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Executive Board column: How we are tackling the smarter academic year 24 April 2023Research by The Young Academy on the length and intensity of the Dutch academic year has given us food for thought. Do our staff have enough time and ...
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Leiden University to take part in ‘smarter academic year’ pilots 04 April 2023Can the academic year be structured in such a way to give students, lecturers and researchers a bit more breathing space? To find out, Leiden Universi...
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Lifelong Learning and Development: University launches Academy for Professionals project 01 December 2022The Academy for Professionals project started in November. The project will focus on further developing existing and new educational programmes for pr...
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Opening of the Academic Year: ‘Our university world knows no borders’ 05 September 2022The theme of the opening of this year’s academic year was peace and justice. With the climate crisis and the war in Ukraine, these are turbulent times...
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Ethics and student research: 'Students have the same questions as researchers' 01 June 2022When do you submit a thesis proposal to the Ethics Committee? And how do you ensure that students save their data properly? On 9 June, thesis supervis...
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LDE minor focuses on resources needed for energy transition 15 March 2022European dependence on Russian gas, earthquake damage in Groningen and the changing climate: the call for an energy transition is getting louder. This...
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Opening of the Academic Year: ‘Take care of each other’ 06 September 2021After a turbulent Covid year, the well-being of our students and staff has the highest priority. How can we prevent physical and mental health problem...
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Master’s students create Graduate Journal: ‘It represents the development we’ve achieved’ 28 June 2021A celebration was held in the Tabú restaurant: Mark Rutgers, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, was presented with the first copy of LEAP, a journal w...
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Leiden University takes 18th place in SustainaBul sustainability ranking 03 June 2021Leiden University has taken 18th place in the SustainaBul, the sustainability ranking of universities and universities of applied sciences in the Neth...
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Inquiry-based learning: smart tools help lecturers adapt their courses 23 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 ...
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Students meet each other from a distance 20 November 2020For a lot of students, the covid crisis means that a sense of community is hard to find during their studies. Lettie Dorst, university lecturer of tra...
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Twenty lecturers awarded Senior Teaching Qualification 12 December 2019It was time for a celebration in the Faculty Club on 11 December. Twenty driven lecturers were awarded their Senior Teaching Qualification by Vice-Rec...
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Thijs Porck wins LUS Teaching Prize 2019 02 September 2019Lecturer in Old and Middle English Thijs Porck was awarded the annual Leiden University Student Platform (LUS) Teaching Prize at the opening of the ac...
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POPcorner: helping make the University more inclusive 07 June 2019One of the ambitions of the Learning@LeidenUniversity vision on teaching and learning is to foster an international and inclusive educational communit...
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Something else than writing an essay: Ruben made a documentary for an assignment 27 May 2019Ruben van Gaalen used a very unique approach for a course of the research master Colonial and Global History: instead of writing an essay, he went to ...