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Fifteen lecturers gain Senior Teaching Qualification 05 February 2024Fifteen passionate lecturers earned their Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO) on Monday 22 January. Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl congratulated them i...
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‘Don’t assess academic CVs on autopilot’ 05 February 2024Hiring academics is more than just tallying up publications, says academic director and history professor Jeroen Duindam. He and his colleagues have c...
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Dutch Student Orchestra celebrates female composer: 'Deserve to be heard' 05 February 2024Every year in February, ninety students who love making music come together in Someren, a town in the Dutch province of North Brabant. Through rehears...
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Fun opening of the second semester: 'Let's support each other' 05 February 2024On the first day of February, employees of the Faculty of Humanities gathered in the Faculty Club. They were there to usher in the new semester, while...
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Announcement new name Cluster Zuid 01 February 2024Today, Leiden University announces who the new Cluster Zuid on the Witte Singel will be named after. Summer 2023, a ballot determined the name of the ...
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Peace in the Middle East? Students seek solutions in Peace Academy 01 February 2024Finding solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the not-inconsiderable task of the new Peace Academy in The Hague. Professor Maurits Berger a...
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High school students get acquainted with language studies at profile selection day 01 February 2024The Choose a Language Day was created to make high school students enthusiastic about choosing a linguistic profile and further education. Third-years...
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Deans in the lecture halls: 'I can imagine that students enjoy being here.' 01 February 2024Do all graduates in the humanities pursue a career in education? What does support for incoming students look like in Leiden? And what makes a languag...
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Learning from miscarriages of justice with the new European Registry of Exonerations 30 January 2024Why do innocent people sometimes spend years in prison? EUREX is a registry of miscarriages of justice in Europe that ultimately led to exonerations. ...
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Interview with Rector Hester Bijl: ‘There is no place for antisemitism here’ 30 January 2024Leiden University is under fire: it is allegedly doing too little to tackle antisemitism. Rector Hester Bijl responds to this accusation and to a vide...
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Algorithms and data behind Leiden Ranking in public domain 30 January 2024Unlike other major university rankings, the Leiden Ranking – Open Edition is completely transparent. The ranking compiled by the Centre for Science an...
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Growing diversity of Dutch population not immediately visible at universities 29 January 2024The intake of bachelor’s students from classic immigration countries whose prior education was in the Netherlands does not reflect the growing diversi...
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Results of the National Student Survey (NSE) 2023: more attention needed for career preparation 29 January 2024Every year the National Centre for Study Choice asks students to evaluate their degree programme via the NSE. Data from the survey helps improve progr...
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Students become ‘change agents’ in Sustainability Challenge 29 January 2024Leiden students working to solve a sustainability problem at the request of an external party: that is the Sustainability Challenge. During a recent s...
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State Secretary Gräper visits to discuss cultural heritage and opening up collections 26 January 2024How should we address our colonial heritage? And how digital and accessible are our collections? Outgoing State Secretary Fleur Gräper spoke with rese...