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'Unless we revise our higher-education system, Dutch universities will find themselves in a situation that can already be seen in America and Great Britain. '

Brothers Marius, Hendrik, Hans and Arie-Willem de Leeuw - all four PhD holders - have wanted to know ‘how it all works’ since they were young children.

Jan Haarhuis, manager of the education-innovation programme Educate-it received the 'change maker' award in the ICT and Education Professionals category.

Professor Dr José van Dijck will be appointed Distinguished Professor of Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ as of 1 January 2017.

Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ is starting a new Teaching Fellow Programme. Aim is to strengthen educational leadership within the university and to increase quality.

The project ‘Developing Teaching Competencies for Extensive Reading Programs’ has been awarded ERASMUS+ funding.

Bart Besamusca and Hugo Quené are appointed as of 1 August 2016, Thijs Weststeijn as of 1 October.

In the series ‘Ethical annotations’, researchers and students of the Ethics Institute are listing all moral considerations linked to refugee admission

Master's students will work together to create an online exhibition of one of the oldest and most abundantly illustrated Middle-Dutch manuscripts.

Utrecht students have won first prize in the Facebook Global Digital Challenge with their campaign against extremism.

As of 1 September, Prof. Ted Sanders will be Vice-Dean of graduate education at the Faculty of Humanities.

Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ is the only Dutch participant in this international project in which students develop social media campaigns against extremism.

EUscreen is organising a competition, asking users to pick their favourite video from an online collection of 60.000 items.

For Thomas Bakx, Marjolein de Jager, Ivo Gabe de Wolff, Bas Verseveldt en Arnold Kole

Best first-year Bachelor's student Physics of Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ

Best first-year Bachelor's student Computer Science of Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ

Best first-year Bachelor's student Mathematics of Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ

Best first-year Bachelor's student in Chemistry of Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ

Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ is awarding four honorary doctorates, to: Robert J. Sampson, Sybil Seitzinger, Francine Houben and Jordi Savall.

Prof. Louis Peter Grijp passed away on January 9 at the age of 61. He was Professor of ‘Dutch song culture: past and present’.