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European CLIL community gathers in Leiden08 November 2024Recently, ICLON welcomed some 75 colleagues from 15 European countries for a meeting on Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in research an...
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Political scientist teaches VWO pupils: ‘some knew more than I did at that age’05 November 2024It is a full classroom: more than 30 pupils from 5 and 6 vwo are present to listen to political scientist Leila Demarest's lecture. She gives a brief ...
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Researcher teaching in the classroom: ‘We need to imitate nature more closely’27 June 2024How can we supply the growing world population with sustainable energy? At Laurens Lyceum in Rotterdam, Prof. Marc Koper speaks with the students abou...
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How do you evaluate quality of teaching?14 May 2024What do we really know about educational quality and its measurement? This was the subject of the first Higher Education Knowledge Café.
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World Teachers Festival: a celebration of globally-minded educators07 May 2024On 21 March 2024, the ‘learners’ at Wolfert Bilingual in Rotterdam were not teenagers, but some 180 teachers and teacher educators from around the Net...
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Bilingual and international education central to World Teachers Programme22 April 2024In this bilingual profile, you follow university teacher training with a special focus on language, culture and diversity in bilingual and internation...
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Interview with Markus Davidsen on his Comenius project12 April 2024Assistant professor Markus Davidsen has received the Comenius grant, with which he wishes to improve secondary education on religion. In this intervie...
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Escaping from a sarcophagus: students from the Living Education Lab minor create an educational tool18 March 2024How do students start asking more questions on a museum visit? Let them free an Egyptian princess from a sarcophagus! In the minor Living Education La...
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Meet the professor: ‘Can my sister be prosecuted for stealing my eraser?’08 February 2024On the university’s birthday, professors traditionally teach a class of 10 and 11-year-olds during Meet the Professor, and this year was no different....
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As many as a hundred ideas in minor Living Education Lab14 November 2023Students presented the prototypes of educational tools they made in the first ten weeks of the new minor Living Education Lab. We asked two students ...
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Part-time work in schools: ‘Students get to see how great teaching really is’17 July 2023Given the teacher shortage, secondary schools could use an extra pair of hands. Alfrink College in Zoetermeer is glad to have students from the univer...
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Four Comenius teaching awards for Leiden lecturers27 June 2023Two lecturers from Leiden University have received a Comenius teaching award of 100,000 euros as part of the Senior Fellows programme. And a further t...
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A boost for open source laboratory education: 175,000 euro subsidy15 June 2022A project to improve practicals in science courses has been awarded a 175,000 subsidy. Leiden physicist Paul Logman is one of the applicants, together...
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Queen Máxima pays a virtual visit to ‘StudentinzetopSchool’14 April 2021Students from ‘StudentinzetopSchool’ help schoolchildren and gain valuable teaching experience at the same time. In an online visit on 13 April, Queen...
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Inquiry-based learning: smart tools help lecturers adapt their courses23 November 2020Engaged, active students who can see the links within their discipline. These are key aims of the University vision on teaching and learning, but how ...