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Opinion26 January 2023
‘Warning international students is not enough’
‘Don’t come if you don’t have accommodation by the first of August’, warned VU Amsterdam. Student Leo Yilmazer – who quit their studies and moved back to Türkiye because they couldn’t find a room – thinks the university should be more transparent about the housing crisis.
read moreSociety23 January 2023
Petition: universities must end ties with fossil fuel sector
In a week of climate protests, activists from Fossielvrij NL posted an online petition last Wednesday.
read moreDebate19 January 2023
Universities create their own bubble on Mastodon
Users of social media are increasingly regarding Mastodon as an alternative to Twitter. And from March, the higher education institutions will experiment with it. They would like to become less dependent on Twitter.
read moreSociety19 January 2023
UvA has police clear occupied building within a day
The occupation of the University of Amsterdam is over. The ME (Police Support Unit) cleared the building yesterday evening and arrested 30 people. Earlier in the day, the Executive Board had asked the demonstrators to leave voluntarily.
read moreScience17 January 2023
Knowledge Security Helpdesk receives almost 150 queries
Which scientists can we work with and how careful should we be? Over the the course of almost 12 months, the Knowledge Security Helpdesk received 148 questions.
read moreStudents17 January 2023
Money soon to be made available for ‘block heating’
Tenants in student complexes are to get lower energy bills thanks to government assistance. The only question is how soon this money will get to those students.
read moreOther universities13 January 2023
Unions demand 14.3 percent rise in pay
On Tuesday afternoon, the unions presented their bargaining position ahead of talks to set out a new collective labour agreement for Dutch universities.
read moreCampus06 January 2023
'I have lost some friends in this war'
Ukrainian student Lev Medin was obsessed with the war in his home country last year, but he has learned to focus on other things now too. “I have learned to control it.”
read moreScience05 January 2023
‘Despite teething problems, recognise and reward is the wave of the future’
Universities worldwide are looking for new ways to assess the quality of science.
read moreCampus16 December 2022
Festival of lights aims to celebrate differences, not hide them
Looking down to the campus square from one of the higher floors, one might have noticed a small sea of light in front of the 3D debate center last Thursday evening.
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