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UM: no doubt about academic independence

UM: no doubt about academic independence

High workload
Editorial

High workload

"The day is still young, but my to-do list isn’t shrinking fast enough"
“Some students are even too active; not everything is suitable to discuss in the council”
Background

“Some students are even too active; not everything is suitable to discuss in the council”

Proposition: Students and employees are only on councils to boost their CVs
Four gold medals for bodybuilding PhD student
News

Four gold medals for bodybuilding PhD student

"At the McDonald’s, I found dozens of other participants"
Be less vague, please!
Student column

Be less vague, please!

All parties somehow want more sustainability and social inclusiveness (who doesn’t in our bubble?)
More articles

News & Background

‘Home-grown’ Wolfgang Giernalczyk pulls the strings at UCM

‘Home-grown’ Wolfgang Giernalczyk pulls the strings at UCM

Young Academy: make everyone a professor
News

Young Academy: make everyone a professor

Assistant and associate professors should have the same rights as professors, according to them
Great demand for ‘smarter’ (i.e. shorter) academic year
News

Great demand for ‘smarter’ (i.e. shorter) academic year

Maastricht University takes part in pilot
Blindfolded statues and Maastricht wants to lift paving stones
Splinters

Blindfolded statues and Maastricht wants to lift paving stones

Short news from Maastricht and elsewhere in the country
Children get to know the university
News

Children get to know the university

Second edition of UM Summer Camp
More news and background
Student Award 2023
Tweets by observantUM

People

“It helps me leave the boxes that I have been put in”

“It helps me leave the boxes that I have been put in”

Four gold medals for bodybuilding PhD student
News

Four gold medals for bodybuilding PhD student

"At the McDonald’s, I found dozens of other participants"
“I used to go to church because my parents made me, but now I want to go”
Interview

“I used to go to church because my parents made me, but now I want to go”

A room of one’s own
“When the word ‘Africa’ is mentioned in class, everyone looks to me”
Interview

“When the word ‘Africa’ is mentioned in class, everyone looks to me”

A room of one’s own
“It feels good to give back to the community”
Interview

“It feels good to give back to the community”

A room of one’s own
More People

Science

Predicting reading problems before children can even read

Predicting reading problems before children can even read

Medical students that you don’t want at your bedside
Background

Medical students that you don’t want at your bedside

The minister of Education doesn't give in
One Vici grant for Maastricht
News

One Vici grant for Maastricht

UM research on reading problems of children
“Some students just enjoy having no social life”
Background

“Some students just enjoy having no social life”

Hikikomori: a Japanese phenomenon spreading to Dutch youth
What a Dutch passport means for your school grades
Background

What a Dutch passport means for your school grades

Dissertation Prize for engineer and sociologist Marie Labussière
More Science

Columns & Opinion

High workload

High workload

Be less vague, please!
Student column

Be less vague, please!

All parties somehow want more sustainability and social inclusiveness (who doesn’t in our bubble?)
The jobs that don’t count, but do
Column

The jobs that don’t count, but do

"Hands red raw I learned some valuable lessons doing that work - the importance of the right tool for the job (steel wool)"
A slightly annoyed tone
Editorial

A slightly annoyed tone

'You’ve made it seem like only a very small minority of UM employees support Rianne Letschert’s position’
Eurovision in Maastricht?
Student column

Eurovision in Maastricht?

The one thing that always frustrated me about Eurovision is how undemocratic it is
More columns and opinion

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