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| A recent survey conducted by a UCU lecturer revealed that students are more prone to include their own opinions in exam answers or essays. DUB then wondered: are there any other ways the language of social media is appearing in students' academic work? We asked the DUB panel to find it out. We also spoke with students who invest money — some of them even take up student loans to do so. Finally, we held the second dialogue in our series looking back on the Covid-19 pandemic, asking two professors to discuss how the restrictions might affect young people's psychological development. For a complete overview of our news and articles, visit dub.uu.nl/en.
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| Are students using the language of social media in their papers? Tough question
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| To what extent does the language students use on social media influence their academic work? We posed this question to the members of the DUB panel and many found it hard to say for sure. Surprisingly, officialese seems to be more of a problem. Read more
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| UU sympathetic to calls for 'smarter' two-factor authentication
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| To a group of computer science students, the two-factor authentication system used by UU is extremely inconvenient. They started a petition calling for a more "user-friendly" 2FA model — without compromising safety, of course. Read more
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| Utrecht University wants to improve the registration of professors’ ancillary activities
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| UU registers all its professors’ ancillary activities and knows whether these jobs are paid or unpaid. However, these records are not kept in a centralised register, a situation denounced by current affairs TV show Nieuwsuur. Read more
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| What if an employee prefers to keep working from home out of fear of catching Covid?
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| Some employees are feeling forced to come to work even though they are more vulnerable to Covid-19 or care for loved ones who are vulnerable. These employees are advised to discuss the matter with their supervisor, but some council members find that answer much too simplistic. Read more
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Financial investments becoming more and more popular among students
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| Investment clubs, ETFs, cryptocurrencies... More and more students are dipping their toes into the world of investments. Some are even using part of their student loans for that purpose, which raises some ethical questions. Read more
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| Young during Covid: ‘They still have enough time to develop themselves'
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| Many students suffered psychologically because of all the restrictions. How worrisome is this for their development? Professor of Pedagogical Sciences Susan Branje engages in dialogue with Associate Professor of Public Administration Margo Trappenburg. Read more
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| The crux of academic pressure for young people
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| Blog - Hannah delves into the different shapes academic pressure can take, from the insistence to choose a degree soon to the expectation to offer employers more than "just" a diploma. "It feels as though you hop from one moment of heat and questioning straight into another". Read more
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| One in five students sometimes feels discriminated, abused or bullied
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| Bullying, discrimination, blackmail, sexual harassment: 20 percent of higher education students in the Netherlands have been victims of this type of behaviour, according to the Dutch National Student Association (ISO). Read more
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| How about winning tickets to see Luwten at TivoliVredenburg on Sunday, April 17? DUB is giving away two pairs of tickets for an evening full of electronic pop. Details here.
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| 'There are two ways the Netherlands can stimulate interdisciplinary research'
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| The word "interdisciplinarity" has been thrown around a lot these days, but one must be careful when using it, according to Eppo Bruins, the new chairperson of the Advisory Board for Science (AWTI). Read more
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| Students study less for an exam if they can resit it, study shows
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| Students spend less time preparing for an exam if the university offers them an opportunity to take it a second time. But there are ways to reduce this "perverse incentive", research shows. Read more
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| UU's resit policy is in need of reform
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| Opinion - Law student Hugo Wagenmakers thinks UU should give every student the possibility to resit an exam, including those with a low grade, illness or who have been absent repeatedly. He thinks the current rules are too strict, which leads many to graduate later than expected. Read more
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| UU gets seven more Veni grants
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| This took a long time coming, but the Dutch Research Council (NWO) has finally announced the results: another 78 promising young researchers will be receiving a Veni grant of up to 280,000 euros. UU is well-positioned in the ranking of universities with the most NWO grants. Read more
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| Opinion - The fact that most of the measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus have been lifted does not mean that the Covid-19 era has come to an end at the university, notes Associate Professor Jaap Bos. Students cheat more and the community spirit is sorely lacking. Read more
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| UU's Women's Network discontinued for lack of engagement
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| The network was silently discontinued last year. In its place, many diversity networks focusing on origin, gender, and disability have been set up. But Professor Belle Derks and the Dutch Network of Women Professors do not agree. Read more
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| From now on, mail and packages to go through new warehouse in Kanaleneiland
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| The mailroom and central goods delivery point are moving from the Kruyt building to Winthontlaan Avenue, from where UU buildings will be supplied. The change should reduce freight traffic and air pollution in the USP. Read more
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| UU’s thermostat may be turned down
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| UU is going to examine whether the heating in its buildings could be turned down one or two degrees Celsius. Currently, the thermostat is set at 21 degrees. This is a response to the government's "Turn the Knob" campaign, which encourages people and institutions to save energy. Read more
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| Horses removed from field contaminated with PFAS
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| A municipal report about PFAS pollution in the field on Münsterlaan Avenue advised UU to stop keeping animals in the meadow. In October, the horses were removed. Earlier, UU stated that humans and animals were not at risk. Read more
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| UU's Administration Office disappears, there will be no redundancies
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| The Executive Board would like to be able to make decisions more readily, which is why the University Administration Office (UAO) is going to be dissolved in July. All boards of directors of the UAO will fall directly under the Board. Read more
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| Universities seeing impact of pandemic on students
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| Dutch universities are seeing the repercussions the pandemic has for their students. Some are dropping out in the latter stages of their programmes while others are struggling to focus or would rather not come to campus. Read more
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| Ukrainian researchers: ‘We don't want to abandon our students'
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| Independent magazine Vox, from Radboud University, spoke with three Ukrainian researchers who are still in the country. Even though they fear for their universities, they keep on working. Read more
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| Dutch government announces additional emergency funding for Ukrainian students
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| The Dutch Cabinet has allocated another 2.5 million euros in emergency funding for students hit by the war in Ukraine. 2.3 million euros will go to higher education institutions and the rest will go to secondary vocational education. Read more
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| Triton men collide and miss their chance of winning Varsity
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| Both the men and the women of the Amsterdam-based team Nereus are the undisputed victors of the Varsity rowing competition. During the men's finale, Triton and Skøll hit each other, taking away all their hopes for a victory. Read more
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| UK enrolments in the Netherlands drop post-Brexit
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| Dutch higher education continues to welcome more and more international students. However, the number of enrolments from the UK fell by a quarter this academic year, thanks to Brexit. Read more
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| Read much more at www.dub.uu.nl/en. Coming up: the results of our "Most Average international UU student" survey. Did you know that most of them are not that into alcohol and prefer consuming weed on the regular? Also: a photo series on all the things students are free to do now that restrictions have been lifted.
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