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How do you find a suitable topic for research? What is an efficient way to read an academic article? And how can you keep secondary-school pupils motivated during this process? With these and other questions, a teacher at secondary school Porta Mosana College in Maastricht approached University College Maastricht (UCM). Third-year students Alanna S...

MAASTRICHT. Work pressure has been a theme at Maastricht University for years. But since the start of COVID-19, it has increased exponentially across the University, both for academic and for support staff. Young lecturers at University College Maastricht seem to be having an extra hard time. There are times when they have up to four tuto...

To prepare students to be good citizens in a democratic society is the central concern of education for Teun Dekker, recently made first professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences in Europe. Dekker intended his inaugural lecture on Thursday, the 31st of January, to be a “celebration of Liberal Arts education” and hence introduced his idea o...

MAASTRICHT. One thing is clear: The Faculty of Humanities and Sciences (FHS) is going to be split up. The science side will form a new Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE), the sections that cannot be included, will go their own way.

MAASTRICHT. Student life involves a lot of changes: a university study, living by yourself, and new friends. During the Well-being Week by University College Maastricht (UCM), the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (FPN) and the Student Service Centre (SSC), students will get tips to become healthier and more resilient.

MAASTRICHT. Did you know that Albert Heijn, the man behind the well-known supermarket chain, lived in a castle in Great Britain at the end of his life? This is one of the many topics that come up during the weekly Tea with the Deans, from 1 to 1.30 pm on Monday in the common room at University College Maastricht (UCM).

“Stress seems to be a big thing at UCM that people talk about. It occurred to me after a while that maybe it’s not just me who has a hard time getting things done and we should do something about this,” says Amelie Gaetjen, a second year sociology student at UCM. She’s on the academic council and is one of the students behin...

“I actually wanted to send myself one, but I didn’t in the end.” Two students from University College Maastricht are snooping through the handwritten notes on one of the common room’s walls. The cards are attached to heart-shaped cookies – how appropriate on Monday, 15 February, the day after Valentine’s Day. It...

University College Maastricht is celebrating its tenth anniversary. Following in Utrecht’s footsteps, Maastricht University started its own Liberal Arts programme in 2002, a broad bachelor's programme with a lot of freedom for students to determine their own course, with academic advisors who assist – and steer – students in t...

Maastricht University’s General and Technical Services will take measures developed by the Green Office to increase energy efficiency at UCM. Conventional lights will be replaced with energy efficient LEDs in the corridors and parts of the common room, and movement detectors and ambient light detectors will be installed in corridors, the com...