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Children’s Rights Scholarship 2 Scholarship
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Ton Liefaard Professor Children's Rights
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid

Rehana Dole Programme Manager UNICEF Chair in Children's Rights
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid

Mariëlle Bruning Professor of Children and the Law
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid

Ann Skelton Professor Children's rights in a sustainable world
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid

Education of your children Social life and settling in
In the Netherlands children attend school from the age of 4 and are legally required to do so from the age of 5. Elementary school, or primary education (basisschool), lasts 8 years.

Honorary doctorate for child rights activist Graça Machel News - 19 January 2021
Mozambican politician and child rights activist Graça Machel will receive an honorary doctorate from Leiden University for her commitment to the rights of women and children in Africa and elsewhere. She will be awarded the honorary doctorate on the Dies Natalis, the University’s foundation day, on 8…

Bored or scared children? Teachers’ behaviour makes a big difference News - 17 January 2023
Teacher training should do more to prepare teachers for the pedagogical aspects of teaching, Professor of Educational Sciences Tim Mainhard will argue in his inaugural lecture. ‘Children who find learning difficult particularly benefit from a close relationship with their teacher.’

Autistic children develop social-emotional skills with other children News - 10 November 2021
Autistic children have indeed potential: most of their emotional abilities improve with age, concludes developmental psychologist Boya Li in her research on the emotional development of autistic children. Promotion on 10 November 2021.

An app to help children overcome anxiety News - 14 January 2022
Anke Klein and her team have devised a fun and useful app to help anxious children. In the app, children can upload a video of themselves showing, for example, something that went well for them and share their success with parents, granny or grandad. Developmental psychologist Klein talks about the…

Three questions about delayed language development in children News - 14 October 2021
Around seven per cent of children have difficulty learning their mother tongue because they have some form of developmental language disorder (DLD). World DLD Day on 15 October called attention to this disorder. Development psychologist Neeltje van den Bedem explains why this is important.