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… Zoekresultaten 12 maart 2021 door: A. Unknown in Law M-EPLI, along with the Maastricht Law & Tech Lab and the Institute of Data Science, hosted the online webinar ‘Researching Discrimination in E-Commerce and Online Advertising’ on the 4th and 5th of March 2021. Throughout the two-day event, speakers from different countries, institutes and disciplines addressed discrimination issues present in online advertising practices. The first day saw experienced scholars weighing in on these topics, while the second day welcomed young researchers who presented their ideas. After a … visible to the user. After a discussion round and a break, the following presenter was Prof. Dr. Christo Wilson (Northeastern University, USA), who discussed algorithm auditing in the Amazon Buy Box. The Buy Box is a feature of the Amazon website which prominently features a certain seller for a specific item, and is particularly important, seeing as 80-90% of buyers purchase the product via the Buy Box. Prof. Wilson found that the Buy Box algorithm considers the lowest price and the …
… Zoekresultaten 18 november 2019 door: J.M. Smits in Rechtsgeleerdheid Afgelopen week kwam de nieuwe Times Higher Education ranking van juridische faculteiten uit. Onze faculteit doet het daarin heel goed en staat op plek 10 van juridische faculteiten in Europa en op plek 40 wereldwijd. Wat moeten we hier mee? In 2005 schreef de Leidse hoogleraar Hans Nieuwenhuis … nog maar lastig weg te denken uit de wetenschap. Niet alleen wetenschappers, ook universiteiten en faculteiten worden met enige regelmaat geclassificeerd op basis van cijfermatige gegevens. Een belangrijke ranking is de jaarlijkse The Times Higher Education World University Ranking . Die bevat niet alleen een ranking van de 500 beste universiteiten (met de Universiteit Maastricht op plek 127), maar ook een ranking van juridische faculteiten. Vorige week verscheen de THE ranking voor 2020 . Op de … van Nieuwenhuis, weten we allemaal hoe het werkt met dit soort rankings. Wie stijgt klopt zich op de borst; wie het de volgende keer minder goed doet, verzwijgt de resultaten liever. Vorige week hebben we de resultaten dan ook met trots gedeeld op de website en via Twitter : wie van 1400 onderzochte universiteiten in de top 40 eindigt, mag dat laten weten. Belangrijker dan de plek in de ranking, zijn echter de onderliggende gegevens waarop die is gebaseerd en de vraag of we daar iets van kunnen …
… Zoekresultaten 16 maart 2020 door: G. van Dijck in Corona Law The corona virus is causing education to move from offline to online. In the Netherlands, the government and higher education institutions announced last Thursday (12 March 2020) that all in-person education has to be replaced by online education. Online means more reliance on technology. So here comes technology to the rescue. Or not? The introduction of the Video … the cloud can be listened back at a later date, even by individuals who were not in the meeting, and although customers' personal data is not 'sold', some of is shared with third parties. Perhaps more worrisome are cybersecurity concerns. What if "any website to forcibly join a user to a Zoom call, with their video camera activated, without the user's permission"? Or what about having a feature "where you can just send anyone a meeting link (for example https://zoom.us/j/492468757) and when they …
… Zoekresultaten 4 juni 2018 door: J. Reinold in General The internationalisation of higher education (IoHE) relates to sensitive topics of public concern. Considering the ongoing debate in the Netherlands regarding the challenges related to the internationalisation of higher education, it is time to take a step back and remember the many benefits as identified by the existing academic literature. International students around the world and in the Netherlands Migration for education is not a new phenomenon. As the number of individuals enrolled in higher education increased, so did the number of international students. To be precise, the absolute number of international students enrolled in higher education world-wide …
… 1 juli 2014 door: N.J.P.M. Bos in General Extra money: simply divvy it up or find a special use for it? The Executive Board and the deans did not have to think long when the question arose recently. Setting it off was a message from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science “that in the supplementary budget 2014 a substantial adjustment in the resource allocation 2014 and subsequent years is to be expected based on the number of students”. In short: there are more students in higher education than were previously estimated and thus higher education institutions will receive more money. In UM’s case around 4 million euros for 2014. Relief for the staff It was never a question whether extra funds were to be transferred to the faculties. Signals of increasing work stress on the staff, in …
