According to the 'Keuzegids Universiteiten 2024', the UG study programme global responsibility and leadership, which is taught at Campus Fryslân, is once again the best bachelor programme in the Netherlands.
To make the transition to a new life in a new city a bit smoother, UKrant‘s student editors give their top tips over the next three weeks. Today: don't push your deadline in the UB.
Perhaps Groningen rector magnificus Johannes Kapteyn was just a little naive. Or perhaps he was fully aware of what he was doing when he betrayed Jewish philosopher Leo Polak to the Germans.
A lot has changed at the UG in four hundred years, but many things have stayed surprisingly the same. This week, part 13 in our series: The old-fashioned allegorical mural in the Auditorium was painted over and replaced with a Tree of Knowledge.
A lot has changed at the UG in four hundred years, but many things have stayed surprisingly the same. This week, part 12 in our series: People can now get a beer in what used to be the beadle’s living room.
A lot has changed at the UG in four hundred years, but many things have stayed surprisingly the same. This week, part 11: How time caught up to the energy of the future.
A lot has changed at the UG in four hundred years, but many things have stayed surprisingly the same. This week, part 10: How a world-class psychology lab became a bathroom.
A lot has changed at the UG in four hundred years, but many things have stayed surprisingly the same. This week, part 9: how an ironless, hypermodern physics lab came to house the Noorderpoortcollege.
A group of academics wants to breathe new life into the Centre for University History and Science Studies (Centrum voor Universiteitsgeschiedenis en Wetenschapsstudies, or CUW). The centre was slowly sinking into oblivion after university historian Klaas van Berkel had retired.Â
A lot has changed at the UG in four hundred years, but many things have stayed surprisingly the same. This week, part 8: patients in class and anatomy lessons for medical students.
A lot has changed at the UG in four hundred years, but many things have stayed surprisingly the same. This week, part 7: that ugly car park behind the Academy building used to be where the astronomy lab was.
A lot has changed at the UG in four hundred years, but many things have stayed surprisingly the same. This week, part 5 in our series: The ACLO, from fitness to Olympic gold.
A lot has changed at the UG in the past four hundred years. But some things have stayed remarkably the same. This week: the enclosed garden at the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, which started out as pharmacist Henricus Munting's hortus botanicus.
It’s only been a few years since the UG embraced China. But ever since ‘Yantai’ was shot down, every effort has been made to painstakingly avoid a connection with the country, master student Daan Kingma has noticed. He thinks this is the wrong strategy.
Diversity employees at universities of applied sciences and research universities want to break down barriers caused by factors such as skin colour or gender. But almost all of them have to deal with negative reactions or harassment. Some have even been threatened.
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’ is an irregular column in which we occasionally we take a look behind the scenes.
