First-year international students act as group leaders during Welcome Week (2024)

The academic year 2022-2023 has officially started. The introduction weeks are over and the opening ceremony took place in the Dom church. Time to get to work! For students, this means doing their best to get to class despite the public transport strikes, while for the university itself, it means doing more to prevent inappropriate behaviours and guarantee a safe environment for all. That's according to Professor Naomi Ellemers, who was the keynote speaker at the opening ceremony.For a complete overview of our news and articles, visit dub.uu.nl/en.

First-year international students acted as group leaders during Welcome Week

A creative solution was found to the lack of senior students volunteering at the Welcome Week for international students. Incoming students could volunteer to be “group leaders” themselves.Read more

New Academic Year: UU should get to work to make students and employees feel safe

The celebration of the new academic year was held on September 5. Speeches stressed the importance of a safe learning and working environment, free of harassment, bullying and inappropriate behaviours. The winners of the Student Awards were also announced.Read more

Strike causes students to run late or not come to class at all

This Wednesday, September 7, there are no trams and fewer buses available to the Utrecht Science Park. Students who cannot come to class because of the strike are not going to suffer any penalties.Read more

‘Disposable teacher’ loses court case against Utrecht University

Lecturer Marijn Scholte lost his lawsuit against Utrecht University and will therefore not get his job back. The court finds that he ought to have sounded the alarm earlier.Read more

‘A war between feminism and the LBGTQ+ movements plays into the hands of the Right’

Rosi Braidotti, the founder of the Gender Studies programme at UU, is retiring from the university. DUB talked to her about her career and the challenges ahead for the feminist movement.Read more

New Vagant opens its doors

The wait is over. After more than four years, students at the Utrecht Science Park finally have their "living room" back. With space to hang out and organise social activities, the place aims to be a meeting point for students of all programmes.Read more

Back to school and fear

Blog -Graduating with her Bachelor's feels strange for Berta. Since she spent more than half of the time in another country due to the pandemic, she's feeling like an impostor and wishes she had enjoyed Utrecht more. Maybe she will now, as a Master's student.Read more

Statutory tuition fee to increase by 105 euros in 2023

Annual tuition fees for students from the Netherlands and the European Economic Area, also known as statutory fees, are set to increase by 105 euros to 2,314 euros next year. Read more

'Not exploring the opportunities that we have seems like a crime’

Blog - As a student in the 21st century, have you ever felt like you have a duty to travel? Our new blogger, Katrina, from Latvia, has. That feeling led her to study in the US and now in the Netherlands.Read more

Unique Master’s programme uses art to offer a different perspective on healthcare

Medical Humanities is the first Master's offered jointly by the faculties of Humanities and Medicine. It approaches healthcare from the perspective of the arts, History, Ethics, and Communication.Read more

The higher up the ladder, the more overtime

Opening the laptop in the evening or at weekends is commonplace for those working in higher education and research. The higher up they are, the more overtime they tend to do, according to the Rathenau Institute in its latest report. Read more

National student union devises ten tips to make classes more inclusive

As a new academic year starts, the National Student Union sent out ten tips aimed at helping teaching staff make their classrooms more inclusive. Just saying that everyone is welcome doesn't cut it, they say.Read more

DUB is going to unveil a new design on Friday, September 9. An upgrade was overdue to better display all our articles, videos, podcasts, blogs and op-eds. The new layout is also going to be more picture-based for a more modern look. Curious about what else is going to change? Click here.

University of Amsterdam wants to have fewer foreign students

UvA wants to "experiment" with a quota for international students next year, according to the Dutch newspaper NRC. They think Dutch students would be “ousted” from popular study programmes otherwise.Read more

'Suddenly the media were on my doorstep’

Niels Drost was one of the nominees for this year's Best Master's Thesis Award. He studied how Putin's rhetoric uses Russian History, especially that of the tsars, to serve his political agenda. Although Drost lost the award, he's given interviews to many media outlets.Read more

Some students more likely to get a public transport fine than others

Travellers will soon be able to check in using their debit cards or mobile phones but the OV chipkaart will remain valid for a while. This means that some students will run more risk of being fined than others.Read more

Universities of applied sciences suspect they're being used for migrant smuggling

The institutions have been seeing students from outside the EU suddenly disappear from sight. They suspect these students are only interested in getting a visa to enter the country, but they have no intention to study.Read more

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Read much more at www.dub.uu.nl/en. Coming up: how first-year international students reacted to UU's e-mail telling them to reconsider coming to Utrecht if they didn't have a room; How to avoid being scammed when looking for a room.