Getting virtual mud under my fingernails

"It’s enough to make you want to hide under the duvet until spring shows up"

“Some students just enjoy having no social life”

Hikikomori: a Japanese phenomenon spreading to Dutch youth

“You conform, for fear of being excluded from the group”

Interview with social psychologist Karlijn Massar about hazing

“You don’t need to prove yourself time and again”

Growing Up in Science with rector Pamela Habibović

The higher up the ladder, the more overtime

About 90 percent of the professors work more hours than scheduled

“Relax a little, too much stress is counterproductive”

Education Minister Dijkgraaf talks with Maastricht students

Students suffer more from stress, says Statistics Netherlands

The further they get in their study programme, the more they worry about their future

Less fragmentation of work, more faith in staff

Maastricht expert on dealing with work pressure

Minister: universities’ approach to work-related stress must improve

Extra funding from the government is, on its own, not the solution

Academic staff: “Work pressure doesn’t appear to be less, but more”

Urgent appeal during University Council meeting

Uncertain, no self-reflection and ill-mannered: the student as a customer

“We hardly correct students at all”

UM to tackle work pressure from all angles

Mentor system, dealing with whining students, psychological security

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

Rathenau: academia is performing well, but work pressure is high

Teaching staff are getting burned out from the crisis

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