SURF is looking for academic guinea pigs: help test a Microsoft alternative
Wanted: two thousand lecturers, researchers and other staff willing to try out Nextcloud for a year, a serious European alternative to Microsoft. 
The UG has to cut a further 45 million euros over the coming years
The UG has to save 45 million euros between 2026 and 2030. This comes on top of the cuts that have already been made or are currently being implemented.
Higher education hopes new strike will put pressure on coalition talks
Higher education staff will strike again on 9 December in protest against the budget cuts. Organisations including WOinActie, student unions, FNV and education union AOb hope this will help put pressure on the coalition negotiations.
Philosophy students protest against merger plan: ‘Celebrate the small faculty’
‘Celebrate the small faculty.’ That is the message of Wednesday’s protest outside the Academy building against the UG’s plans to merge small faculties with large ones.
Court sentences former student to 12 months in prison and psychiatric treatment
The court in Groningen has sentenced former student Marwa M. to twelve months’ imprisonment and TBS (detention under a hospital order) with compulsory treatment.
Former PhD student acquitted of defamation over rape accusation
Alice, the former Chinese PhD student who told UKrant in January 2023 that she had been raped by a visiting researcher at the University of Groningen, was acquitted of defamation on Wednesday.
UG maintains cum laude distinction; sometimes women are in the majority
The University of Twente decided last week to abolish the cum laude distinction for PhD candidates, because male candidates were awarded it disproportionately often. Will the UG follow this example? Five questions for Johan Woltjer of the Graduate Schools Groningen.