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.
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.
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.
The registration of the hours employees spent on the Yantai project was not done correctly. Independent investigators say the RUG board of director cannot be blamed for this. But the university council disagrees.
A majority of the University Council is still against the plans to start a branch campus in Yantai. The RUG’s Chinese expansion is in real danger of falling through.
Do we or do we not want a Yantai campus? Personnel members of the University Council are asking the entire RUG for its input, because they have to vote on the matter next month.
Are the people who represent the students and employees at the RUG sufficiently involved in the plans for a new campus in the Chinese city of Yantai? Opinions vary strongly.
Employees of the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences are fed up. They explain their objections to the current housing plans in an open letter, which is undersigned by 120 staff members.
Scholarship students at the university are not able to acquire as much teaching experience as originally thought. The RUG is making efforts to change that.
