'Reduce the number of faculties and make them more similar', is the advice concerning the new organisational structure of the UG. Five questions about the most far-reaching plan in years. 

Reduce the number of faculties at the University of Groningen (UG) and ensure that all faculties operate more in the same way. That is the final recommendation of Arthur Mol to improve the university’s governability. 

Arts students insulted a lecturer in a study-related app group, calling her a 'bitch' and a 'whore'. Dean Thony Visser says she finds it incomprehensible that people within the faculty speak about each other in such a way. 

The UG board hopes to weather the government cuts at the start of the new academic year without forced redundancies. But that will require the help of all staff. This emerged from the latest update given to the university council by the board of directors. The board is convinced that making university processes more efficient can deliver the necessary savings, but only if everyone in the organisation feels the urgency to contribute. Concrete action plan To deal with government cutbacks, the UG launched the Main Agreement action plan (HLA) last year, aimed at identifying savings across a wide range of areas. Several working groups are still working on those tasks. […] 

The fire in the Feringa Building on 4 August caused significant damage to a laboratory and several offices. A month later, part of the lab is still unusable. 

University of Groningen president Jouke de Vries is deeply concerned about the upcoming elections on 29 October. The election battle has begun, but for politicians, higher education is not an election issue. 

From now on, Groningen cartoonist Gijs Wouda (25) will be drawing a weekly cartoon for UKrant. He already contributes to the daily newspaper Trouw and will also start at De Stentor in September. But who exactly is Gijs?