To ensure international staff and their partners can brush up their Dutch in the time of corona, Dual-Career Support has set up weekly online conversation meetings.
The ‘Lecturer of the Year’ election sends the wrong message, says associate professor Stephan Schleim. ‘Don’t we have more important things to do?’
Philosophy student Olivier van Eijk is the UG's in-house poet this year, and now UKrant's, too. He'll write a poem for our Instagram page every two weeks.
Students who claim the right to go to parties are dead wrong, says student Mathias Matzen. 'It might feel good in the moment, but it will only end up making everything worse.'
This week, an article in which one of our student editors explained why she did go to parties stirred up a lot of feelings. In At UKrant, we explain why we felt this was a relevant opinion to publish, even in the midst of the pandemic.
The grant budget for student organisations to promote internationalisation and inclusion will be reduced by 5000 euros this year, because of the lack of applications.
A survey from the HR department this summer showed that two thirds of UG staff are worse off than before the corona pandemic. 40 percent report that their mental state has worsened.
Over the next two years, the UG will invest 5.5 million euros in improving online education. Half of the money will be spent on 22 FTE in support staff.
A half-billion investment plan is supposed to make Campus Groningen into what might just be the biggest academic campus in the Netherlands over the next five years
