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Departing dean Mark Rutgers leaves faculty in crisis: ‘I had sleepless nights’
With fewer staff, fewer chairs and fewer specialists, the Faculty of Humanities will ‘plummet in all the rankings’, fears departing dean Mark Rutgers. ‘The future of academia looks bleak.’
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Honorary Doctor Bonnie Honig fights against Trump: ‘We are being governed by rapists’
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Honorary Doctor Eliot Higgins has faith in the new generation: ‘Only critical thinking can save democracy’
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‘I want to confront Afro pessimism’, says honorary doctor Kelly Chibale
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Don't let Urban Studies become the next victim of budget cuts
Now that study programmes in English are in the crosshairs, Urban Studies students are fearing for the worst. Their interdisciplinary bachelor should not dissapear, Anouk Moritz writes.
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These students broke out of their bubble and decided to learn Dutch
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Humanities overhaul: African Studies to be axed, language and Asian programmes to merge
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University Council opposed reappointment of Annetje Ottow following ‘worrying signals from the workplace’
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We need cleaner ditches (and that requires a fact-based debate)
'We cannot survive without healthy aquatic life', warn environmental scientists from Leiden. With an update of their Pesticide Atlas, they hope for 'a transparent debate based on facts'.
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Are black holes the ‘vacuum cleaners of the of the universe’? They don’t suck!
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AI in Academic Publishing: ‘We can’t just develop technology and hope it goes well’
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Wanted: female role models. ‘We need stories to tell other girls’
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‘Let us remain independent’: Chairs of at-risk Humanities programmes write counter-proposal
Bachelor’s programmes at the Faculty of Humanities that are under threat due to budget cuts propose far-reaching collaboration on the condition that they continue to exist independently. They also want to spare teaching and research as much as possible by scrapping administrative tasks and making additional cuts at the central level.
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University forced back to basics by budget cuts: ‘The prospects are very grim’
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Students are fed up with strict security measures: ‘If nothing changes, we’ll occupy again’
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Interim decision Hofman case: misconduct and integrity violations ‘sufficiently plausible’
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Hofman case: child labour allegations added to misconduct charges in court