A quarter of the world’s top 200 universities have a female president, Times Higher Education reports. How about in the Netherlands?
Threats and intimidation faced by diversity officers at higher education institutions are ‘completely unacceptable’, says Minister Dijkgraaf. He has announced a plan.
A year after Putin plunged Ukraine into all-out war, academic freedom in Russia is in a sorry state. “You can stay and try to help others, or you can flee.”
No additional support for staff with long covid The government does not feel called upon to provide extra support to teaching staff at risk of becoming unfit for work due to long-term covid complaints. Employers and unions will have to make a joint arrangement for this. In January, 1,700 education employees with…
Maths and physics final exams too easy Maths and physics final exams in pre-university education (vwo) have become significantly easier over the past 30 years, a new study says. The universities consider it a serious signal. Although the average grade for the central final exams in mathematics and physics rose by 0.4…
Within Europe, higher education institutions want to offer education more frequently in partnership. To strengthen their global position, but they see practical benefits too.
Re-entry UK to European research programme upcoming Now that the European Commission and the UK have reached a deal on border controls between the EU and Northern Ireland, the way seems clear for the UK’s final re-entry into Horizon Europe research programme. Although the UK Parliament has yet to agree to it,…
Lecturer allowed to copy at most 40 pages Lecturers occasionally copy and scan something for their students. They should start doing that a little less, according to a new agreement between universities and the foundation that manages copyright in education. University lecturers’ digital reading lists often contain links to open access articles…
‘Include Switzerland and UK in European research’ The European Union cannot afford to exclude Switzerland and the UK from its research programme, says a position paper by Neth-ER, the Dutch education and research outpost in Brussels. This position paper is a brochure with views on European research. It is the vision that Neth-ER…
Former student demands compensation for data breach A former student of the Arnhem and Nijmegen University of Applied Sciences (HAN) is going to court because his private data became public in a data leak. He is demanding compensation and an admission of guilt from the institution. While still a student in 2021,…
