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Leiden University/LUMC to drop cum laude honour for Master’s in Medicine 10 April 2024As of 1 September 2024, the cum laude honour will no longer be awarded for the Master’s in Medicine. The Executive Board recently decided to grant an ...
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‘I am not conscious about what I spend my money on’ 10 April 2024How do you make sure you have enough money every month? Do you receive a basic grant, have a part-time job or do you borrow for your studies? Below, a...
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University elections: these are the staff parties you can vote for 09 April 2024The university elections are approaching. The commuting allowance, less bureaucracy, greater appreciation for teaching: what needs more attention? Fro...
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Small fire in Snellius building: no injuries, building reopened on Wednesday 09 April 2024At around noon on Tuesday 9 April, a small fire started in the basement of Leiden University’s Snellius building. The fire brigade was quickly on the ...
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Students advice security experts: 'Fantastic combination of research and practice' 08 April 2024Presenting a well-thought-out idea to Schiphol experts, a former ambassador or a security expert. For the third-year Security Studies bachelor student...
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The internet has many bosses. It’s chaotic but it works 08 April 2024Governing the internet is rather chaotic, says Professor Jan Aart Scholte. ‘But it works.’ Not only do national and local governments have a say but a...
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Child rights expert sounds the alarm: ‘Global crises are hitting children hardest’ 08 April 2024Wars, climate change and the effects of covid have caused a global decline in children’s well-being. In her inaugural lecture Ann Skelton, Professor o...
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Democracy under pressure worldwide: 'Türkiye is a textbook example of how countries become autocracies' 05 April 2024What is the state of democracy in developing and transition countries in 2024? Terrible, according to the BTI Transformation Index: only 63 out of 137...
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A shared path to well-being: ‘Someone has to be the first to say: let’s do things differently’ 04 April 2024How do we offer students a helping hand without losing sight of our own well-being? This was the question that study advisers, lecturers, deans and st...
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A quick call with Margaret Gold about citizen science 04 April 2024April is the month of showers and tulip fields but did you know that it is also Global Citizen Science Month? And the future of our Leiden citizen sci...
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A staff exchange with your European peers: ‘Everyone could benefit from this’ 03 April 2024Fancy seeing how your job is done at a university abroad? Project Managers Christina Schlüpen and Jeannette de Wolf from the Leiden Institute of Chemi...
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Coffee with Gert Renkema: ‘We are the fastest growing faculty at Leiden University’ 02 April 2024Twice a year, Gert Renkema, Head of Financial and Economic Affairs at FGGA, offers us an insight into all that is going on around FGGA's finances. Wit...
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How can we banish racism from education? 28 March 2024A safe haven for students, more bicultural staff and more powers for diversity officers. In a national expert meeting at Campus The Hague, administrat...
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The Top 450 is growing: entry number 50 published 27 March 2024We have reached our first milestone: the 50th Top 450 entry has now been published. In the run-up to the university’s 450th anniversary in 2025, we ar...
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Surprising results of research on counterterrorism: ‘Assumptions surrounding Trump may be wrong’ 27 March 2024It was pouring rain when Alexander Gallo received his diploma from West Point Military Academy. A bad sign, people said back then. It was June 2001, t...