450 news items found
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Community support officer bows out: ‘My face on a mug got me known’ 17 May 2023He was a popular face in the Leiden student world and even developed his own merchandise, but all good things come to an end. After seven years, commu...
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Man, woman and more: 'Why does my passport have to say I'm a woman?' 17 May 2023Protests against textbooks on trans persons in America and against a reading hour by drag queens in Rotterdam: it has been raining protests recently a...
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From Leiden to Japan: ‘As a news correspondent, I really get to know the country’ 17 May 2023It was a family friend who told him to quit his self-destructive work in IT: ‘Go do something with your life!’ So at the age of 23, Anoma van der Veer...
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Our Earth is becoming unliveable. Can we still turn the tide? 16 May 2023We have crossed six of the nine boundaries within which human life on Earth will still be possible for future generations. That is not good news. Can ...
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What influence did French really have on Dutch? 15 May 2023Just as some people today dislike English influences on the Dutch language, in early modern times people also criticised the Frenchification of Dutch....
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Test expert Coen van 't Veer: 'The Dutch final exam is a good measuring tool' 15 May 2023Not passed your Dutch exam? Then there’s no HAVO (Higher General Secondary) or VWO (pre-university) diploma for you, says the Inspectorate of Educatio...
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How climate change affects intangible heritage: ‘Specific materials to build instruments are disappearing’ 11 May 2023What do climate change and traditional Japanese music have to do with each other? A great deal, university lecturer Andrea Giolai suspects. He has bee...
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Cabinet proposal for binding study advice: not a wise plan 09 May 2023On 9 May, Minister Dijkgraaf of Education, Culture and Science (OCW), announced his plans for amending the Binding Study Advice (BSA). If the Minister...
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Summer full of summer schools at Humanities 09 May 2023This summer, the Faculty of Humanities is once again offering a wide range of summer schools for staff and students. From acting to Indian linguistics...
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Clichéd version of an autocracy or a restored democracy? The Turkish elections explained 08 May 2023In less than a week’s time, millions of Turkish people are going to decide who will govern their country for the next five years. These elections prom...
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‘Nearly every research study has a governance dimension, but academics know very little about it’ 08 May 2023The annual conference of the Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) interdisciplinary research programme will take place in The Hague...
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What do you do if your professor winks at you? 03 May 2023Sexual harassment was the theme of the recent annual symposium of student ambassadors to the Leiden-Bollenstreek police in collaboration with the poli...
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Freedom: International students and staff tell us what it means to them 03 May 2023On 5 May we celebrate freedom, a basic human right that cannot be taken for granted in many countries. We asked international students and staff what ...
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Liveable Planet present at LUGO Sustainability Day 03 May 2023Liveable Planet, the Leiden interdisciplinary research programme on sustainability, has a full presence at the LUGO Sustainability Day on Tuesday 9 Ma...
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Nicolien Mizee new writer in residence at Leiden University 01 May 2023Writer and columnist Nicolien Mizee will be Leiden University’s new writer in residence from autumn 2023.