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Prizes for students 07 May 2020Ups and downs for students from year 12 and/or vwo 6 who are selected for the Academic Challenge and the Dutch version of this challenge, the ‘Wetensc...
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‘A good lecturer treats students as young professionals from the start’ 20 January 2020Passionate, innovative lecturers are the driving force behind our education. Janine Geerling, former assistant professor of the Bio-Pharmaceutical Sci...
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2019 Hall of fame 07 January 2020Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a...
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Speaking a foreign language: Is fluency ‘a must’? 25 November 2019Nivja de Jong, researcher at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) and the Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching (ICLON), has wo...
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Pedagogies in bilingual education 06 August 2019In the Netherlands approximately 130 out of 700 secondary schools offer a bilingual stream. However, research about CLIL (Content and Language Integra...
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'Offer research and design processes in a varied manner' 06 August 2019Research and design are two activities that are becoming increasingly important in the Dutch subjects O&O (‘research and design’) and NLT ('nature, l...
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Focus on extended essays: Leiden University’s Academic Challenge 07 June 2019For most school students, writing their extended essay (or profielwerkstuk) is the first time they really come into contact with what it means to do r...
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Two major teaching grants for Leiden lecturers 23 April 2019Studying with an app and exploratory learning in large groups. Two educational innovations that will be possible thanks to the Comenius Programme of t...
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‘Students describe my module as an emotional rollercoaster’ 17 April 2019Thanks to Ian Cook’s ‘Who Made My Clothes?’ MOOC, thousands of students have researched where their clothes come from. How does this geographer from t...
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Mayke Vereijken appointed Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 01 April 2019Mayke Vereijken (ICLON) has been appointed Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).
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2018 Hall of Fame 21 December 2018Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a...
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New insights to support teachers and pupils 27 November 2018Good education is the basis for a fair and sustainable society. To maintain a high level of education, teachers, pupils, lecturers and students need n...
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Creating and celebrating excellent Extended Essays: launching Leiden University’s Academic Challenge 12 November 2018The ‘Wetenschapscongres for vwo’ gets an Anglophone edition: 'Leiden University’s Academic Challenge’.
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Effect of peer feedback on academic writing 24 August 2018Feedback from fellow students on academic writing is as informative as that of teachers. That is one of the findings in Bart Huisman's (ICLON) dissert...
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Intercultural training in Vietnam 20 August 2018In Vietnam, foreign trade and culture are pervasive. Therefore, the need arises for students to learn more about cultural differences and intercultura...