… Zoekresultaten 28 mei 2018 door: J.M. Smits in Law While the internationalisation of higher education is under pressure in the Netherlands, legal education is an example of how a language policy can be successful: dependent on the aim and contents of the curriculum, lawyers can also be taught in other languages than their own. It is difficult to have missed it: the internationalisation of higher education is under pressure. Recently, for example, the association ‘Beter Onderwijs Nederland’ (BON) filed a claim against some Dutch universities, including Maastricht University, to question the increasing number of foreign students and the use of …
… Zoekresultaten 9 januari 2018 door: in Law The aim of this conference is to bring together educators, researchers, professionals and students, to engage in a meaningful dialogue regarding the future of legal education, using ADR as a means to deliver significant skills to future graduates. The Promise of 21st Century Skills Event on Thursday 18 January 2018, Jan Van Eyck Academy , Academieplein 1, 6211 KM Maastricht Technology is one of the main factors … the corner, one of the main questions a lot of professions will have in common is: what can professionals do, that machines cannot? One of the answers to this question relates to the increased attention given at international level to soft skills in education. These skills include empathy, communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity, to mention a few. Maastricht University’s Law Faculty has been trying to innovate the way in which legal education is delivered in the 21st century, through its inherent pedagogy (Problem-Based Learning) as well as out-of-the-classroom education such as moot court competitions and legal clinics. One of the activities undertaken in this respect is the …
… Zoekresultaten 25 januari 2024 door: S.A. Azhar in Law At the end of 2022, the House of Representatives instructed the Dutch government to take measures against the influx of international students in higher education. In response, the Ministry of Education requested Dutch higher education to stop actively recruiting international students and to limit this recruitment to specific programs. Following this request, the legislative proposal “The Act on Internationalization in Balance” has been … expect to attract more cross-border students considering the attractiveness of the language of instruction and their policies on welcoming and retaining more talents. [1] https://www.internetconsultatie.nl/internationaliseringho/b1 Visit the ITEM website . Labels: LBM ITEM S.A. Azhar Andere blogs: General Alumni Arts and Social Sciences Business and Economics Corona Heath, Medicine and Life Sciences Law Maastricht Students Psychology and Neuroscience Science and Engineering Universiteitsraad … …
… Zoekresultaten 1 juli 2020 door: H.T.H. Fonteijn in General Maastricht University’s cross-syllabus approach could point the way forward, say Herco Fonteijn and Teun Dekker. Read the full blog on Times Higher Education . Labels: gced H.T.H. Fonteijn Andere blogs: General Alumni Arts and Social Sciences Business and Economics Corona Heath, Medicine and Life Sciences Law Maastricht Students Psychology and Neuroscience Science and Engineering Universiteitsraad … Maastricht University’s cross-syllabus approach could point the way forward, say Herco Fonteijn and Teun Dekker. Read the full blog on Times Higher Education . … Now is the time for global citizenship education to come of age …
… Zoekresultaten 30 oktober 2017 door: A. Hoogenboom in Law Can Member States of the EU prohibit pupils from attending education abroad, simply on the belief that it might hamper the integration of these children into society? If this sounds extreme, read on. This contribution shows that educational mobility for schoolchildren is still fraught with obstacles in an area supposedly without internal frontiers, but that the restrictive measures of such mobility likely do not comply with EU law. Crossing borders in search of education? Not for schoolchildren! Primary and secondary education have an important role to play to ensure that new members of society are taught certain basic knowledge and skills, but also to induct them into the values, norms and principles that …