The Dutch Parliament wants students in times of corona to be able to take another year and study tuition free. Should this apply to all students or only to those with a delay?
Monday 1 February, 159 students were taken into custody in Istanbul in protests against the new rector of Bogazici University. Protests have now spread to the Netherlands.
The lockdown will be extended until 2 March. For the time being, the majority of teaching will remain online. When will universities reopen? Eight questions and answers.
Give students an extra year of study as a gift Studying in times of Covid is not what it should be: so can’t the Dutch Government give young people an extra year of study as a gift? That is what the chairmen of the boards of the Christian University of Applied Sciences Ede and…
Nog geen idee op wie je in maart gaat stemmen? Het ISO heeft een kieswijzer gemaakt die laat zien hoe politieke partijen denken over de ‘hordeloop’ van het studentleven.
Higher education will remain in lockdown Primary schools will reopen next week, but universities will have to wait a little longer. The situation remains extremely worrying, write the experts of the Outbreak Management Team (OMT) in its advice to the Dutch government. The OMT is divided, according to a letter on the subject from…
Gratis grasduinen door allerlei Nederlandse wetenschappelijke tijdschriften uit de sociale- en geesteswetenschappen? Vanaf 29 januari kan het, dankzij het nieuwe open access platform OpenJournals. Op dit nieuwe platform kunnen in Nederland uitgegeven tijdschriften hun artikelen publiceren zonder dat deze achter een paywall verdwijnen. Bezoekers kunnen door zeven tijdschriften bladeren. De collectie wordt in drie jaar…
Erasmus grants for Scotland and Wales after all? At the end of December it was announced that the United Kingdom will discontinue the Erasmus+ programme. Prime Minister Boris Johnson finds participation too expensive and wants to launch a new British exchange programme. But according to the German MEP Terry Reintke and her colleagues, Scotland…
Students and starters already had it hard, and the corona crisis does not make things any better. The government has to do something about it now, youth organisations say.
LSVb critical of proposed government exit strategy How long will it be before students and staff can go back to campus? The government is working on a roadmap for easing the lockdown. Don’t put higher education in the back row, warns the National Students’ Union LSVb. The LSVb makes this call in response to…
