The Dutch government is encouraging universities and colleges to attract international students, because it’s profitable for Dutch business.

After reading Lara and Sam’s story, would you also like to go on a Blind Date? Or maybe you’re just hungry and bored, and would like Delta to pay for dinner and a movie? If so, apply for a Blind Date today! The expert matchmakers of this, your favorite Delta page, will fix you up with a suitable partner and send you out for an exciting night on the town.

With fl. 100 guilders of our money, Page 4’s first Blind Daters hit the town for dinner, a movie and drinks. We interviewed them separately to discover if it was a night of passion, or of bored clock-watching; the time of their lives, or a nightmare in pizzeria.

ChurchInternational students are invited to attend the church-service in English in the Raamstraat church on 21 January at 11.3

Movies :Filmhuis Lumen :Dancer in the Dark, sunday 14:30, Bjork, the Icelandic pixie, in Lars von Trier’s latest.

Computer recognises crooked road signCrooked and damaged road signs can be recognised quickly, using an improved version of an old mathematical algorithm, the Laplace kernel classifier.

Sensors are on the rise: computer chips that measure air pressure, liquid flow velocities and a host of other quantities. One problem: how to protect these super-sensitive flakes of silicon against the rough environment they’re supposed to measure.

André Guidi, an Italian aerospace engineering exchange-student, lost all his lecture notes, photos and souvenirs during the fire at Gimmie Shelter, the brightly coloured student house near the library.

Dr. Fadhl Ali Al-Nozaily recently earned his PhD by developing a water-purifying system that uses duckweed, which is the green scum covering many of Holland’s brooks and ponds.

MoviesFilmhuis Lumen:Dancer in the Dark, thurs. to wed. 22:00, Bjork, the Icelandic pixie, in Lars von Trier’s latest.