Casper Albers will be the new dean of the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences. Albers (1975) is currently professor of applied statistics and...
Casper Albers with the personnel faction on the university council says that the RUG’s statement on zero tolerance should be more specific and defined.
Course evaluations say more about the weather than the quality of teaching, as far as statistics instructor Casper Albers is concerned. Yet they are used to determine which instructors should be given a permanent position. It’s time to stop using them.
Four UG statisticians from different faculties have established the Groningen Institute of Applied Statistics. With this 'virtual' institute, they hope to connect the expertise...
With Dutch politics increasingly negative about internationals, foreign students and staff members are starting to feel unwanted at universities in the Netherlands, a survey by UKrant shows. ‘A group in my department is in favour of going back to teaching more in Dutch, which feels like a personal attack.’
A year after Elon Musk took over Twitter, the platform has seen an increase in disinformation and name-calling, and previously banned people have had their accounts restored. Tweeting UG academics are wondering if they should stay. ‘When people started leaving X en masse, I did think to myself that it was time to go.’
Every day, the editorial staff at the UKrant wonders: What are we writing about, why are we writing about it, and how are we writing about it? ‘At UKrant’, an irregular column, we take a look behind the scenes.
University employees are furious at Ingrid van Engelshoven. She wants them to prepare forms of education with and without social distancing for September.
Money alone won’t be enough to alleviate the structural strain on the university, board president Jouke de Vries said Tuesday during WOinActie’s national Alarm Day.
The university council will hold an emergency meeting this week about Vindicat’s accreditation being revoked. The council claims the board of directors did not inform them correctly.
Feeble and disappointing: the UG’s decision to not participate in a study on scientific integrity has been strongly criticised by staff members. But some support it.
Last week, the discussion about online university education reached a nadir. But the UG board never wanted to do away with on-site education, they say.
