Students do not benefit from energy cost compensation Residents of non-self-contained rooms in large complexes, usually students and elderly people, benefit little from the government measures to cushion rising energy prices. The government admits this in response to parliamentary questions from BoerBurgerBeweging. For example, there will be an extra discount of 265…
Volkskrantjournalist en oud-Delta-collega Maarten Keulemans is vrijdag door journalistenvereniging Villamedia uitgeroepen tot Journalist van het Jaar 2021 voor zijn onvermoeibare verslaggeving van de corona-epidemie voor de Volkskrant. Volkskrantlezers kennen hem onder meer van zijn serie ‘Keulemans in quarantaine’, waarin hij vragen van lezers beantwoordt. Keulemans onderstreept wat de jury betreft het hoge niveau van de…
University of Groningen lecturer spread conspiracy theories Associate Professor Tjeerd Andringa is no longer permitted to teach a course on critical thinking at the University of Groningen. His performance is being reviewed because he preached conspiracy theories in his classes. Students have told university news medium UKrant that Andringa tried to convert…
Mare: psychologist committed fraud 15 times Psychologist Lorenza Colzato, former researcher at Leiden University, violated scientific integrity in at least 15 publications. She, for example, omitted research results that did not meet with her approval. Mare, the university magazine, covered (in Dutch) the story yesterday. After a previous incriminating investigation in 2019,…
Batavierenrace Team looking for runners The TU Delft Batavierenrace Team is looking for fast student runners to participate in the Batavierenrace on April 29th and 30th. After a third place in the online race in 2021, the TU Delft team hopes to do well again in this year’s 175-kilometre relay race from…
VU Human Rights Centre suspends activities The Cross Cultural Human Rights Centre at the Free University Amsterdam (VU) has suspended its activities. Research must first show whether the independence of the Centre is at stake given funding from China. Last week, NOS reported (in Dutch) that the Human Rights Centre is sponsored…
Universiteiten en hogescholen hebben er begrip voor dat de eindexamenregels opnieuw worden aangepast. Kandidaten mogen één onvoldoende wegstrepen, zolang het maar geen kernvak als wiskunde, Nederlands of Engels is. Minister Wiersma voor primair en voortgezet onderwijs maakte de versoepeling gisteren bekend. Hij vond het een lastige afweging, omdat deze zogeheten ‘duimregeling’ de motivatie…
Universities lower standard for BSA Because of the coronavirus measures universities are relaxing the binding recommendation on continuation of studies. That means that first-year students now need to get fewer credits in order to be allowed to proceed with the second year. The higher professional education sector has not yet taken a joint…
Heidelberg tragedy: one victim dead The shooting at Heidelberg University yesterday 24 January 2022 left two dead and three injured. One of the dead is the perpetrator himself. The police are unsure about his motive. In the lecture hall, where about thirty students were present, the 18-year-old biology student started shooting around…
Parliament positive on flex-studies Determine your own study pace and pay per credit? Flex-studies are coming closer and closer in higher education, now that the House of Representatives still mostly sees advantages. But the Socialist Party (SP) and the Green Left (GroenLinks) are still critical. Just before the Christmas holidays, the House…
