Covid and GeenStijl throw a spanner in the works

No survey, no freshly printed edition of Observant this week

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

Held hostage by COVID-19 for years

UM leads research into Long Covid

“It is very important for PBL that students get together”

No more hybrid education after the summer

INKOM 2022: Opening at Tapijn barracks and watching a film outdoors with people from Maastricht

All big outside events in one location

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"

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?

MPs receive slap on the wrist from scientists

“This was not an isolated incident, but the latest egregious insult cast at scientists"

Hacking attempts at UM captured in a work of art

An installation is by the artist Richard Vijgen at the Minderbroedersberg

For sale: Netflix login code for 2.25 dollar

Maastricht researchers on the dark web

University Council issues statement condemning the cyberattack after all

"Since that plenary meeting, we have learned a lot as a council"

“The University Council condemns, without reservation, and in the strongest possible terms, the criminal cyber attack on the Observant”

Statement University Council

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

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

What kind of university do we want to be?

Opinion Jan Smits: "Especially at university you need to hear opinions you disagree with"

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"

Ground research for Einstein Telescope enters into new phase: “This is a very complex puzzle”

How suitable is the Limburg soil for the construction of a gigantic detector?

Are neighbouring countries jeopardising the Einstein Telescope?

Where the Netherlands is making pace, German and Belgium commitments are lagging behind

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

Too small and too vague

Municipal building inspector forbids larger image

"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

From November, employees will report in sick with just ‘one press of a button’

Part two of the Integrated Operational Management

Universities are looking for a solution for the research time missed out on by postdocs

Law concerning flex workers sometimes creates issues

Lost orders and a mountain of reminder e-mails

Four months after going live: how are things going with SAP Cloud?

President Letschert: “PhD candidates still don’t dare to speak out; that is unacceptable”

Ask Me Anything about social safety

SAP Cloud going live is running smoothly

Help desk gets about 200 questions a day

500 euro for anyone who recruits a new colleague

Shortage on the labour market

“This postponement provides breathing space for everyone”

New IT system for HR, Finance and Sales to be introduced in June

“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

“Without mistakes, without uncertainty, there is no growth”

President Rianne Letschert on the balance between performance and relaxation

Trimbos: Students are under increasing pressure, but the media aren’t helping

Too much media attention does not help either

“The university as a whole has taken an irreversible path, the urgency is great”

UM going all out with ideas for a ‘smarter academic year’

“If you lower the bar in first year, there will be more pressure in second year”

University Council discusses standards for binding study advice

NSE: many students consider academic workload too high

About 55 per cent of students think study pressure is 'just right'

More effort, less outcome

" I need to publish -  metaphorically speaking, while riding a bike between classes"

“These people are really tired; the system is failing”

Two workload experts about the results of the ‘sustainable employability monitor’

“I can’t see progress as long as I see colleagues suffer”

Criticism in University Council about the outcome of the sustainable employability monitor

Pilot project for living-in with hosts: “People in Maastricht still have to get used to it”

Hundreds of interested students, twenty matches

Shortage on the Maastricht rooms market back to the level of before the Covid crisis

Friction, but "no new housing crisis", according to UM

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

“We will soon have a small village here”

Six hundred new student homes in Randwyck

Dutch Student Union ranks Wageningen top for student rooms

Maastricht drops in the ranking

Clearer communication towards new students about the housing market

“Make sure you have a room before you move to Maastricht”

Excessive rents for prefab accommodation in Randwyck

According to the Rents Team, its decision could apply to all apartments on the complex

Worries about student housing next year

For the time being, the UM is focussing on Sittard and Heerlen

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

House of Representatives urges bill on internationalisation

Omtzigt and Hermans wish to curb the right to student financing for EER students

Letschert: “I hope that this does not lead to polarisation within UM”

Country-wide reactions to the proposed internationalisation legislation

How can it be that the BSA is deemed controversial, but English-taught programmes aren’t?

The intake of international students, a far more sensitive subject, is not declared 'controversial'

Dijkgraaf praises internationalisation and his own continuum

Minister Dijkgraaf of Education about internationalisation

UM aiming for special position

Internationalisation and language policy

“Further detailing of plans for international students is crucial”

UM President Letschert on minister Dijkgraaf’s internationalisation letter

Internationalisation: everyone must learn Dutch; minister takes control

Education Minister is putting forward new legislation to channel the influx of international students

Not every employee wants to do a course in Dutch

From June also ‘brush-up’ courses for staff only

Speed up the merger plans; Letschert wants to prevent “endless procedure”

Online Q&A session about collaboration between MUMC and UM