UG wants exchange programmes to continue where possible As far as the UG is concerned, students will still be able to go on their exchanges planned for the first semester of next academic year, in spite of the corona outbreak. Wed 3/06
Sit-in to protest racism: ‘In four years, I had only one black professor’ Hundreds of people gathered at the Grote Markt on Tuesday night for a sit-in to protest against racism. UG students helped organised the protest. Wed 3/06
App to automatically register presence in FSE buildings FSE wants to automatically register staff members’ presence in its buildings using Eduroam, using the existing app FSE Presence. Wed 3/06
Open letter to the new dean of graduate studies A group of scholarship PhD students calls on the new dean of graduate studies to solve the problems with the scholarship experiment. Wed 3/06
Lijst Calimero requests that UG lowers institutional tuition fees Lijst Calimero has asked for a rebate for students who are graduating late due to the corona crisis and would have to pay institutional tuition fees. Tue 2/06
Failed to pay your house bar tab? Go straight to jail While they were cooped up inside, Vindicat members Quinten van den Berg and Lara Winter came up with a version of Monopoly about student frats. Tue 2/06
UG board is considering dedicated student bus line The board of directors is thinking in terms of solutions: proctoring software is still an option and they might look into a dedicated student bus line to Zernike. Wed 27/05
UG researcher happy with dead pill bug UG evolutionary biologist Timo van Eldijk is really happy with a pill bug. Even though it’s dead. That’s because the isopod is 245 million years old. That’s pretty rare. Tue 26/05
International students don’t have to fly back for practicals International students who have returned to their home countries can continue their online education for the remainder of the academic year. Tue 26/05
