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LONGREAD – More and more international students are finding their way into the various participation bodies of VU Amsterdam. German history student Pia Potthoff is one of them, as the newly appointed vice president of the Faculty of Humanities’ Student…
The science faculty is taking extra coronavirus measures: mouth masks, one-way traffic, supervisors and a covenant for trainees. “If we have to close again, the damage is incalculable,” says science counselor Guus Schreiber.
The executive board of the VU should do more for international members of the student councils, the central participation council thinks, like hire professional interpretators, translate documents and offer English-language training modules.
Students and university staff are not yet required to wear face masks on campus, the website of the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) states. But this decision is not set in stone.
For years, the proportion of PhD students with contracts that allocate too little time for their research has been estimated at 10 to 15 percent. However, that figure is likely to be higher, according to a new survey by the…
Higher education and research needs more female researchers and more researchers with a migration background. A new action plan also emphasises that something needs to be done to combat bullying and abuses of power.
Across the country, academics will be cycling between various student towns as a form of protest at the start of the new academic year. Lecturer and researcher of Economics, Sabine Go, plans to take part. What are the reasons for…
LONGREAD – As chairperson of the student council, Kata Rakić aims to work towards clearer communication for students, particularly for first-year students struggling to build a social network due to the coronavirus crisis.
The university student council has four members this year who have been council members before. In corona time, last year’s board did not find enough new successors.
The next VU Amsterdam new-build project has begun. The first sheet piling for the construction of the new lab building broke ground this week. Even well before construction began, it became known that the building was going to be a…
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