Every week, we publish the UK newsletter. It has looked the same for years and is up for an overhaul. That is what this week's 'At the UK' is all about.
The great thing about a university is that there is room to experiment and figure things out. We can play around and find new story formats. The same goes for the UK.
Translation of the letter by the board of rectors of Dutch research universities, originally published by NRC on 16 February:
Dark clouds are gathering over...
The UK conducted a large scale survey among our readers about their (dis)satisfaction with what we publish. We are listening, of course, but we also will not allow ourselves to be led by ‘clicks’ alone.
Even though it is becoming easier to take online classes, students are on campus more than they were ten years ago, according to university association VSNU.
Universities and research institutions are calling for scientific journal articles and the data they are based on to be accessible for free over the course of the next three years.
The RUG and other European universities have called upon the United States to immediately withdraw their travel ban for people from seven majority muslim countries.
The student loan system does not appear to be keeping young people from going to university. In fact, the number of university students has never been so high.
Research universities and universities of applied sciences will put more money into student supervision. They want smaller scale education and more instructors.
A survey is all well and good. But it has to be drawn up correctly; otherwise, the results will be unreliable. For instance, the UK's own survey about Black Pete was somewhat dubious, so say Yfke Ongena and Teunis Dokter.
This is what ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ sounded like on the Academy tower’s bells. Carilloneur Auke ‘Freddie’ de Boer pulled out all the stops to perform Queen’s song on the bells.