Emma Sprangers, Author at Ad Valvas

21 November 2024

From powerpoints to playful education

Educational trainer Ermelinda Jaku believes creating good education is a joint effort. ‘We need to co-create a space for everyone to challenge their own assumptions.’

14 November 2024

‘If they don’t want me here, I’ll just leave’

The new Dutch cabinet doesn’t beat around the bush when it comes to their intent on limiting internationalisation. How do international students experience these plans?

19 September 2024

‘Decolonisation can be unsettling’

For some researchers, their role in society is almost as important as their work. Meet three of VU’s activist academics. Tamara Soukotta taught courses on decolonisation at VU, until she was ‘relieved of her duties’.

5 July 2024

How SRVU lost board members and votes this year

It lost half its votes in the university student council elections, waved goodbye to most of its board members and processed a lot of criticism from its members. While SRVU was consistently the largest party, it is now facing hard…

8 March 2024

Name five female scientists, go!

In honor of International Women’s Day, Ad Valvas’ student reporter and PPE student Katharina Graf shines a light on female researchers that were robbed of their scientific recognition.

20 February 2024

Right-wing parties end extra 164 euro grant payment

Students living away from home will receive a lower basic grant from September, the House of Representatives decided yesterday. Their monthly payment will drop to 302 euros per month. That is 164 euros less than they receive at present.

31 January 2024

The lecture hall as podium

Lecturers who take the theatre skills course can’t just sit back and watch. ‘I’m scared already.’

14 December 2023

Turning double standards into a double-edged sword through decolonization

VU’s priorities of diversity and inclusion have little foundation without decolonization, argues Danny Soekarnsingh. That’s why the former student advocated for his own role as a diversity officer in decolonization three years ago.

29 March 2023

A whole life in two rooms and a suitcase

The Ukrainian refugees in the living units near Uilenstede might be here for tragic reasons outside of their control, they’re also just living life. ‘I like watching the planes from my bed.’

2 February 2023

‘I never thanked my female teachers for their role in my life’

Student Tetyana Pryshchepova condemns the gender-normative stereotypes society has imposed on children. As co-founder of Women in Stem@VU (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math), she hopes to get more women into the exact sciences.

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