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| The number of international students has risen once again at Utrecht University, making it even more difficult and stressful for students to find a room in the city. DUB asked a few international students to share their experience with us. Another hot topic in this first week of classes is the fact that everyone can go to campus now, regardless of whether they have been vaccinated. DUB also spoke with students about what they would think if teachers made vaccination a requirement to attend their classes. For a complete overview of our news and articles, visit dub.uu.nl/en.
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| International students struggle to find housing: ‘It's definitely stressful’
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| Starting their search eight months early, joining every single group on Facebook, using three different laptops to try and score an SSH room. These are just some of the tactics used by international students to find housing in the crowded Utrecht market. Read more
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| Can teachers demand students to get vaccinated?
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| Video A teacher in Twente recently wrote an op-ed saying he would prefer to only allow vaccinated students in his classroom. Others want to require students to at least get tested. Are they taking things too far? Read more
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| IND: more students from outside EU
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| A record number of students from outside Europe want to come to the Netherlands to study this year, the Dutch Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) reports. The coronavirus crisis led to a sharp drop in the number of such students last year. Read more
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| Student Award winners announced
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| Robin Verstraten is the author of this year’s best Master’s thesis. The award is remarkable, considering the Physics and Maths student had to overcome many problems for being in the autism spectrum. The award for extra-curricular activities is going to two winners for the first time ever. Read more
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| UU students feel misled for not being allowed to study in the US anymore
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| Twenty students who were going on exchange to the USA were told on September 3rd, a few days before their departure, that the trip was cancelled. The travel advice for the US changed from yellow to orange. Read more
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| Statistics Netherlands: lockdowns were hard on young people
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| We've all seen plenty of anecdotal evidence, but now Statistics Netherlands confirms that one out of every four young adults was ‘mentally unhealthy’ in the beginning of 2021. Young people felt sad, gloomy and agitated. Read more
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| Increased interest in student associations: ‘We don’t have room for everyone’
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| Hundreds of first-year students would have liked to join a student association in Utrecht, but were disappointed. Just like last year, there were so many people interested in joining the associations that some of them had to draw lots to see who could get in. Read more
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| Students occupy Groningen University to protest housing shortage
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| On Thursday, September 9, about a hundred students occupied the hall of Groningen University's Academy Building to protest the housing shortage. Another protest is planned on Sunday in Amsterdam. Read more
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| A workshop on writing poetry, the NK Poetry Slam and Exploring Stories with, among others, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Lale Gül. This is a small selection from the program of the largest literary festival in the Netherlands. DUB is giving away 3 x 2 tickets of Internationaal Literatuurfestival Utrecht! Read more
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| Covid threat doesn't hamper enthusiasm for classes in person
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| After a year and a half of online classes, September 6 marked the first day that students were able to attend classes in person again. Students and teachers were ecstatic to start the new academic year, despite the threat of Covid. Read more
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| Lecturers concerned about returning to classrooms: ‘We’re taking huge risks’
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| Many are happy about going back to campus. But the celebratory mood is far from being unanimous. DUB spoke with three lecturers who don’t understand why we're doing this, while not all students are fully vaccinated yet. Read more
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| Stricter demands to become a top professor
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| It is no longer an automatic process to reach the highest salary scale of professor. From now on, prospective professors have to indicate themselves why they deserve the promotion based on team spirit, leadership, education, research, and societal impact, among other criteria. Read more
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| Honorary doctorates go to green technology, new HIV approach and youth in conflict areas
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| Three scientists have been honoured with an honorary doctorate at the opening of Utrecht University's academic year. All three researchers investigate solutions for societal problems. Read more
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| Spinoza winner José van Dijck researches digital media. But she's not on Facebook
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| Media & Digital Society professor José van Dijck has been awarded with a Spinoza prize, the highest honour for a scientist in the Netherlands. She was completely caught by surprise with the 2.5-million euro award. Read more
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| Times Higher Education: Utrecht University third best Dutch university
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| Once again, Dutch universities have performed well on the Times Higher Education world university rankings, but they are losing ground. UU has the 69th place, which makes it the third best university in the Netherlands. Read more
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| Ig Nobel prize goes to research about pedestrian avoidance: left, right, or...?
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| Ever wondered about how pedestrians avoid each other? Scientists from TU Eindhoven won an Ig Nobel prize for their Physics approach to this question. The satiric prize goes to research that first makes you laugh, then think. Read more
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| Where is that 1.1 billion? Protest kick-starts academic year
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| The Minister of Education disappointed protesters when she refused to promise extra money for universities in her speech to mark the new academic year. UU's President was one of the voices urging the cabinet to increase funding. Read more
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| Students lift pavement stones to create more green spaces in Utrecht
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| Utrecht’s student homes are participating in the ‘National paving stone popping championship’ – a campaign that encourages people to replace (‘pop’) paving stones with plants. SSH has allocated a budget for tenants to create a small garden in front of their façade. Read more
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| Ministry "working on" issues faced by Dutch Caribbean students
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| Housing problems, financial worries, lack of support. Students from the Dutch caribbean face one too many troubles in the Netherlands. “The problems are difficult and complex”, the Dutch Minister of Education admits. Read more
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| Read much more at www.dub.uu.nl/en. Coming up: A story about UU's student assessors and an article concerning the workload at the Faculty of Humanities.
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