Specials
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The university in the ‘one-and-a-half metre society’
Early on in the corona crisis, the university set to work with proctored exams, where students can take their exams at home, but while they are filmed. Sometimes even the entire room is scanned for activity. Is proctoring a keeper? Not all higher education institutions participate in proctoring. At the…Gepubliceerd op:Special -
Students associations
Eurekaweek is usually the place to scour the student associations to see which one clicks. Now that there are no evening activities and no alcohol, it will be more difficult to choose. That’s why EM has decided to focus on the five largest associations, from large to small. RSC/RVSV In…Gepubliceerd op:Special -
Home Workers
Hans van den Berg Hans van den Berg spends his working hours in front of his desk, which is situated under an attic window. “I like working here, because I have a nice amount of light here,” he says in his vlog. “And when I open the window, I get…Gepubliceerd op:Special -
Science & corona
How do you fight a pandemic? What are the consequences of the ‘intelligent lockdown’ for the economy or the labour market? And with what philosophical tools can we look at this crisis? EUR academics reflect from their field of expertise. Psychologist Rolf Zwaan about the quantity and quality of academic…Gepubliceerd op:Special -
Erasmus TV
Every Thursday live at 9 AM. Join the watch party on Facebook or check the livestream. #41 ‘A good university should be able to offer high-quality education, both offline and online’ #40 The EUR allocates 3 million euros for a more diverse student population #39 How did…Gepubliceerd op:Special -
On the way to Tokyo 2020
Students Amber Meulenbeld, Marloes Keetels, Malou Pheninckx, Iris Wolves and Marieke Keijser will not experience the coming Olympic games from the sofa, just like we do. They have Tokyo 2020 circled in their diary and were hoping to study again after the summer with a medal in their pocket. Erasmus…Gepubliceerd op:Special -
Coronavirus
Increase in discrimination against Chinese students, mistreatment of a Tilburg student and teachers who refuse students from ‘corona area’. In this timeline you can read about the consequences of the spread of the coronavirus for Erasmus University and in higher education. The spread of the coronavirus does not make the…Gepubliceerd op:Special -
Plagiarism and investigation at the ESHCC
The merger plans between the ESHCC and the ESSB were already controversial. But shortly after interim dean Dymph van den Boom handed in her report sketching three scenarios for the future of the ESHCC, a report she was asked to make by the Executive Board to make the ESHCC more…Gepubliceerd op:Special -
The unsure future of ESHCC
2019 was – and this is carefully phrased – an exciting year for the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication (ESHCC). First, a coming merger kept everyone busy, then the internal differences after dean Van den Boom got accused of plagiarism. Next to that, there would be a culture…Gepubliceerd op:Special -
50 years after Tinbergen’s Nobel Prize
Jan Tinbergen is still one of the best-known Dutch economists. On December 10, 1969 he received the first Nobel Prize in economics. Tinbergen has been part of the (forerunner of) Erasmus University since 1933. Forty years later he retired. The Nobel Prize winner is seen as the founding father of…Gepubliceerd op:Special -
December stories 2019
How do you prevent a fight at Christmas dinner? Does theology go together with ‘earthly’ issues such as economics? What are students doing to help others? In the run-up to Christmas, EM wrote a few december stories. To get in the Christmas mood, we set off with students doing something…Gepubliceerd op:Special -
In search of Erasmus
In April 2017, IBCoM student and EM reporter Job Zomerplaag traveled around Europe, following the steps of Desiderius Erasmus. He visited twelve cities where Erasmus lived and wrote six stories. He met refugees in Turin, Front National in Paris, the spiritual mother of the international Erasmus program and many more.Gepubliceerd op:Special