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Covid and GeenStijl throw a spanner in the works
No survey, no freshly printed edition of Observant this week
News
Update: UM is preparing for a new Covid wave
At this moment: Code Dark Green: wash your hands, stay at home if you have any symptoms
Background
Held hostage by COVID-19 for years
UM leads research into Long Covid
News
“It is very important for PBL that students get together”
No more hybrid education after the summer
News
INKOM 2022: Opening at Tapijn barracks and watching a film outdoors with people from Maastricht
All big outside events in one location
News
Government: ‘Education will stay open as long as possible if new coronavirus wave hits’
“We saw that the mental health of young people was under pressure during the pandemic"
Background
Working on a Danish farm, skydiving and emigrating to Spain
Summer plans for UM students: what are they going to do now almost everything is allowed again?
News
MPs receive slap on the wrist from scientists
“This was not an isolated incident, but the latest egregious insult cast at scientists"
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Cyberattack UM
Background
Hacking attempts at UM captured in a work of art
An installation is by the artist Richard Vijgen at the Minderbroedersberg
Background
For sale: Netflix login code for 2.25 dollar
Maastricht researchers on the dark web
News
University Council issues statement condemning the cyberattack after all
"Since that plenary meeting, we have learned a lot as a council"
Statement
“The University Council condemns, without reservation, and in the strongest possible terms, the criminal cyber attack on the Observant”
Statement University Council
Opinion
When it really matters, the University Council remains quiet
Democracy is a hothouse plant, it will die out if we don’t fight for it
Letter
Cultural war at the UM
At least eighty per cent of the people can live with diversity, but allow themselves to be intimidated by ideological extremists
Opinion
What kind of university do we want to be?
Opinion Jan Smits: "Especially at university you need to hear opinions you disagree with"
Opinion
Has the University Council forgotten that democracy requires a free press?
"The silence has been deafening lately after miscreants had blocked access to Observant’s online publications by launching a DDoS attack"
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Einstein telescope
News
Are neighbouring countries jeopardising the Einstein Telescope?
Where the Netherlands is making pace, German and Belgium commitments are lagging behind
News
More than 900 million euros for Einstein Telescope
42 million for the preparations and 870 million for when the installation is actually built in Limburg
New
Too small and too vague
Municipal building inspector forbids larger image
News
"The clean room was the greatest challenge”
Opening ETpathfinder
UM and IBM researching quantum computing
The Eifel is 'moving': consequences for the Einstein Telescope?
“I feel like Alice in Wonderland”
Professor Stefan Hild on the Einstein Telescope, Sardinia and the cosmos
UM starts a physics group with a view to the Einstein Telescope
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Human Resource Policy
News
Universities are looking for a solution for the research time missed out on by postdocs
Law concerning flex workers sometimes creates issues
Background
Lost orders and a mountain of reminder e-mails
Four months after going live: how are things going with SAP Cloud?
Background
President Letschert: “PhD candidates still don’t dare to speak out; that is unacceptable”
Ask Me Anything about social safety
News
SAP Cloud going live is running smoothly
Help desk gets about 200 questions a day
News
500 euro for anyone who recruits a new colleague
Shortage on the labour market
News
“This postponement provides breathing space for everyone”
New IT system for HR, Finance and Sales to be introduced in June
News
“A system transition while insufficiently prepared? I wouldn’t do that to the organisation”
Introduction of new IT system for HR, Finance and Sales postponed
“You have to have the guts to stand on the edge of life and shiver"
HR adviser Pierre Schröder on the turbulent year of 2020
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Stress at UM
Column
Getting virtual mud under my fingernails
"It’s enough to make you want to hide under the duvet until spring shows up"
Background
“Some students just enjoy having no social life”
Hikikomori: a Japanese phenomenon spreading to Dutch youth
Background
“You conform, for fear of being excluded from the group”
Interview with social psychologist Karlijn Massar about hazing
Background
“You don’t need to prove yourself time and again”
Growing Up in Science with rector Pamela Habibović
News
The higher up the ladder, the more overtime
About 90 percent of the professors work more hours than scheduled
Reportage
“Relax a little, too much stress is counterproductive”
Education Minister Dijkgraaf talks with Maastricht students
News
Students suffer more from stress, says Statistics Netherlands
The further they get in their study programme, the more they worry about their future
Background
Less fragmentation of work, more faith in staff
Maastricht expert on dealing with work pressure
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Student housing
News
Pilot project for living-in with hosts: “People in Maastricht still have to get used to it”
Hundreds of interested students, twenty matches
News
Shortage on the Maastricht rooms market back to the level of before the Covid crisis
Friction, but "no new housing crisis", according to UM
News
Maastricht room shortages appear less severe than last year
‘Container homes’ Randwyck and locations outside Maastricht have to prevent a repeat of the housing crisis
Background
“We will soon have a small village here”
Six hundred new student homes in Randwyck
News
Dutch Student Union ranks Wageningen top for student rooms
Maastricht drops in the ranking
News
Clearer communication towards new students about the housing market
“Make sure you have a room before you move to Maastricht”
News
Excessive rents for prefab accommodation in Randwyck
According to the Rents Team, its decision could apply to all apartments on the complex
News
Worries about student housing next year
For the time being, the UM is focussing on Sittard and Heerlen
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Study tips
Master's student creates music from study material
Shilly-shallying, sleeping in and shouting
Freshmen special 2019
Relax, take it easy
No longer a pupil but a student
The difference between secondary school and university: more discipline and responsibility needed
Things no one told me before writing my thesis
Ten tips for writing a thesis
It’s been a hard day’s night
International students on workload at Maastricht University
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