UG students with complaints too often hit a brick wall, says Education Inspectorate
Legal protection for students at the University of Groningen is insufficiently safeguarded. It is not certain that a student with a complaint will end up in the right place, concludes the Dutch Education Inspectorate. 
Lower House: Reduce workload by inspecting degree programmes less frequently
To ease the workload in education, the Lower House has proposed accrediting degree programmes only once every eight to ten years. Education Minister Rianne Letschert is open to the idea.
Feeling unsafe in the University Library? Soon you can report it via chat
People who feel unsafe in the UB will soon be able to report this via a chat function. This will allow them to ask for help if they are unable or unwilling to speak out loud.
Lijst Calimero fears competition over limited number of board months
Are the board months allocated to associations still distributed fairly? Or are associations quietly having to do more and more work to receive a ‘month’? Lijst Calimero fears that the latter is the case.
Unions: 6 percent pay rise and ‘fixed amounts instead of percentages’
Trade unions AOb and FNV want salaries at universities to increase by 6 percent and, in future, to rise automatically in line with inflation.
Jouke de Vries on the need for a merger: ‘We increasingly have to take the collective into account’
The UG's board of directors wants to make a decision next month on the merger of faculties. The idea is: merge first, then harmonise. Opponents would prefer the reverse. But that's not possible, according to board president Jouke de Vries.
The Netherlands rakes in a lot of European research funding
The Netherlands is the frontrunner within the EU when it comes to securing research grants. Nearly 18 percent of applications from the Netherlands are successful.