The coronavirus is hitting vulnerable elderly people the hardest in every respect, finds Maastricht University Professor Hilde Verbeek.&n
Honours programme’s EDLAB: online is also fine
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The new challenge: finding a routine in online education
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Finding a new routine in education is the biggest challenge we face, says Patrick Bijsmans, assistant professor in European Studies

Student babysitters unburden employees
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Two medical interns of Maastricht University (UM) seized the corona crisis for a special new initiative.

Selection predicts better performance
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Before she began her PhD, Sanne Schreurs thought “important people” were standoffish.

One-of-a-kind PhD defence
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Last Friday, the final PhD defence for the foreseeable future was held in the Minderbroedersberg. Sanne Schreurs obtained her PhD cu

Report from the front lines by professor-general practitioner Jochen Cals
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Professor of General Practice Medicine Jochen Cals is also a practicing general practitioner in Sittard, a city that is suffering from a


Mark Levels and social order in times of corona
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For Professor Mark Levels of the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA), it’s business as usual these days - a

Necessity as the mother of invention
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UM’s buildings might be closed but its teaching is charging full steam ahead, evolving faster than ever.
