It was time for a celebration in the Faculty Club on 11 December. Twenty driven lecturers were awarded their Senior Teaching Qualification by Vice-Rec...

The Netherlands is an open country and should remain so. This is what the rectores magnifici of the Dutch universities write in an opinion piece. Beca...

Across Thailand, Indonesia and Sri Lanka there is an urgent need to develop appropriate educational programs to build skills in data science and artif...

On 5 December 2019, Judge Christine van den Wyngaert gave a guest lecture at LUC : ‘International criminal justice; A view from the Bench’.

Are you a young scientist studying or working in science and technology, medicine or social sciences? And can you give a rousing three-minute speech a...

Not all students who are thinking of doing a master’s programme at Leiden University can come to the Master’s Open Day. Hence the first Webinar Week, ...

For the first time, Leiden University has made it to the top 10 of the UI Green Metric, a global sustainability ranking for universities. Of the 780 p...

The American president Trump is considering military intervention in Mexico to get rid of the drug cartels once and for all, but Mexico is not interes...

So called 'jihad municipalities' are being more closely monitored as a result of the arrests on 25 November 2019 of two terrorist suspects from Zoeter...

Kohei Suzuki, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Public Administration recently received a large research project grant from the Swedish Research...

For the first time ever, more women than men have been awarded PhDs at Leiden University. In 2019, 226 women defended their dissertations as opposed t...

Many years ago, Winston Churchill said; ‘Jaw to jaw is better than war’. Therefore the quality of the jaw to jaw and diplomacy is important. Unfortuna...

Each week, Dutch radio programme BNR Lobbypanel discusses a topic at the intersection of politics and entrepreneurship. From 2020 Arco Timmermans, Pro...

More has to be done to create a safe work environment for the staff of Leiden University. Confidential counsellors for PhD candidates were recently ap...

The Golden Rules for PhD Supervision were recently posted on the website. Most of the problems that PhD candidates experience stem from difficulties i...