Universities across the United States are bracing themselves as Donald Trump begins his second term as president. Some universities are already saying they have no intention of cooperating with the mass deportations he has announced.
When distributing research funding, reviewers and collaborators should not use AI programmes such as ChatGPT and Perplexity. This is stated in a new guideline from research financer NWO. Last year, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) already drew a line in the sand: juries, referees and committee members were not allowed to use generative
The government is working on a bill to improve cybersecurity in the Netherlands. It may also apply to higher education institutions. This would make education administrators co-responsible for the resilience of their institutions.
Does degree programme X really need to be offered in English? Paul Rullmann, outgoing chair of the committee in charge of deciding this question, understands the rationale for introducing a language assessment. “But not”, he says, “in the context of a set of spending cuts.”
The unions have finally received a response to their ultimatum to Education Minister Eppo Bruins. He is willing to meet with them. A word of warning, though: fewer budget cuts are not on the table. The unions' ultimatum expired last Saturday. They demanded that all cuts to higher education and research be scrapped, otherwise strikes
Teaching at TU Eindhoven is still at a standstill. There are no indications that hackers stole data, reports the technical university, but the investigation is still ongoing.
TU Eindhoven took its network offline on Sunday due to a cyber attack. There is no Wi-Fi on the campus of the technical university for the time being, and internal systems are down as well. This Monday, all teaching at TU Eindhoven has been cancelled. The buildings remain accessible, but there is no network access.
The Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB) sees that students are receiving relatively less internship payments. Technical students are the luckiest, as they receive the highest amount on average.
Utrecht University is again the best ‘broad’ institution in this year's Keuzegids, while the Open University and Wageningen top the list of ‘other’ universities. © HOP. Source: Keuzegids Universiteiten 2025 and previous editions. Utrecht University continues to do very well, says the Keuzegids Universities 2025, published on Thursday. Radboud University has lost a point, but
