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• Is it too busy?

  student - 08-10-2015 Every year more people come to Wageningen to study. This year is no exception and student numbers have increased yet again. This is making the campus very busy. Is it perhaps too c...

• Is the Flex Act too rigid?

  organisation - 30-06-2016 According to the new Dutch ‘Work and Security Act’ (WWZ) – known as the Flex Act – employees must be offered a permanent contract after three temporary contracts or two years (four...

• There is no bullying here

  organisation - 21-06-2016 Nearly 1.2 million people experience bullying at work, Dutch research organization TNO claims on the basis of research. So last week Minister of Social Affairs Asscher invested hal...

• Late shift

  - 02-06-2016 While students of Wageningen University are waging war on evening lectures in good old-fashioned style – passionately and in large numbers – lecturers, PhD candidates and other em...

• Degree ceremony too large-scale?

  student - 19-05-2016 Thanks to the growing student numbers at Wageningen University, degree ceremonies can be crowded occasions. Students have to provide the information for their ‘personal word’ thems...

• Special festivities

  student - 27-04-2016 On King’s Day, 27 April the Dutch dress up in orange and sit on blankets on streets and in parks selling jumble. Just over a week later, on the 5th of May, there are big music fest...

• United under one brand?

  organisation - 07-04-2016 Wageningen University & Research is to be the new brand for all Wageningen research and education. Institute names such as Alterra, Lei and Imares will be consigned to history from...

• Fast food on campus?

  organisation - 24-03-2016 Property developer Ten Brinke recently announced definite plans for a fast food restaurant in the new student residence-cum-shopping centre Campus Plaza. He didn’t name names but j...

• Warning! Language Barrier II

  organisation - 08-03-2016 These days most Wageningen Master’s programmes are taught in English. The question is, does the average teacher have a good enough command of the language? Or do they get away with...

• Warning! Language barrier

  organisation - 25-02-2016 Wageningen University attracts students from all over the world and tries to address them in English consistently. Do we manage that? In official communications, yes, say internati...