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Societal appreciation for primary and secondary school teachers has deteriorated, particularly in the last ten years.

Maastricht University is proud of the nomination of Dr. Michelle Moerel, assistant professor and researcher at the Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), for New Scientist Talent 2017.

Friday 19 May, three teams of the Health Food Innovation Management master’s programme (UM’s Campus Venlo) took first, second and third place in the preliminary round of the Ecothophelia competition: a Europe-wide competition between student teams of both universities and colleges.

A jury consisting of Nick Bos, Prof Marja van Dieijen-Visser, Prof Jan Cobbenhagen, Theo Thuis, and Gerda Baltis-Paridaen selected Bart Spronck as the recipient of the Valorisation Award 2016, handed out during the Maastricht University Dinner.

The student team representing Maastricht University has won the prestigious VAR Moot Court Competition in administrative law for the second year in a row.

Just like last year, students were generally quite positive about the Maastricht University (UM) study programmes. Fourteen of the seventeen themes showed increased appreciation compared to last year, with UM doing particularly well and scoring above average with regard to the new theme of...

Karin Bijsterveld appointed as a member of the KNAW Council for the Humanities

Therese Grohnert, PhD candidate at Maastricht University, wanted to know why audit firms sometimes form insufficiently supported judgements on their clients’ financial statements.

Prevention of dementia potentially stimulated by drawing up personal risk profile (MUMC+ news).