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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...
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New entrance, new allure: Gorlaus Building officially completed 25 January 2024The Faculty of Science has gained an extra 30,000 square metres: Thursday 25 January marked the completion of the new Gorlaeus Building. In this secon...
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Expand your digital knowledge at the LUCDH Digital Skills Winter Week 24 January 2024The Winter Week of Digital Skills will take place in the PJ Veth building from 29 January to 2 February. There will be different workshops where you c...
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A quick call with Eric van Hoof on online privacy, knights’ shields and looking left, right and left again 23 January 2024With Sunday 28 January the annual European Data Protection Day, we are drawing attention to data protection and the right to privacy. Because it’s oka...
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Five questions on why we are talking about academic freedom 23 January 2024On 14 February, we will discuss the role of academics in the public debate and how this relates to academic freedom. All students and staff of the uni...
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Call for proposals Scaliger Institute fellowship grants 23 January 2024The submission deadline for applications to Leiden University Libraries (UBL) Scaliger Institute fellowship programmes has been set for 1 April 2024. ...