Letschert: “When it comes to people stabbing you in the back or questioning your integrity – no, I don’t have thick skin”

Maastricht University’s leader for nearly a decade: a farewell interview with Rianne Letschert

Hard work and a constant feeling of guilt

Young researchers about their work-life balance

Lack of transparency and unclear career paths

Maastricht Young Academy publishes critical report on Recognition & Rewards

“Listen to the employees, take their points seriously”

About Recognition and Rewards for support staff

“Anyone who wants to dictate the language I teach in is infringing on my academic freedom”

Farewell interview with Harald Merckelbach, departing dean of FPN

“We, the scientists, can release the pressure ourselves”

It’s all about the money? Science, workload and what to do

A gown for everyone in Utrecht and old-fashioned e-mails at Law

Short news from Maastricht or elsewhere in the country

"Three years ago, a person like me, with my research profile, wouldn’t be a dean"

Interview with new UCM dean Wolfgang Giernalczyk

Postdocs sceptical about recognition and reward

Poll ScienceGuide

“Science communication should be thought about (even) more seriously within the academic world”

Faculty of Science and Engineering starts training on ‘science communication’

AWTI: despite teething problems, ‘recognise and reward’ is the wave of the future

"This isn’t just happening in the Netherlands. It’s a global movement"

Demand for ‘recognition and reward’ across Europe

Greater recognition for teaching, sharing data, providing leadership and relation with society

Less research time for scientists who publish too little

New rules for assessing researchers at FASoS

“It’s like parenting, you will encounter situations that were never discussed in literature”

Series: leadership styles at UM

Dijkgraaf fully supports ‘recognition and rewards’

“I am very proud that the Netherlands is taking the lead in this international discussion"

Dutch Research Council gauges opinions on talent grants

The grants have become so important for researchers’ careers that there is a rush to get hold of them

“Before long, the winner will be the best salesman, not the best researcher”

"We are in a difficult period in which we are trying to get a different system off the ground"

Faculty of Law: more money for staff

About 1 million euro a year for the next five years

Less work pressure, more work pleasure

Chapeau: New FASoS strategic plan

The Peter Principle and the Promotion of Incompetence

"Getting paired with a nice, competent boss should not be left to luck"

Rector Rianne Letschert to become the new UM President

“I think it is awful that teaching at universities is so underrated"

Best practices Recognition and Rewards: having a look in Utrecht

"The idea that the teaching career track would be an easy one to become Professor, no, it doesn't work that way"

Best practices Recognition and Rewards: teaching careers at FHML

Checklists are no longer the point of departure

Recognition and Rewards: Vanessa LaPointe of MERLN about their “more on development instead of assessment”-focused tenure track

“When talking to your scientists you will also have to pay attention to the financial matters”

Recognition and Rewards: FSE-dean Thomas Cleij about their pilot 'flexible performance criteria'

On being a scientist: is it a lifestyle or a 9-5-job?