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Getting virtual mud under my fingernails
"It’s enough to make you want to hide under the duvet until spring shows up"
Background
“Some students just enjoy having no social life”
Hikikomori: a Japanese phenomenon spreading to Dutch youth
Background
“You conform, for fear of being excluded from the group”
Interview with social psychologist Karlijn Massar about hazing
Background
“You don’t need to prove yourself time and again”
Growing Up in Science with rector Pamela Habibović
News
The higher up the ladder, the more overtime
About 90 percent of the professors work more hours than scheduled
Reportage
“Relax a little, too much stress is counterproductive”
Education Minister Dijkgraaf talks with Maastricht students
News
Students suffer more from stress, says Statistics Netherlands
The further they get in their study programme, the more they worry about their future
Background
Less fragmentation of work, more faith in staff
Maastricht expert on dealing with work pressure
News
Minister: universities’ approach to work-related stress must improve
Extra funding from the government is, on its own, not the solution
News
Academic staff: “Work pressure doesn’t appear to be less, but more”
Urgent appeal during University Council meeting
Background
Uncertain, no self-reflection and ill-mannered: the student as a customer
“We hardly correct students at all”
Background
UM to tackle work pressure from all angles
Mentor system, dealing with whining students, psychological security
Opinion articles
On being a scientist: is it a lifestyle or a 9-5-job?
“I feel more like a machine than a lecturer”
Work pressure for UCM lecturers sky high
"At 7.30 in the morning I'm already on my mountain bike"
The second wave: Mark Govers
News
Rathenau: academia is performing well, but work pressure is high
News
Teaching staff are getting burned out from the crisis
News
Concerns about work pressure because of mentor programmes
Up to their eyeballs in teaching duties
UM report: workload is a complicated and extensive problem
Salaries up, workload down
Debate on teaching load dies away in numerical mess