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Students 8 July 2021

‘I had to take 8 paracetamols per day’

Students are generally less vulnerable to the coronavirus, but what happens to the students who do experience severe symptoms? An international student from India opens up about his struggles with the virus and the Dutch healthcare system. Tavneet Singh is…
Student Life & Society 6 July 2021

Saurabh Jain prevents falling among elderly

LONGREAD – There are around 13 fatal falls every day in the Netherlands alone and the annual medical costs related to fall are more than 800 million euros. Saurabh Jain (29, Master’s student Artificial Intelligence) witnessed the psychological effect of…
Students 24 June 2021

Students give higher education a lower grade

How satisfied are students with their educational experience? Finally, the question could be asked again, and given the coronavirus crisis, the outcome was to be expected: they are less satisfied than previously.
Job market 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.
Other universities 11 June 2021

Working from home: blessing for one, curse for the other

Some professors and lecturers in higher education “can’t stand” working from home, while others are quite happy to do so. Opinions are sharply divided, a survey conducted by Newcom Research & Consultancy has revealed.
Society 11 June 2021

One in every ten female students has been raped during her studies

Around one in ten female students have been penetrated without consent at some point during their time at university, Amnesty International reports. One percent of male students report non-consensual penetration.
Politics 28 May 2021

Conflict between Israel and Palestine causes political unrest in higher education

The recent conflict between Israel and Palestine has led to protests, intimidation and a call to boycott Israeli knowledge institutions. But Dutch universities and universities of applied sciences do not want to take sides. Shortly after violence broke out again…
Exchange 26 May 2021

‘We are denied making a decision for our own future’

Over a thousand VU students who want to go on exchange have joined forces to make exchanges to so-called orange countries possible. Lina Nasser, second-year bachelor student in Communication & Information Studies, has started a petition.
Politics 20 May 2021

Dutch academics boycott Israeli universities

Nearly 500 researchers and lecturers are boycotting Israeli academic institutions because of their ties to Israel’s military. They want the Netherlands to express support for the Palestinians by cutting all economic, political and military ties with Israel for the time…
International 17 May 2021

Petition for more student exchanges takes off

Students from VU Amsterdam have started a petition to open up the possibilities to go on an exchange to countries with an orange color code. According to the initiators, there is no good reason to exclude all countries with an…
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