Cross-border cooperation in higher education

The two biggest Limburg institutions of higher education, the Katholieke Hogeschool Limburg (KHLim) from Flanders and Hogeschool Zuyd from the Netherlands, signed a cooperative agreement on April 5. This means that almost 20,000 students from these institutions will have reciprocal recognition of their qualifications in Belgium and the Netherlands. They also want to harmonize their [...]

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Through the lens: Where did I park my bicycle?

Leaving bicycles anywhere in the city centre of Maastricht except in the allotted spaces is prohibited since June 2005. [continued...]

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Meet UMBS! Upcoming events at UMBS

Upcoming events at Universiteit Maastricht Business School (UMBS):
26 April – MBA information session
This information session will provide you with detailed information about the Executive MBA, the Executive MBA in Dutch, the Modular MBA, the Maastricht Düsseldorf Part-time MBA and the Euro*MBA offered by Universiteit Maastricht Business School. The session is especially developped to [...]

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EU gives more money to European exchange students

The Erasmus grant for European exchange students will be raised from 150 to 250 euros. In addition, more students will be eligible for such a grant. On the other hand, the agreement on the European budget hardly allocates any extra money to research.
The tough negotiations on the budget of the European Union for the next [...]

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8 May: Debate on the integration of international students in Maastricht

The Maastricht Student Council (MSR) will organise a debate on May 8, 2006 on the integration on international students in Maastricht. The aim is to initiate a constructive and salutary discussion which will provide every participants with new ideas and insides.
Prof. mr. G.P.M.F. Mols, the Rector Magnificus of the University of Maastricht, will chair [...]

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New courses at UMBS!

New courses at UMBS
11 September – Start New Module with MBA Qualification
On Monday 11 September 2006 a six-day module with MBA qualification will start. This module covers the following subjects: Macro Economics and Business, Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability and Corporate Governance.
It is possible to apply for this separate module or as part of the [...]

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Cross-border partnership MSM/CBS

The Maastricht School of Management (MSM) and the Cologne Business School (CBS) have settled a new cross-border cooperation. The jointly developed MSM/CBS Executive MBA in International Business will start in October 2006.
The two-year part-time program, an initiative of Professor Dr. Ronald S.J. Tuninga, Director Dean of MSM, and Dr. Aad van Mourik, Professor of Economics/Dean [...]

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‘Islamic terrorism’ phrase to be banned from EU lexicon

The EU is working on a public communication lexicon which blacklists the term “Islamic terrorism.”
The “non-emotive lexicon for discussing radicalisation” should be submitted to EU leaders who will meet in June, according to press reports.
EU officials drafting the guidelines hope that the European Commission and the European Parliament will also endorse the linguistic [...]

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65 percent of Dutch say contact with foreigners poor

According to a survey commissioned by Radio Netherlands, 70 percent of the Dutch population wants more contact with citizens of foreign descent. However, 65 percent of those questioned believe that relations between native Dutch and people of foreign origin are poor.
This tallies with a survey conducted among expatriates which found that more than three-quarters are [...]

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8 May: Schuman Lecture: An unfinished adventure called Europe

The Schuman lecture is named after the French minister of Foreign Affairs Robert Schuman (1886-1963), one of the founding fathers of what is now called the European Union. The lecture is organised by the City of Maastricht and Maastricht University, in commemoration of the Maastricht Treaty.
The next Schuman lecture will take place on [...]

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62% Ph D student drop out rate at Flemish universities

More than 6 out of 10 Ph D students fail to complete their research. This was published by the Flemish daily, De Morgen, after a study commissioned by the Flemish Science Council and carried out by the Dutch University of Leiden.
The research grouped Ph D student details from five Flemish Universities between 1991 and [...]

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Brussels bans the car

Starting in June cars will be banned from the centre of the Belgian capital. The City of Brussels is introducing a car free zone at the heart of the capital.
Streets surrounding Brussels’ historic market square will only be accessible to pedestrians.
The city authorities are also taking other measures to discourage motorists from heading into [...]

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Advice: billion extra for research at universities

Research at Dutch universities needs a billion euros per year extra to reach the top level in Europe. The universities themselves will need 500 million euros more eventually, and the other 500 million should go to research financing organisation NWO, the Dynamisation Committee recommends.
Compared with neighbouring countries, the Netherlands invests far too little money in [...]

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International Court of Justice is 60

The International Court of Justice in The Hague is celebrating its 60th anniversary. The occasion is being marked with a ceremony in the Peace Palace attended by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. After 60 years, the International Court is still active and playing a vital role in [...]

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Maastricht law four-time winner of the European Law Moot Court Competition

On Friday 31 March, a student team from the UM Faculty of Law won the finals of the European Law Moot Court Competition, which took place in the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. Their opponents in the final round were teams from the universities of Cologne, Leuven and Zagreb. All four universities reached the [...]

