Video conferencing from your sitting room and algorithms on social media that know your interests: new technology is an increasingly integral part of ...

More than a course. That was the aim of the Leiden Tutoring program. Through weekly tutoring lessons, students did not just earn five EC. They also he...

As University historian, Pieter Slaman researches the University’s past, but he’s equally interested in its present. ‘It’s useful to be familiar with ...

What 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...

Getting to know all his colleagues as fast as possible, and learning about the faculty’s strengths: these will be Jasper Knoester’s first challenges. ...

If 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...

Cramming 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...

The 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...

The 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...

Last month, research by the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) revealed that more than half of students in higher profess...

Natalia Sobrino-Saeb has attended the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo. She was awarded this honour after winning the essay competition of the...

Students who also want to develop their artistic talents can take a year-long art class – Practicum Artium – at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague....

Research into depression in children, Leiden alumni in the Dutch House of Representatives and an exceptional achievement by one of our students: what ...

The freedom to be who you are – woman, man, homosexual, heterosexual, transgender, religious, atheist, and so on – is perhaps the Netherlands’ greates...

Heavy! This is the first word that comes to lecturer Marjo de Graauw’s mind when she looks back on the past year. But with her creativity and experien...