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‘People are equal but not the same’: diversity and inclusion from a legal perspective 18 January 2022
What is written in law and what equality, inclusion and diversity mean in practice is not always the same. This was the focus of this year’s D&I sympo...
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Lessons for better education 13 January 2022
If you could design your own education, how would you do it? That is what the students of the Bachelor Honours Class 'Rebuilding Education' asked them...
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Rutte IV: a fifth of the cabinet studied in Leiden 10 January 2022
The new cabinet has finally taken office. Six of its members studied in Leiden, once again making the University a key supplier to the cabinet. Who ar...
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App helps students study better 10 January 2022
Cramming from a book, making notes or learning summaries. In the past these were about the only ways to memorise your course material. But that has lo...
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Six prospective members of the new cabinet studied in Leiden 04 January 2022
The Rutte IV cabinet will be sworn in soon. A fifth of the prospective ministers and secretaries of state studied in Leiden. Who are they and what did...
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Mental health monitor for Leiden students reveals need for more action 23 December 2021
Last month, research by the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) revealed that more than half of students in higher profess...
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Leiden University student attends Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony 22 December 2021
Natalia Sobrino-Saeb has attended the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo. She was awarded this honour after winning the essay competition of the...
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How an elective at the Academy of Art enriches your studies 20 December 2021
Students who also want to develop their artistic talents can take a year-long art class – Practicum Artium – at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague....
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Equality as a driver for diversity: ‘Seek out contradiction and the unknown’ 19 December 2021
The freedom to be who you are – woman, man, homosexual, heterosexual, transgender, religious, atheist, and so on – is perhaps the Netherlands’ greates...
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Talk and debate: how do we prevent science from harming the environment? 14 December 2021
Sustainability researchers can play an important role in the energy transition. But what if their partners are not (yet) sustainable and science itsel...
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Professional female footballers have to play like a man 06 December 2021
Women’s football is steadily gaining attention. It’s as though the sport is becoming emancipated. And yet in conversations with professional female fo...
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Curator Ruurd Halbertsma: ‘Surely we can’t just sweep away antiquity?’ 06 December 2021
Like many others, Ruurd Halbertsma has had a rollercoaster of a year. His museum, the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO), was closed for a long whil...
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Students work with local community 06 December 2021
Problems cannot always be solved from a desk. Students on the Master’s in Governance of Sustainability therefore went to various Leiden neighbourhoods...
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‘Studying in Leiden is a life-changing experience’: students on the LExS grant 03 December 2021
Last year around 2,000 international students started a master’s degree at Leiden University. To make this possible, there are various grants that the...
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Giving makes you happy 03 December 2021
Receiving a gift is nice, but giving a present also makes you happy. Development psychologist Mara van der Meulen former member of the Leiden Consorti...