Newsletter December 2017
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31 December 2017
Newsletter November 2017
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5 December 2017
Why we value our professors highly
By Kirsten Kapteijns In September, the Elsevier ranking was published. Overall University Colleges are performing well, but one topic deserves special attention: the high ratings of our professors, a fact that has also been acknowledged by Elsevier itself. Elsevier bases its numbers mostly on the National Student Survey (NSE, Nationale Studenten Enquete), which means that professors at the UCs score…
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12 October 2017
LAS Alumni Survey Fall 2017
In the fall of 2017, the University Colleges Deans’ Network commissioned a joint alumni survey of graduates of the University Colleges as well as other Liberal Arts and Sciences programs in the Netherlands. This survey aimed to discover what students did after completing their bachelor programs, including the graduate programs they attended and their current position on the labor market.…
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4 September 2017
Newsletter May 2017
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9 June 2017
Are you an ‘excellent’ student?
The second week of this semester, my supervisor said something interesting. There was a discussion on which students should be admitted to the honours programme, based on past academic record and achievement in the entrance exams. The discussion was on what makes a good honours student , and my co-worker gave his view: “An honours student is a gifted student,…
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26 March 2017
UCM hosts conference on Capitalism & Democracy
Economics? What’s economics? The term is as omnipresent as it is contested, yet a variety of scholars employ a definition which sees Economics as a science studying human behaviour under conditions of scarce resources with alternative uses to reach desired ends. This definition is, first, very abstract and, second, apolitical. Yet, students of economics usually study a capitalist system, not…
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22 March 2017
Exploratory student survey Spring 2017
Important findings in this survey include the possibility to do additional research on the number of (first year) UC students that drop out, the amount of rent UC students pay compared to regional and national averages, the number of UC students that has a side job compared to regional and national averages, positive and negative effects of ‘the bubble’ and…
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4 March 2017
Newsletter February 2017
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3 March 2017
Utrecht University Masters Evening
On Wednesday 1st of February 2017, the UCSRN collaborated with Utrecht University (UU) on their Masters Evening. We organised a special event for University College (UC) students from all over the Netherlands to come to UU and ask questions specific to University College students trying to get into a Masters program. Many questions that we see a lot were answered!…
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1 March 2017
