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| According to a recent study, almost 50 percent of UU students struggle with psychological issues, while nearly 70 percent feel emotionally exhausted and around 60 percent complain of stress and pressure to perform. What can we do to tackle this problem? DUB spoke with a student, a teacher and a university executive about it. Days later, the Student Wellbeing Taskforce unveiled a new action plan for the next few years. For a complete overview of our news and articles, visit dub.uu.nl/en.
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| How to improve students' mental health?
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| What can students, teachers and university executives do to alleviate stress and the pressure to perform among students? We talked to Thomas Bijl, Gönül Dilaver, and Nicole Mastenbroek about how best to tackle students' psychological problems. Read more
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| How UU will help you (help yourself and your friends)
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| Mental health issues should no longer be a taboo at UU. That's the main principle of the action plan launched by the Student Wellbeing Taskforce. DUB highlights four points of the programme. Read more
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| Lots of points of contact in UU's new approach to social safety
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| Where to turn to if you've been a victim of inappropriate behaviour? UU has set up a new code of conduct, with a system comprising several points of contact, despite earlier promises of a one-stop shop. Read more
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| 'We had to put the diversity survey to a halt'
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| Editorial - How come people outside the universities involved could answer the diversity survey? DUB's editor-in-chief Ries Agterberg explains the story behind this seemingly rookie mistake and reveals what is going to be done with the valid answers. Read more
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| Cambridge bar hanging by a thread
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| Is the Cambridge bar going to close its doors after 22 years of operation? Not if student Wijnand can help it. So far, he is the only person who signed up to serve on the bar's board. The other six positions are still vacant. A decision will be made today. Read more
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Italians at UU react to the new far-right government
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| Now that Giorgia Meloni has been elected Italy's new prime minister, some Italian students at UU feel even more disconnected from their country. They share their thoughts on the current political situation. Read more
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Meet the twelve people representing all UU students
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| The twelve new student members of the UU Council have had some time to settle in. But who are they and what do they stand for? DUB presented each of them with a question. Read more
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| 'I don't let what others say influence me'
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| Wicky Lekanne Depress (21) is autistic. She also has ADHD and a conversion disorder that sometimes paralyses them. That doesn’t stop them from studying Medicine. This is one of the three stories in a series about how UU students overcame obstacles. Read more
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| Blog - One of the best things about studying in Utrecht as an international student is sharing the classroom with people from all over the world, says our blogger Katrina. However, being exposed to so many different cultures can sometimes be a little overwhelming for her. Read more
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| Electricity and gas five times more expensive but students get no compensation
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| Students living in SSH buildings in the Utrecht Science Park started a petition because their electricity and gas bills are set to rise from 25 euros to 125 euros a month from January 1, 2023. Read more
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| Read the rest of the photo comic here.
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| Lecturers worry about tight schedule
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| Now that the portable building on Padualaan avenue has opened its doors, UU presumes the teaching schedule to be in order but lecturers are worried things are not going to go so smoothly. Some of them are adjusting their classes just to be safe. Read more
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| Twenty years of tutorship: from pretty intense to pretty casual
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| The tutoring programme is celebrating its twentieth anniversary. Every programme has one, which means every student has a teacher who helps them along their path. But not all tutors work the same way. Read more
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| A UU grant to attend a conference: Master's students flock to new initiative
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| This Autumn, Master’s students could apply to be reimbursed for the costs of attending a conference or seminar abroad. The demand was so high that the next round is set to take place in January. Read more
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| Blog - Professor Ruud Schotting is slowing down and getting ready to retire. Not out of his own volition: UU employees are supposed to stop working when they reach the legal retirement age. "There is no other way but to get ready for it," he writes. Read more
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| Research teams can use starter grant too
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| UU's Executive Board is giving most of the funds from the national budget for starter and encouragement grants to the faculties with the most students. In addition, new assistant professors can apply for starter grants on behalf of a team of researchers. Read more
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| Study shows the vulnerability of women working in academia on temporary contracts
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| Women working as scientists on temporary contracts are more vulnerable to unequal treatment and discrimination, new research shows. This is one of the reasons why they are more likely than men to quit academia. Read more
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| Free for all: four out of five scientific articles
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| An increasing number of publications by Dutch researchers are now available to read free of charge. Over the past five years, the percentage of articles that are open access has almost doubled: from 42 to 82 percent. Read more
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| Win tickets for the latin party ¡DALE! at TivoliVredenburg. Click here to know how.
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| New constructions alone will not solve room shortage
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| The municipalities with the largest number of students say they can’t solve the shortage of accommodation simply by building more housing. They would also like to control the influx of international students. Read more
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Load shedding: South-African universities left without power for hours each day
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| Blog - Henk van Rinsum is working as a guest researcher at Stellenbosch University, in South Africa, where they've learned to expect the power to be cut for several hours a day. Read more
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75 percent of Dutch students have data stored in US cloud
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| The data of most university students in the Netherlands are currently stored at data centres from Microsoft and Amazon, reports the Dutch newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad based on a new study. Read more
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| Dutch Parliament wants tighter controls on knowledge security
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| The Minister of Education would like all higher education students to fall under the same repayment scheme. The new rules will not apply to those already repaying their loans, which means higher interest rates now apply to their debt. Read more
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| Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn for the latest news about UU and university life. If you would like to share something with us, please feel free to send us a message. Prefer sending an e-mail? No problem. Write to dubredactie@uu.nl.
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| Read much more at www.dub.uu.nl/en. Coming up: UU's new plans to increase biodiversity on campus and a test to know just how much of a perfectionist you are as a student.
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