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At some schools, students are more likely to repeat a grade than at others. This isn’t just about how a student performs, but also about the school itself. That’s according to new research from Maastricht University and Hasselt University.

Ambassador Lecture Series with François Alabrune, Ambassador of France to the Kingdom of the Netherlands

A new inspiration guide shows how training helps researchers incorporate societal engagement in their careers, building on examples implemented at five different universities.

From Maastricht, Suzie Nzekui is fighting for women in her home country, Cameroon. With her feminist women's collective and Master’s in Systems Biology and Bioinformatics, she is working to improve healthcare for women.

Over the past 50 years, both education at Maastricht University and the university itself have changed enormously. To shine a spotlight on these changes, we’re speaking to an alum from the first cohort and a current student at each faculty. This time, Paula Sultanof and Paul Meiser.

Psychological distress in the Netherlands is not some abstract idea. It hits everywhere—families, schools, workplaces. Behind every graph is an individual of flesh and blood. The latest figures from the national research institutes in public health (RIVM) and mental health (Trimbos) are unequivocal.

Following our initial notice on 4 May, we would like to share the latest information we have regarding the cyberattack on Canvas. The Canvas supplier has since informed UM that the attack also affected UM’s Canvas environment.

Last weekend, the provider of the educational software Canvas reported that user data had been stolen in a global cyberattack. UM also uses the Canvas digital learning environment. It is not yet clear whether the attack resulted in the leak of UM student and staff data.

The Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), The Asssociation of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) and The Open Medical Institute (OMI) have joined forces to build a Public Health Academy.

By designing a card game, maths tutors at the Department of Advanced Computing Sciences increase their student’s engagement with linear algebra.