News

Long-term insomnia sufferers are not less alert behind the wheel. At least, not behind the wheel of a real car.

The Executive Board of Maastricht University is deeply shocked by the attacks in Paris. Our thoughts go out to the French people, families and friends of the victims of these horrifying acts of violence and to our French students and employees.

Christine van Basten-Boddin will be the new mayor of Beek. It is expected that she will succeed Ralf Krewinkel in the beginning of next year.

Several former Maastricht University students have won the UNESCO-Japan Prize for Education for Sustainable Development.

Four new research projects have recently been granted to Joop de Jong. They concern the topics of cultural education in Limburg (two projects), the historical scale model of Maastricht and its surroundings around 1748, and Dutch Mobile heritage.

The Executive Board has appointed three people to fill the administrative and management vacancies at the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences.

Irshad Manji, a well-known critic of traditional mainstream Islam and described by The New York Times as "Osama bin Laden's worst nightmare", will give the Tans Lecture, titled ‘Beyond Geert Wilders: Turning Polarisation into Constructive Conflict’. The lecture will take place on 10 November.

In the Keuzegids Hoger Onderwijs 2016 seven of the seventeen UM bachelor's programmes were ranked first and twelve UM programmes were ranked in the top three (like last year) in the Keuzegids Hoger Onderwijs 2016.

The national Reference Index for High-Risk Children (Verwijsindex Risicojongeren), an ICT system introduced in 2010 to identify high-risk children at an early stage and to facilitate collaboration between various support agencies, does not work as intended nor can practicing professionals apply it...

After the recent successful outcome of the National Student Enquiry (NSE) and the Elsevier Best Study Programmes, our bachelor programmes Tax Law and European Law School are in first place in the Keuzegids Hoger Onderwijs.