News

The years-long decline in basic skills of language, mathematics and citizenship in education must be stopped.

On May 25 2022, the first physical meeting of the research project TransB took place at Fifth in Eindhoven. During the meeting, researchers from Maastricht University (UM),  the University of Amsterdam (UvA), KWR and Bram Heijkers from Platform STAD met to discuss a toolbox for multiple value...

Already three years ago, two challenges were introduced to a certain group of households in Maastricht and in Roermond: to reduce indoor temperature to a maximum of 18 °C (‘heating challenge’) and half the number of weekly laundry cycles relative to a baseline (‘laundry challenge’). In this article...

Hbo-afgestudeerden doen het in de regel nog steeds goed op de arbeidsmarkt. Dat blijkt uit de jaarlijkse HBO-Monitor van het Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA) van de Universiteit Maastricht.

SBE researchers Kimberley van der Heijden, Anouk Festjens, Caroline Goukens and NYU researcher Tom Meyvis recently published their findings on how individuals experiencing financial pressure make decisions. These findings challenge the traditional research notion that less wealthy people pick short...

Due to the teacher shortage, there are more and more opportunities to obtain a teaching certificate more quickly. What does this do to the quality of education?

Recruitment agencies make millions from new charitable donors and there is no supervision

Researchers at UNU-MERIT, the Maastricht Sustainability Institute and the Department of Chemical Engineering of Maastricht University have obtained a 1.5 million euro grant to contribute to an EU-funded project on plastic packaging recycling.  The EU is allocating a total budget of 9.6 million euros...

The newspapers are full of it, the skill gap. We have been trained for years, but the things that really make you better in your profession and are now useful, such as digital skills, were often not included.