450 news items found
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Trust me, I’m a university 31 January 2022Technology and privacy, trust and mistrust. A discussion about this broke out when the University installed scanners and students protested. On Wednes...
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‘Limit migrants’ responsibility for voluntary return to their country of origin’ 31 January 2022The EU Return Directive gives migrants residing unlawfully in the European Union the option to leave voluntarily. This is to avoid detention and force...
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Network of student well-being officers create connections 28 January 2022It’s an important theme at the University and beyond: student well-being. Even before coronavirus, research showed that loneliness and the pressure to...
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Symposium on technology and privacy should offer new insights 19 January 2022Video conferencing from your sitting room and algorithms on social media that know your interests: new technology is an increasingly integral part of ...
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University historian Pieter Slaman: ‘I can point to valuable constants and experiments that went too far’ 18 January 2022As University historian, Pieter Slaman researches the University’s past, but he’s equally interested in its present. ‘It’s useful to be familiar with ...
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‘People are equal but not the same’: diversity and inclusion from a legal perspective 18 January 2022What 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 2022If 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 2022The 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 2022Cramming 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 2022The 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 2021Last 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 2021Natalia 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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Equality as a driver for diversity: ‘Seek out contradiction and the unknown’ 19 December 2021The 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 2021Sustainability 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 2021Women’s football is steadily gaining attention. It’s as though the sport is becoming emancipated. And yet in conversations with professional female fo...