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High workload
"The day is still young, but my to-do list isn’t shrinking fast enough"
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“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
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Four gold medals for bodybuilding PhD student
"At the McDonald’s, I found dozens of other participants"
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Be less vague, please!
All parties somehow want more sustainability and social inclusiveness (who doesn’t in our bubble?)
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‘Home-grown’ Wolfgang Giernalczyk pulls the strings at UCM
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Young Academy: make everyone a professor
Assistant and associate professors should have the same rights as professors, according to them
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Great demand for ‘smarter’ (i.e. shorter) academic year
Maastricht University takes part in pilot
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Second edition of UM Summer Camp
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“It helps me leave the boxes that I have been put in”
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Four gold medals for bodybuilding PhD student
"At the McDonald’s, I found dozens of other participants"
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“I used to go to church because my parents made me, but now I want to go”
A room of one’s own
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“When the word ‘Africa’ is mentioned in class, everyone looks to me”
A room of one’s own
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“It feels good to give back to the community”
A room of one’s own
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Predicting reading problems before children can even read
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Medical students that you don’t want at your bedside
The minister of Education doesn't give in
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One Vici grant for Maastricht
UM research on reading problems of children
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“Some students just enjoy having no social life”
Hikikomori: a Japanese phenomenon spreading to Dutch youth
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What a Dutch passport means for your school grades
Dissertation Prize for engineer and sociologist Marie Labussière
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High workload
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Be less vague, please!
All parties somehow want more sustainability and social inclusiveness (who doesn’t in our bubble?)
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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)"
Editorial
A slightly annoyed tone
'You’ve made it seem like only a very small minority of UM employees support Rianne Letschert’s position’
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Eurovision in Maastricht?
The one thing that always frustrated me about Eurovision is how undemocratic it is
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