Terug naar Nederlandse versie 113 Suicide Prevention launches campaign 113 Suicide Prevention is launching the national public campaign ‘1K Z1E J3’ (I see you) on Friday 10 September, World Suicide Prevention Day. With the new campaign, 113 wants to stimulate the environment of people with thoughts of suicide to start the difficult,…
Terug naar Nederlandse versie Occupation of Groningen Academy Building over The occupation of the Academy Building of the University of Groningen ended Thursday night. The occupiers wanted to enforce more living space for students and have made new agreements about this. The protest by action group Shelter Our Students…
De Amsterdamse studentenvereniging A.S.C./A.V.S.V. schaft dispuutsontgroeningen af en vraagt mishandelde leden om aangifte te doen bij de politie. ‘Hard ingrijpen’ is nodig nadat zes disputen zich schuldig maakten aan ‘stompen, trappen en klappen in het gezicht’ tijdens de ontgroening, schrijft het bestuur in een openbare brief. De betrokken dispuutsleden zijn geschorst. Het bestuur…
NWO stricter on open access More and more often, the results of scientific research are directly available to everyone. Research financer NWO has already achieved 85 percent of all publications in which it is involved, with a total value of one billion euros in 2020. In order to raise this percentage even…
Honderdduizenden privégegevens van studenten, medewerkers en andere contacten van de Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen (HAN) zouden op straat liggen, nadat de hogeschool weigerde een hacker losgeld te betalen. De hack is op 1 september ontdekt, meldt de hogeschool. De hacker heeft de gegevens inmiddels online gezet, schrijft RTL Nieuws. Het gaat onder…
More students from outside Europe A record number of students from outside Europe want to come to the Netherlands to study this year, the Dutch Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) reports. The coronavirus crisis led to a sharp drop in the numbers of such students last year. Students from outside the EU…
Schrijver Jan Terlouw is binnenkort te gast in College Tour bij KRO-NCRV. De uitzending van het interviewprogramma wordt opgenomen in Museum Prinsenhof in Delft. TU-studenten zijn uitgenodigd de opnames bij te wonen. Terlouw – schrijver, natuurkundige en politicus – schreef tientallen bestellers, diende als minister en vicepremier in twee kabinetten-Van Agt en zet zich…
More students living in student housing Last year, for the first time since 2016, more university students went to live in student rooms. In 2020, almost 26 thousand students entered the student housing market, whereas in the three preceding years the number was around 22 thousand. This is shown in research (in…
Observing bridges from space Many will still have the dramatic images of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa that collapsed in 2018 clearly in their minds. There are countless other bridges in Europe that are in poor condition. Many are already more than fifty years old and need extra close monitoring. This can be done by…
Violence during hazing at Amsterdam student association During their hazing, several freshmen of the Amsterdam student association A.S.C.-A.V.S.V. were humiliated, kicked and beaten up last week. At at least eight fraternities ‘unacceptable behaviour’ took place. That is what the board of the Association of Reunionists of the student association writes to the other former…
