At some faculties, postdocs are required to take on teaching duties straight away; at other faculties, this isn’t always the case. If you would like to teach and you have time to do so, please contact your institute’s programme director. Leiden University also offers opportunities for you to follow…

Education that takes place online instead of on campus is called remote teaching or online education. How do you make optimal use of remote teaching?

Leiden University has more than 150 educational innovation projects on a wide range of topics, such as digitisation, curriculum reform, skills teaching, internationalisation, active learning and community building.

A University education is not only about transferring information, but also about teaching students to conduct research.

On 12 January ten driven lecturers obtained their Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO). Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl congratulated them in the Academy Building. We asked three of them how the SKO programme had benefitted them, what they think ‘good teaching’ is and what makes them so passionate about…

Do you need help creating or using online teaching methods, or are you running into difficulties? We are here to help you with your ICT- and didactic-related queries.

Webinars on remote teaching, open for all teachers and staff.

PhD, Staff

Good teaching is a skill in itself. In order to guarantee the quality of education in the Netherlands, the University Teaching Qualification (Basis Kwalificatie Onderwijs, BKO) is now compulsory for all lecturers, university lecturers (UD), senior university lecturers (UHD) and professors. What does…

Education that takes places on campus is also called on-campus teaching. How do you make optimal use of the (often limited) contact hours that you have?

Didactics

Are you a senior lecturer and do you play an active role in the university’s educational development and innovation? If so, you are eligible for the Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO). This qualification shows that you possess strong didactic and educational skills and that you contribute to the development…

We support you as much as possible with remote teaching, testing and assessing.

Leiden University’s vision on teaching and learning expresses where our emphasis lies in teaching students and which new and existing requirements we apply to our curriculum and learning environment. This vision offers a long-term perspective for developing education and marks the start of a process…

Didactics

Within all bachelor’s and master’s programmes, depending on the type of programme, attention is paid to ensuring that academic research is carried out scrupulously. For each programme, this is done in a way that is appropriate for the discipline in question.

The University Teaching Qualification (UTQ) is proof of the competence for University teaching staff. If you are a lecturer, assistant professor, associate professor and professor with an appointment of 0.5 FTE or more and have been working at the University for a year or more, you must earn the UTQ.…

During an evacuation, employees and students of the Science Faculty gather at the following assembly points:

Computer scientist Matthijs van Leeuwen is one of four science faculty members who obtained the Senior Qualification in Education in 2021. What was that like and what drives him? ‘In my own education I would have liked to see more attention paid to the responsibility that machine learning and data mining…

Law

Science Skills Platform is a versatile, digital skills learning environment for all teachers and students from the Faculty of Science. With more than 100 skills modules available, students can work on the skills they encounter during their studies whenever and wherever they want. Teachers can integrate…

Universities, companies, organisations and societies are increasingly facing enormous quantities of data. It is a great challenge to transform these Big Data into knowledge, which is why Leiden University has launched a University-wide Data Science Research Programme.

Leiden University participates in and organises a number of popular science events to help inform the public about what is going on in the world of science.

Leiden University participates in and organises a number of popular science events to help inform the public about what is going on in the world of science.

Science

During an evacuation, all employees and students gather at the front or backside of the Pieter de la Court Building.

Social and Behavioural Sciences

Covid-19 has had a huge impact on teaching at universities over the past two years. Through force of circumstances, lecturers have adapted much faster to a digital future. On 7 June Leiden Teachers Academy’s annual Education Festival (working language is English) will present insights on this ‘new n…

Science, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)

Lecture

Science, Leiden Observatory

Fifteen passionate lecturers from Leiden University were awarded the Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO) on Thursday 27 January. One of them is Frank Takes, as of 1 February Associate Professor of Computer Science. For him the SKO was a good opportunity to reflect on how he teaches.

Workshop

Education

Science, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)

Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and society. In this series of pre-retirement discussions, Stolker will talk one last time to people from within and without the University. This edition…