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‘We need to keep teacher development on the agenda’ 04 November 2024Good education starts with good educators. The university has taken various steps in recent years to help our teaching staff develop. But new teaching...
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NWO grant for the Facebook of the past: ‘Circulating images aren’t new’ 04 November 2024GIFs, memes and videos: anyone who opens a social media platform can be in no doubt that today we live in a visual culture. But the role of images in ...
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From Underground to Overground, from Print to Digital: A Symposium on Unofficial Poetry from China 31 October 2024Leiden University Libraries holds an internationally unique collection of unofficial poetry from China. Produced outside the System over the last fift...
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New research to get young people back into reading for pleasure 30 October 2024Young people are more likely to find long texts unappealing to read, particularly with all the digital distractions. To improve young people’s reading...
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‘It doesn’t feel like work’: what it’s like to be a mentor for Pre-University College 29 October 2024Guiding high school students as a mentor at Pre-University College: what is that like? And what does it all entail? As part of the 20th anniversary of...
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Update Executive Board: Dark clouds over the humanities 29 October 2024The Schoof cabinet has presented its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regul...
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Student and entrepreneur: ‘PLNT The Hague is the place to find like-minded people’ 28 October 2024Taking a Bachelor’s in Security Studies while starting and running two businesses: student Mohamed Sulaiman never stops. But he wouldn’t have it any o...
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Once more Erasmus grants awarded for international cooperation 28 October 2024This year, eleven exchange projects from Leiden University received an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility education grant. The total award of almo...
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Sustainability Monitor 2023: Leiden University substantially reduces carbon emissions 28 October 2024The Sustainability Monitor 2023 shows that Leiden University is taking its sustainability efforts seriously. It is working on a greener campus and to ...
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Sara Polak: 'I want to know if what social media is doing to the political game in the US is unique' 28 October 2024Political games have existed throughout history, but what is the role of 'play' in the way the American political world has developed? University lect...
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Back to the Future: What vision of the future did people have during perestroika? 24 October 2024In many Central and Eastern European countries, a period of greater openness emerged in the late 1980s. How did this affect the future perspective of ...
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Oncode Accelerator funds preclinical development of cancer therapies 23 October 2024Through its Demonstrator Projects, the Dutch Oncode Accelerator consortium provides grants for preclinical cancer therapy development. The first call ...
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Update Executive Board: Working groups looking at measures to absorb cuts 23 October 2024
The Schoof cabinet has presented its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regul...
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Eleven Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants 22 October 2024The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 11 Leiden researchers. This grant of up to 850,000 euros will enable them to develop an in...
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Update Executive Board: 'The Balanced Internationalisation Bill even stricter than we had feared' 22 October 2024
The Schoof cabinet has presented its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regul...