450 news items found
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Cleveringa Professor Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You: ‘Exclusion is dangerous’ 18 November 2024Amid rising polarisation and discrimination, lawyer and human rights activist Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You wants to show in her Cleveringa Lecture on ...
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Live blog: Alternative demonstrations in Leiden and The Hague against government cuts 14 November 2024Alternative demonstrations were held in Leiden and The Hague on Thursday 14 November after the national protest in Utrecht was cancelled. Leiden Unive...
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UPDATE: Demonstration against higher education cuts cancelled; sign the petition 13 November 2024The national demonstration against higher education cuts on 14 November in Utrecht will not go ahead. Utrecht Mayor Dijksma has advised the organisers...
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1575th student receives Honours College certificate 11 November 2024On the eve of Leiden University’s 450th anniversary, the 1574th and 1575th Honours College students received their honours certificates. In a crowded ...
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Update: Executive Board responds to government cuts 09 November 2024The Schoof cabinet has presented its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regul...
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Research offers surprising insights into historical crime in The Hague 04 November 2024Theft, prostitution, fortune-telling or murder. Historian Manon van der Heijden and a group of students are researching court records from The Hague f...
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NWO grant for the Facebook of the past: ‘Circulating images aren’t new’ 04 November 2024GIFs, memes and videos: anyone who opens a social media platform can be in no doubt that today we live in a visual culture. But the role of images in ...
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Student and entrepreneur: ‘PLNT The Hague is the place to find like-minded people’ 28 October 2024Taking a Bachelor’s in Security Studies while starting and running two businesses: student Mohamed Sulaiman never stops. But he wouldn’t have it any o...
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Once more Erasmus grants awarded for international cooperation 28 October 2024This year, eleven exchange projects from Leiden University received an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility education grant. The total award of almo...
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Sustainability Monitor 2023: Leiden University substantially reduces carbon emissions 28 October 2024The Sustainability Monitor 2023 shows that Leiden University is taking its sustainability efforts seriously. It is working on a greener campus and to ...
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Eleven Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants 22 October 2024The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 11 Leiden researchers. This grant of up to 850,000 euros will enable them to develop an in...
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Fanny Wonu Veys: ‘I want to introduce students to the art history of Oceania’ 22 October 2024Fanny Wonu Veys was appointed Professor of Art and Material Culture of Oceania on 1 August. Time for an introduction.
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Busy yet not a student in sight: the Online Master’s Open Days 22 October 2024‘Silence in the corridor please’ are not the words you expect to hear on an open day attended by 5,000 students. From 12 studios in Leiden and The Hag...
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Assessors: for 25 years an essential link between students and the university 22 October 2024For 25 years now, each faculty has had an assessor, a student representing the interests of all the faculty’s students. Yet few students are aware of ...
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Crash course in journalism: students make a podcast with TV presenter Twan Huys 21 October 2024Leiden students are producing ‘College Tour, the podcast!’ with TV presenter Twan Huys. In next to no time, they have to find top journalists and prep...