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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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Children get to know the university
Second edition of UM Summer Camp
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Dijkgraaf emphasises need for clear rules for PhDs
Rules are not always clear, and that this sometimes has painful consequences
News
International students? Dijkgraaf asks for more patience
It is perhaps the most controversial issue in higher education politics: the influx of international students
News
New chairperson for the University Council: "University democracy is at stake”
Philosopher Teun Dekker to take over from Amanda Kluveld
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External agency to investigate culture at Tragos
The results should lead to an improvement plan
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“No structurally unsafe working climate” in U-Council
No explanation is given; there will first be “internal reflection” again
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No PAS festival this summer
Event to become biennial due to rising costs
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"It is not for the university to determine what you can say or do"
Questions in FASoS council: is every political expression allowed?
Eighty students committed fraud in computer assignments
How many cases of ChatGPT fraud have been reported to the Examination Committee?
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Maastricht received most new bachelor’s students
Final enrolment figures for Dutch universities
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Background
Background
‘Home-grown’ Wolfgang Giernalczyk pulls the strings at UCM
“You don’t need to be a professor to run UCM”
Background
All together in the MECC
Almost 15.000 students will be seated this week
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
News
UM: no doubt about academic independence
Follow The Money: Zuidas has huge influence on tax law specialisation
Background
No worries about the minister’s plans, but concerns about housing and job opportunities
Rector Habibović talking with international students
Background
“These are matters that concern the whole university, they are not state secrets”
Proposition: The work that councils do, is not transparent
Background
"More meetings, but the content of the work hasn’t changed"
Almost a year after the merger between MSM and UM: how is it going?
Background
“It is not true that internationalisation is part of the UM’s DNA”
Three UM employees who do support the plans for a return of the Dutch language in universities
Background
“If you don’t vote, you have no right to complain afterwards”
In the build-up to the university elections
Background
Women’s Day: women are leading in education
More women than men decide to pursue a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, and they generally do better.
Background
“Creating a new education model takes five years’”
Education method HILL, as is used at Fontys Hogeschool, is not modernism
Background
Medical students that you don’t want at your bedside
The minister of Education doesn't give in
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Splinters
Splinters
Blindfolded statues and Maastricht wants to lift paving stones
Short news from Maastricht and elsewhere in the country
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Soap around bar and bomb under Einstein Telescoop?
Short news from Maastricht and elsewhere in the country
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Klokhuis Science Prize and Lewie the Rat
Short news from Maastricht and elsewhere in the country
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Youngsters don't know clubbing etiquette and lectures make too many copies
Short news from Maastricht and elsewhere in the country
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Don't turn the radiator off and carnival is expensive
Short news from Maastricht and elsewhere in the country
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Column full of 30 thousand cigarette buts and Beckett not welcome in Groningen
Short news from Maastricht and elsewhere in the country
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Threats after tweet and enough bathrooms for everyone
Short news from Maastricht and elsewhere in the country
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Strange birds in the Natural History Museum and not enough room for books in Leiden
Short news in Maastricht and elsewhere in the country
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The Designated Driver gets a carnival medal and a boyband that makes music and poems
Short news from Maastricht and elsewhere in the country
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Where are the public bathrooms in Maastricht and these students have an expensive hobby
Short news from Maastricht and elsewhere in the country
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Who will win the Christmas karaoke and testing custard with extra vitamine D
Short news from Maastricht and elsewhere in the country
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Books returned more often and damp student houses
Short news from Maastricht and elsewhere in the country
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