By @brigitspan at the TU/e website “The new Code of Conduct helps clarify what desirable behavior looks like in day-to-day practice.” Photo: Bart van OverbeekeThe CORe values of our university, Curious, Open, Respectful, and Responsible, or CORe for short, were established at the end of 2024. But how do we work, study, and live together at our university? Our values have now been translated into a new Code of Conduct for the entire TU/e co...
Source: Univers, independent news source of Tilburg University ‘Universities are expected to deliver measurable results: faster degrees, more graduates, and research with economic outcomes,’ writes Yeşim Topuz. ‘The question of what the value of education is gets lost.’ Yeşim Topuz. Beeld Ton ToemenLately, education has been talked about in terms of what it produces rather than what it is or does to us. For example in the 2024 OECD PISA report...
source: website TU/e Wellbeing series: @andreakis dealt with a burnout and personal change during her PhD. Now, she’s pursuing change in the academic world through conversation such as the event Responsible Research Conversations on Thursday, September 18. Photo: Bart van OverbeekeAs a third generation PhD researcher from Hungary, Andrea Kis was following a family tradition when she arrived at TU/e in late 2019 to start her PhD. Her resea...
februari 2026, bron: website KNAW Wetenschap is tegenwoordig meer dan publiceren en subsidies binnenhalen. In het landelijke programma Erkennen & Waarderen (E&W) staan bijvoorbeeld ook het belang van leiderschap, samenwerking en maatschappelijke impact centraal. De KNAW ondersteunt dit programma als aanjager van de wetenschap én als werkgever van twaalf instituten. Samen met Leo Lucassen, directeur IISG en oud-voorzitter van de Stuurgroep E&W...
February 2026 TU/e door @brigitspan “Innovation is the holy grail of science, but the drive for novelty has taken on obsessive forms.” Engineer-philosopher Krist Vaesen wrote a book on neomania in science: Krist Vaesen with his book Neomania. Photo: Bart van Overbeeke Science is driven by an insatiable hunger for innovation. But this fixation on novelty does not make science stronger. It makes it more vulnerable, argues engineer-philosop...
bron: UToday Edwin Zondervan is hoogleraar Process Systems Engineering aan de Universiteit Twente, en speelt graag een potje rugby met zijn studenten. Hij schrijft een maandelijkse column over de dynamiek van systemen, wetenschap, onderwijs en samenwerking. Maar ook over de zin en onzin van het academische. PHOTO BY: RIKKERT HARINK Er zijn van die momenten waarop een universiteit even in de spiegel moet kijken. De afgelopen weken was zo’n ...
bron: website Utoday 13/11/2025 Three young academics sent in this opinion piece. They challenge senior scholars’ backlash against the UT’s decision to abolish cum laude, questioning why a title for fewer than 5 percent of PhDs matters more than deeper issues of fairness and inequality. ‘Are we saying the work of more than 95 percent of PhD graduates is barely adequate?’ A PhD defence at the UT, photo taken by Oleksandr Mialyk. Reading the neg...
The text below is a literal copy from the website of Utrecht University. In 2022, Utrecht University implemented the TRIPLE promotion model, designed to broaden recognition of academic contributions and personal developments across six domains: Team Spirit, Research, Impact, Professional Performance, Leadership and Education. The Utrecht Young Academy (UYA) conducted a survey among assistant and associate professors (N = 147) to evaluate how t...
bron: website De Jonge Akademie 24-10-2025 De Jonge Akademie reageert op de implementatie van de Startersbeurzen. In 2022 kondigde demissionair minister Dijkgraaf grootschalige investeringen aan in het onderzoek en onderwijs. Een belangrijk instrument om dit te bereiken was de Startersbeurs voor elke beginnende universitair docent (ud) met een vast contract. In dit statement benoemt De Jonge Akademie drie risico’s die we zien in de huidige imp...