clear what the cutbacks will entail. The response by students, education institutions, researchers and employers is ...

While the average Dutch person will have 0.7 per cent more to spend next year, students living away from home will lose 6.6 per cent: 113 euros per month. According to National Institute for Family ...

Students moved out en masse in August and September. Around campus and in Kralingen, old mattresses, slatted bed bases and piles of boxes are littering the streets. Do you also just throw your bulky ...

Wim van Tiggele (right) with Humphrey Martina. On the tablet, they can see reports of waste in the neighbourhood. Image credit: Hilde Speet The ‘bright minds’ at the university can contribute to a ...

The Executive Board has rejected a proposal from the University Council to conduct meetings in both Dutch and English. The council proposed that members should be allowed to choose whether to speak in ...

Hoek van Holland may not be Brazil, but columnist Giselle still enjoys a day at the beach at the end of summer. My best friend buries the corners of her towel in the sand, because that’s how they do ...

The starter grants, each worth 300,000 euros, were intended for newly employed university lecturers, who could use them to finance research at their own discretion. The universities responded to their ...

The cabinet’s ‘coalition programme’ has been published. The minister and state secretary of Education, Culture and Science have to make drastic cuts, they acknowledge in their own press release. “That ...

EM TV EM TV Newsflash: tough budget cuts and student housing shortage persists Every Monday, an overview of the most important news about Erasmus University and what’s happening this week. This week: ...

They’re ready for an in-depth dialogue, the teachers, students and administrators of Utrecht University. What they get is a ‘statement’. The spokesperson of the Utrecht pro-Palestinian student ...