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Student Life & Society 21 November 2025

Slight improvement in student wellbeing

Students are doing better than four years ago. Even so, four out of five still experience moments of anxiety or depression, and their consumption of alcohol and drugs has not decreased.
Campus & Culture 20 October 2025

Culture shocks and small comforts

Missing spicy peppers, paying for toilets, sharing beds – Amsterdam can take some getting used to. Six newly arrived international students share how they’re settling in. 
Campus & Culture 7 October 2025

SRVU no longer allowed to manage Studentendok

Due to a number of violent incidents during the student council elections and to meetings of VU for Palestine, members of the participation council say, SRVU is no longer allowed to manage the workspace and meeting area for student organizations.
Student Life & Society 10 September 2025

Narrow path for undocumented students: first knowledge migrant, then dutch citizen

Few young people without residence papers study at Dutch universities and universities of applied sciences. Still, at least three of them have managed to obtain Dutch citizenship – thanks in part to their studies.
Student Life & Society 8 September 2025

I won’t find a room anyway, students think

Fewer and fewer students are moving out of home. They continue to live with their parents and have given up hope of getting a room, the National Student Housing Monitor shows.
Student Life & Society 22 August 2025

How to be kinda Dutch, maybe

As the Netherlands clamps down on internationalisation, internationals face more pressure to ‘integrate’ into Dutch society. Use this guide to become more of a local and less of a tourist in just one day.
Student Life & Society 19 August 2025

‘Your roommate can’t read your mind’

You thought your roommate would be a fellow adult – until the mouldy dishes and midnight gaming starts. What is the key to peacefully sharing your living space?
Campus & Culture 23 June 2025

Students demand unpaid wages from job agency ViaOns

Sixteen VU and UvA students say they’ve not been paid for their work by the job agency that linked them to hospitality jobs. ‘You have to beg and chase them every day while they toy with you.’
Science & Education 2 June 2025

More students feel safe enough to be themselves

According to the National Student Survey, more and more students are positive about the atmosphere within their programme. They are also more likely to feel safe enough to be themselves at their educational institution.
Student Life & Society 14 November 2024

Minister should take next step against DUO discrimination

Education minister Eppo Bruins has promised to compensate students who fell victim to education agency DUO’s overzealous anti-fraud campaign. This is good news, but what about the ‘reverse burden of proof’?