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Students body urges extending Master Courses

The Dutch National Students Association (ISO) feels Master degree programmes should be made longer. The training now covers one year, making it difficult for Dutch people to find jobs abroad.
Master programmes involve extending training by means of work practise, research and writing a thesis. Dutch people only have one year to do this, while other [...]

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Government advisors: embrace Islam, tackle allies

An unjustified fear of and aversion to Islam exists in the Netherlands. Instead of continuing to drag the name of that faith through the mud, there should be far more criticism of friendly countries such as the US, Israel and Russia, the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) concludes.
WRR researcher Jan Schoonenboom is worried about [...]

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Anne Frank’s childhood letters

Anne Frank is known the world over as the writer of her Second World War diaries, but some 20 letters and cards she wrote to family and friends both before and during the war reveal new facts about Anne’s life in the Netherlands and are now the subject of an exhibition at Amsterdam’s Historical Museum. [...]

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Finnish Cultural Institute for Benelux reopens in Brussels

The Finnish Cultural Institute for Benelux has reopened for the public in new facilities in the heart of Brussels. The institute was founded in Antwerp in 1993.
The institute’s purpose is to promote cultural, educational and academic cooperation between Finland and Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. It holds exhibitions, organises concerts, shows Finnish films, organises discussion [...]

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Teletorment

There is a new reality TV programme from Jon de Mol, the Dutch originator of Big Brother franchise. It is called “The Golden Cage”, and the idea is as simple as it is brutal: lock up a group of people in a mansion worth a million euros, and the last person left after everybody else [...]

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Misunderstanding causes bomb alert

It has emerged that a bomb alert on an Iberia flight from Amsterdam to Madrid last week was caused by a simple misunderstanding. A purchaser for a Spanish road construction company, who had visited a trade fair in Amsterdam, was discussing the purchase of a high-pressure pump with one of his colleagues.
In Spanish the word [...]

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Dutch author Gerard Reve dies

Dutch author Gerard Reve has died after a prolonged illness at 82. Suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, Reve spent the last two years in a Belgian nursing home.
In recent weeks, his condition reportedly deteriorated fast; he took almost no food and went into a coma for a while last week. No date has yet been set [...]

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UM research: Drinking more water does no harm in elderly men

Increasing fluid intake by about a liter per day appears to have no negative effects in healthy older men, Dutch researchers report.
Dr. Mark G. Spigt of Maastricht University and colleagues note in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society that older people are often dehydrated, partly because their sensation of thirst may be blunted. On [...]

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US slams Europe on Muslim integration

The failure to integrate Muslim minorities in Europe constitutes a security risk for the US, the US state department’s undersecretary for European affairs Daniel Fried told a US senate committee.
Mr Fried said unemployment, discrimination and lack of integration among Europe’s Muslim communities had created an “audience” open to extremist messages, according to Reuters.
He added [...]

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Europeans rush to register .eu domain names

Hundreds of thousands of Europeans rushed to sign up for .eu Internet domain suffixes on Friday, the first day for registrations by individuals, the European Commission said.
“The demand of European citizens and companies will show whether they believe in Europe,” Commissioner for Information and Society Viviane Reding told reporters.
In addition to the .eu domain, each [...]

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Integration course for Dutch immigrants in Belgian Limburg

Dutch immigrants in the Belgian province of Limburg will soon be able to take an integration course. The course is compulsory for non-EU newcomers, but not for Dutch immigrants.
About 5,000 Dutch nationals immigrated to Belgian Limburg last year.
The integration course is also meant to help newcomers get acquainted with the many different regulations between [...]

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Dutch universities scout for Indian students

For Indian students looking for a hassle-free education abroad, Holland could, perhaps, be the best bet.
Admission to Dutch universities is much easier than to institutions in the United States, the United Kingdom or Australia. The institutions themselves process the visa requirements of students.
Representatives of six Dutch universities — all of them members of [...]

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EU study: big differences in web use among member nations

A European Union report released Thursday showed big differences in the level of Internet use among EU nations, with Benelux and Nordic countries leading the way and eastern and southeastern Europe generally lagging behind.
In the Netherlands, 78 percent of households are connected to the Net, compared to just 16 percent in Lithuania, according to the [...]

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Propagating art and more than tulips

Botanical paintings made for art’s sake are a fairly recent phenomenon. “The earliest flower drawings were for the most part made to assist the searcher after medicinal herbs,” Wilfrid Blunt and William T. Stearn write in “The Art of Botanical Illustration.” “Realism was desired and soon to a surprising degree achieved.”
The Leiden Botanical Garden [...]

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UM Board president Ritzen fears decline in foreign students

If it is up to state secretary Rutte, European students will no longer be reimbursed 70 per cent of their lecture fees from 2007.
Maastricht Executive Board president Jo Ritzen and his colleagues from Groningen, Twente, Nijmegen and Tilburg, fear that the Netherlands - and therefore also Maastricht - with its large number of foreign [...]

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