Utrecht University of Applied Sciences has postponed a series of lectures on the Holocaust. This news from daily newspaper De Telegraaf led to a storm of messages and reactions this weekend. The Utrecht teacher training college organised the lectures together with CIDI (Centre for Information and Documentation Israel). They were supposed to take place in
The Dutch news website ScienceGuide is in serious financial trouble. The website will shut down on 17 February unless 2.500 readers are willing to take out a subscription at 85 euros per year. This is what the 26-year-old platform for news and opinion on higher education and research writes on its own website. There would
Former medical student Fouad L., who killed three people in Rotterdam, will be admitted to the Pieter Baan Centre next month for psychological testing. This emerged on Monday during the first hearing of his trial.
Future cabinets should make efforts to reduce the migration balance, says a new demography report. But there is no need to put a brake on the number of student migrants, according to the committee.
The current board of the National Students' Union (LSVb) would not enter into talks with a PVV Education Minister, if there were to be one. That is what president Elisa Weehuizen says. According to Weehuizen, the LSVb, which stems from local student unions and has an activist streak, should 'remain consistently opposed to racism and
In an employment dispute with the University of Groningen, social safety expert Susanne Täuber has again lost out. She was allowed to be dismissed, the Court of Appeal ruled. Täuber criticised the diversity policy at her own university in an article and eventually lost her job. Her dismissal led to protests, petitions and a fundraising
PVV scout out over fraud suspicion PVV senator Gom van Strien has resigned from his job as a scout for a new Dutch cabinet. He has been charged with fraud at his former employer, a subsidiary of Utrecht University. Until mid-2009, Van Strien was director of Utrecht Holdings, the knowledge transfer office…
Wat leeft er onder Delftse jongeren? In de documentaire ‘De 15 van Delft’ maak je kennis met vijftien jongeren uit de stad, onder wie drie TU-studenten.
Activists occupy Leiden University building On the morning after the elections, climate activists occupied two classrooms at Leiden University. Some 50 students from the action group End Fossil Leiden Delft put up banners and demanded that the university cut ties with the fossil industry, reports university magazine Mare (in Dutch). Rector Hester Bijl…
Foreign graduates driven away from The Netherlands International students leave the Netherlands faster after graduation than other countries, a recent survey shows. This is partly because they are given less time to look for a job here. Of the students who came here from outside Europe in 2010, only 12 per…
