2025 annual report: Extra money to reduce workload

Huge windfall for Maastricht University

Students feel less academic pressure

Three-quarters generally satisfied with their programme

Have you taken your vacation days yet?

Survey by Dutch universities and trade unions on holiday entitlement

 “You’re thrown in at the deep end and left to figure it out on your own”

Young researchers about their work-life balance

“They said, ‘We’ve done enough talking.’ Well, certainly not with me”

A farewell interview with Jan Smits, dean of the Faculty of Law

FPN discusses academic pressure

"It’s okay if some students find the programme demanding"

Larger tutorial groups, merging courses: FASoS set to ‘reform’ PBL

Staff and students have concerns

Hard work and a constant feeling of guilt

Young researchers about their work-life balance

“I felt so rushed, I studied 12 hours a day so I wouldn’t miss anything. After the first course period, I was exhausted”

Stress, anxiety, fear of failure: UM students, too, struggle with mental health

2003: Observant columnist Louis Boon feels pressured by rector to quit

Series: the times they are (not) a changin’

“When a professor raises concerns about high workloads, something actually gets done”

Local Consultative Body criticises handling of work pressure and sick leave

The Monday hurdle

I still felt a pang of anxiety during our weekly editorial meeting after autumn break

“Without mistakes, without uncertainty, there is no growth”

President Rianne Letschert on the balance between performance and relaxation

Trimbos: Students are under increasing pressure, but the media aren’t helping

Too much media attention does not help either

“The university as a whole has taken an irreversible path, the urgency is great”

UM going all out with ideas for a ‘smarter academic year’

“If you lower the bar in first year, there will be more pressure in second year”

University Council discusses standards for binding study advice

NSE: many students consider academic workload too high

About 55 per cent of students think study pressure is 'just right'

More effort, less outcome

" I need to publish -  metaphorically speaking, while riding a bike between classes"

“These people are really tired; the system is failing”

Two workload experts about the results of the ‘sustainable employability monitor’

“I can’t see progress as long as I see colleagues suffer”

Criticism in University Council about the outcome of the sustainable employability monitor

High workload

"The day is still young, but my to-do list isn’t shrinking fast enough"

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