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Update Executive Board: Agreement about education budget, but cuts not cancelled News - 12 December 2024
The Schoof cabinet has presented its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regularly look at the consequences of what it deems an irresponsible policy.

Update Executive Board: Senate adopts education budget, cuts to go ahead News - 8 April 2025
The Schoof cabinet has presented its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regularly look at the consequences of what it deems an irresponsible policy.

Protest against higher education cuts: ‘This government is turning its back on the world’ News - 25 November 2024
Over 20,000 students, lecturers, administrators, support staff and many others protested on 25 November against the plans to make billions of cuts to higher education. Students and staff from Leiden University also travelled to The Hague to voice their objections to the disastrous plans.

Dutch Higher Education Award 2022: second place for The Learning Mindset News - 13 May 2022
The Leiden University College (LUC) education team behind The Learning Mindset (TLM) has received 800,000 euro’s during the Dutch Higher Education Award Ceremony 2022. The LUC team was second behind Universteit Twente. The prize was awarded during the annual Comenius Festival of the Comenius Network.…

Update Executive Board: Parliament debates education cuts and self-governance News - 25 April 2025
The Schoof cabinet has presented its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regularly look at the consequences of what it deems an irresponsible policy.

Digital education: what’s working well and what can we improve? News - 2 February 2021
Nearly a year since the abrupt switchover to mostly online learning, the Digital Education seminar gave teaching staff the opportunity to review their experiences. What can stay in 2021 and what must go? Frequently voiced opinions: yes please to digital tools that make lectures more interactive; yes…

Exploring educational experiments: pass/fail and ‘unessays’ at Honours College Law News - 16 May 2025
How to innovate education? In this series, the Honours Academy highlights examples from their educational testing ground that aim to inspire. Today: the liberating effect of pass/fail and ‘unessays’ at Honours College Law.

Scheduled maintenance educational systems 12 and 13 September: Brightspace and other applications not accessible Announcement - 2 September 2025
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Scheduled maintenance educational systems 25 October: Brightspace and other applications not accessible Announcement - 14 October 2025
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Help making higher-education assessments more fair in the age of GenAI Announcement - 21 October 2025
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Rector Hester Bijl on education in times of corona: ‘We have high hopes, but we are also realistic.' News - 6 April 2021
The Dutch universities as a whole are lobbying for a 'normal' academic year from the end of August, where on-campus teaching will be possible. It's a view that Leiden University shares. Rector Hester Bijl talks about what teaching will be like then. She also looks back on a year of lockdown.

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