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Research Traineeship Programme completed: 'Here you are encouraged to try things' 15 September 2023
Discovering while still studying whether work in science might be for you. That is what students get during the faculty Research Traineeship Programme...
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Bruno Verbeek: 'If your teaching is going well, you have to innovate' 06 February 2023
Three Humanities lecturers received the Senior Qualification in Education (SKO) this year. University lecturer Bruno Verbeek is one of them. What does...
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A boost for open source laboratory education: 175,000 euro subsidy 15 June 2022
A 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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Ten lecturers receive Senior Teaching Qualification 28 June 2021
On 28 June, ten dedicated lecturers received their Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO). Rector Hester Bijl congratulated them in an online meeting. We...
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Digital skills at History 18 June 2021
In her teaching, University Lecturer of Ancient History Liesbeth Claes uses various digital tools. Using that experience and interest she started an i...
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Pressure cooker for education 09 November 2020
How do you offer proper education in times of corona? Annebeth Simonsz (Educational Advice and Quality Assurance) and Anna Benjamins (ECOLe) work clos...
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More skills and higher grades: E-learning skills platform continues to be a success 21 September 2020
After a promising start, also the second pilot of the digital Brightspace skills platform is a success. Third-year bachelor students had thirty new ...
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Margot van der Doef first Leiden psychologist to hold Senior Teaching Qualification 06 July 2020
'Continuing to work on my professional development is inspiring and stimulating, and it’s rewarding to have an influence on how psychology is taught.’...
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Successful start of e-learning skills platform in Brightspace 29 April 2020
For the first time, students were able to develop their skills using a digital platform in Brightspace. It turned out to be a success: on average stud...
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‘Teaching is a craft, not engineering’ 02 March 2020
Brandon Zicha (Leiden University College The Hague) had always been critical of the teaching system at universities. But it was only when he passed th...
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Digital Examination: easier marked and faster results 04 June 2019
Digital examination is an emerging new form of examination: exams are easier to mark and students get their grades faster. This year, on the basis of ...
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New insights to support teachers and pupils 27 November 2018
Good 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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The winner of the 2018 Faculty Teaching Prize 05 September 2018
The Teaching Prize is presented every year during the opening of the Faculty Year as a means of showing our excellent, devoted lecturers the appreciat...
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FGGA Honours course 'Wicked Problems Lab' has started 06 February 2018
Today, February 6th, the new course Wicked Problems Lab (in full: Wicked Problems Lab: working with governance, leadership and social innovation) star...