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| UU is slowly going back to life, now that universities have been given green light to offer classes on campus again. Face mask rules were confusing at first, then pretty strict, and now students are allowed to take them off in the lecture halls again. But what if there is another lockdown in the future? For professor Harold van Rijen, it's about time the university adopts a long-term Covid strategy. In this newsletter, you'll also meet a UUer who is leaving academia because of ableism and another one putting the new Recognition & Rewards system into question. For a complete overview of our news and articles, visit dub.uu.nl/en.
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| 'What if it doesn't go away? UU education must become Covid-proof'
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| Higher education should take steps in order to no longer be paralysed by the ongoing threat of lockdowns, argue UU professors Berent Prakken and Harold van Rijen. They think a new set-up for the academic year is in order. Read more
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| ‘Being a disabled employee at the university is like dying from a thousand papercuts’
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| Working at UU as a disabled employee comes with its fair share of challenges. That’s why PhD candidate Maranke Wieringa helped founding the platform Accessible Academia. “This space is not made for people like me". Read more
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| Over half a million euros invested to make buildings more accessible in the city centre
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| Utrecht University will allocate 1.6 million euros to improve make its buildings in the city centre more accessible for students and employees with a disability. The University Library in particular is going to need a lot of work. Read more
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| New Covid rules regarding face masks and quarantine in higher education
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| New rules concerning face masks: you may take it off inside the lecture hall, provided that you're sitting at least 1.5 metres (6 feet) away from others. The quarantine rules have also changed for those aged 18 and under. Apart from that, nothing else has changed. Read more
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Night owls: staying until late at the library when motivation is lacking
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| The library is open until 1.00 am this month because of the exam period. Most students prefer their bed at this time, but some do take advantage of the extended hours. DUB visited the library late at night to meet these night owls. Read more
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| Face mask on or off? Students find social factors more important than the rules
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| Little by little, the Utrecht Science Park is going back to life. Before the latest coronavirus press conference, students were expected to wear a face mask at all times, even in the lecture hall. But DUB found out that many of them only wore a mask if others explicitly asked them to. Read more
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| 'What I missed the most? I cannot choose between playing and drinking'
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| Video - Students who practice sports had to wait a long time to be allowed to play again, but since January 15, they're able to practice sports and, since January 26, they can also gather for some drinks afterwards. A golden combination. Read more
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| Dutch Prime Minister: billion for unlucky generation of students is a 'concession'
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| Prime Minister Mark Rutte stated that the billion euros the government is planning to distribute among the students who missed out on the basic student grant must not be regarded as a compensation, but rather as a "concession". Read more
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| Hans Clevers warns of “disastrous” consequences of new Recognition & Rewards
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| It will not be possible to maintain the scientific performance of the Netherlands if scientists' output is no longer measured, declares UU Professor Hans Clever, stem cell researcher and former director of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Read more
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| UU professor under fire after decision from Vrije Universiteit about China
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| VU Amsterdam decided to give back the Chinese subsidy its Cross Cultural Human Rights Centre had received, after the independence of the research was put into question. UU professor Tom Zwart is the director of the centre. Read more
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| High skills were required to deliver CT scanner to earth scientists
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| On January 24, the Tectonic Modelling Laboratory finally received a medical CT scanner similar to the ones used in hospitals to allow scientists to accurately show fractures in geological scale models and thus better study the formation of mountains and oceans. Read more
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| Who will be the Teacher of the Year? Here are the nominees
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| Six UU lecturers have a chance of winning one of the two Teacher awards in 2022. There are three candidates running for the Teacher of the Year award and three nominees for the Teaching talent of the Year category. Read more
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| UU students entitled to two resits in case of illness or quarantine
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| Students who are unable to take an exam because they are ill or quarantined can keep their right to two resits, which means they always have a chance to retake the exam in question. UU has implemented this relaxation university-wide. Read more
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| University lowers norm for binding study advice once again
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| Like last year, one less subject is being required of first-year students to be allowed to move on to the second year. Given the pandemic, all Dutch universities have decided to relax the norm for the binding study advice once again. Read more
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| Covid pass at universities even less likely now
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| Researchers from the universities of Delft, Utrecht, and Rotterdam reported that the effects of the Covid pass in curbing the transmission of the virus are actually limited. So, now it seems even less likely that the measure is going to be implemented by Dutch universities. Read more
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| European students from low-income families more likely to live on their own
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| University students whose parents aren't well off are more likely to choose to live on their own, which means they are more likely to have financial worries than those still living at their parents', according to a new study. Read more
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| Second UU short tracker going to the Winter Olympics
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| Law student Bram Steenaart is going to Beijing as a reserve skater for the Dutch short track team. Another short tracker, Liberal Arts and Sciences student Selma Poutsma, will be joining the winter Olympics too. Read more
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| Read much more at www.dub.uu.nl/en. Coming up: the two Master's students of Cultural Anthropology who made a website about sex and how student associations are getting loose after all the lockdown restrictions.
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