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Student Life & Society 21 April 2023

Unions head to VU to protest against high workload

The universities are still not doing enough to combat the high workload, say the trade unions. And things are not moving swiftly with regard to permanent contracts either. They are going to protest next Tuesday. On 25 April, the unions,…
Student Life & Society 15 June 2021

Minister’s solution for dubious PhD contracts: more talks

What should be done about the peculiar employment contracts PhD students are sometimes presented with, the kind the collective labour agreement does not allow? According to outgoing Minister Ingrid Van Engelshoven everyone has to sit down together at the table.
Student Life & Society 20 August 2020

Young graduates hit hard by contracting economy

With the economy in a slump caused by the coronavirus crisis, unemployment among young graduates and students has increased. “These are not fun times for young people looking for work,” says the chief economist of Statistics Netherlands.