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Delta is hiring a student photographer     Do you have experience as a photographer, do you own a good camera and do you want to improve your skills in journalistic photography? Then come be a photographer for Delta, the independent news website of the TU Delft!     This photo was taken by student…

Utrecht revokes professor’s doctoral degree     A 2008 medical dissertation, consisting largely of previously published scientific articles, has fallen into dispute. Two articles have been withdrawn and two others are subject to an ‘expression of concern’, writes the Utrecht university newspaper DUB (in Dutch). The author in question allegedly manipulated and fabricated data. As a…

Mandatory behavioural training for students     In the fight against transgressive behaviour, Maastricht University wants to require all new bachelor students to undergo training starting next academic year. Executive Board president Rianne Letschert announced this intention this week during the Maastricht University Council meeting, reports (in Dutch) university magazine Observant. It is not yet clear…

DUO: this is how ‘interest rate trick’ works     The Education Executive Agency (DUO) is getting a lot of questions about the trick that allows students to fix part of their student loans at the new interest rate of 0.46 per cent. DUO has posted the explanation on its website. A number of clever students,…

Third Leiden student assaulted in two weeks’ time     An external date of a member of the Leiden student rowing association Njord was seriously assaulted during a gala in a Limburg castle on Wednesday 14 December. According to apps owned by university magazine Mare, the victim was lying on the ground and the perpetrator ‘kept…