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Honours education at Leiden University
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LUMC Education Building, Hippocratespad 21, 2333 ZD, Leiden

Sylvia Vink Educational advisor and researcher
Leiden Learning and Innovation Centre

Ieke van Dam PhD Candidate - Inclusive Education
ICLON

Esther de Vrind Director of education
ICLON

Lessons for better education News - 13 January 2022
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 themselves. The students were divided into five groups in which they designed workshops to improve education. They presented their workshops in December in…

Scheduled maintenance educational systems on 27 June Announcement - 19 June 2025
ICT, Organisation

Sustainability Day: Sustainability embedded in our education News - 10 October 2025
In our teaching, Leiden University gives all students the opportunity to learn about sustainability themes and issues. Social issues, including sustainable development, are addressed in the teaching and research at all of our faculties. On this Day of Sustainability, we highlight a number of subject…

Educational innovation at Humanities: 'Students are great initiators’ News - 2 August 2021
In the academic year 2018 - 2019, the Faculty of Humanities established the Educational Innovation Programme. In this way, the faculty wants to realise the ambitions from the educational vision of Leiden University in education. How is the programme currently doing? We talked to project manager Sanne…

OCW-survey on codetermination in higher education News - 22 March 2021
The Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) has started a survey to identify the success factors of a strong codetermination culture within higher education institutes. All members of a codetermination council in higher education can participate in this survey until 2 April.

Join the protest against the higher education cuts News - 13 November 2024
Students 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 terrible idea and we want to show why’, says Claire Weeda from WOinActie. ‘Research and teaching are essential to society.’

Scheduled maintenance educational systems 13 and 19 December Announcement - 27 November 2025

Scheduled maintenance education systems 22 till 23 May Announcement - 6 May 2026

New programme brings education 'to the midst of society' News - 14 October 2021
In November a new extracurricular programme will begin: the Impact Challenges. Students will work together in small groups to solve problems, put forward by partner organisations. In this way, they train their practical skills and make a contribution to society.

Opening of the Academic Year: ‘Stop the cuts to education’ News - 2 September 2024
Scrap the radical cuts to research and teaching. This was researchers and students’ message to government at the opening of the new academic year. Various speakers in Leiden’s Pieterskerk highlighted the importance of science for society.