The Senior Teaching Qualification is for experienced lecturers who have done more than lecturing alone. Ten quotes from the first ten lecturers to receive the STQ award.

Do you have a creative idea for improving contacts between Dutch and international students? Work out a plan and you could win the Van Bergen Prize and earn 5,000 euros to put your idea into practice.

Do you have a creative idea for improving contacts between Dutch and international students? Work out a plan and you could win the Van Bergen Prize and earn 5,000 euros to put your idea into practice. Deadline 22 October.

The future of education lies in its ability to become more flexible: students will put together their own study programme from different educational institutions. This is the vision presented by Neil Morris, Dean of Digital Learning at the University of Leeds. He is the keynote speaker at the ‘Best…

Putting our interns to work’ is the third-year slogan for the Master’s Programme in Medicine at Leiden University. After their regular residency periods, students are encouraged to find an internship in demanding sectors where they would like to work after completing their studies. In the MasterMindsChallenge,…

Until last year the Archaeology Field Techniques programme for first-year students consisted of a number of two-hour lectures. Now they spend a whole day on the programme. Assistant professor Jasper de Bruin is enthusiastic about this new approach. ‘You can do a lot more with the students, and that…

How do I conduct research? How do I structure, conduct and record what I’ve thought of and done? The Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences Programme didn’t just want students to perform a series of tests for the Cellular Biochemistry practical course. After a complete re-vamp - ‘From traditional cookbook lab…

The eight ambitions of Leiden University's vision on education - Learning@LeidenUniversity - were the key theme of the packed Education Festival on 19 June. More than 200 lecturers and students came to PLNT, Leiden's innovation hotspot, for inspiration and best practices in the field of educational…

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

Lecturer in Old and Middle English Thijs Porck was awarded the annual Leiden University Student Platform (LUS) Teaching Prize at the opening of the academic year. The jury praised his endless supply of innovative teaching ideas.

How small steps can lead to big change: that was the theme of the Leiden Education Festival. Students and lecturers came to Scheltema on 9 May to share their experiences of educational innovation.

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Higher-education institutions must be assessed and accredited once every six years to ensure they provide a high standard of education. You may be asked to speak to the assessment panel during the institutional audit.

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The University is working hard on its renewed accreditation for the Institutional Quality Assurance Assessment (IQA). A research panel from the NVAO (Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders) conducted an exploratory visit on 22 and 23 January. The panel responded positively following…

The Education festival organised by the Leiden Teachers’ Academy on 1 November offers an enormous range of choices. Everyone can choose something that is close to his or her own teaching practice. Other parts of the festival are a good opportunity to find answers to questions you may have about some…

Leiden University has published its Annual Report for 2018. Although it too has faced complex themes in the last year such as staff workload, internationalisation, social security and funding, it has made significant progress in achieving its ambitions.

Studying with an app and exploratory learning in large groups. Two educational innovations that will be possible thanks to the Comenius Programme of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Chemist Ludo Juurlink and Professor of Science Education Fred Janssen from the Leiden Graduate…

Leiden students are slightly happier with their study programmes than past year, according to the 2019 National Student Survey. The figures are still below the national average.

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Do you have a good idea for innovation or new technology in education? The Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Education and Learning is organising a challenge for start-ups in ‘EdTech’. The aim of the challenge is to stimulate innovation in academic education and to improve the education system.

As of Monday 23 March, all degree programmes and associated courses will start moving to online teaching and assessment. There will be no more face-to-face teaching during this period.This will apply to the end of period 3 and for the duration of period 4, so until the end of this academic year. We…

Teaching innovation is a focal point of the University, and its teaching innovation programme began in the first quarter of 2017. Lecturers, students and researchers work together here to improve the content and methods used in the bachelor’s and master’s programmes. The cornerstone of the programme…

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