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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Join the protest against the higher education cuts 13 November 2024Students and staff from Leiden University are protesting in The Hague on 25 November against the billions in cuts to higher education. ‘The cuts are a...
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Professor of Dutch History Henk te Velde to be new interim Dean of the Faculty of Humanities 12 November 2024Professor of Dutch History prof.dr. H. (Henk) te Velde will become interim Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Leiden University for a two-year term ...
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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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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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Claudia Robustella: 'I've learned to accept myself and my mental health issues' 04 November 2024During her student years, Claudia Robustella struggled with her mental health. Thanks in part to the help of her study coordinator Rosa van Straten, s...
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Update Executive Board: Dark clouds over the humanities 29 October 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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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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Back to the Future: What vision of the future did people have during perestroika? 24 October 2024In many Central and Eastern European countries, a period of greater openness emerged in the late 1980s. How did this affect the future perspective of ...
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Update Executive Board: Working groups looking at measures to absorb cuts 23 October 2024
The 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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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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Update Executive Board: 'The Balanced Internationalisation Bill even stricter than we had feared' 22 October 2024
The Schoof cabinet has presented its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regul...