News
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2018 Hall of Fame 21 December 2018
Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a...
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New insights to support teachers and pupils 27 November 2018
Good education is the basis for a fair and sustainable society. To maintain a high level of education, teachers, pupils, lecturers and students need n...
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Creating and celebrating excellent Extended Essays: launching Leiden University’s Academic Challenge 12 November 2018
The ‘Wetenschapscongres for vwo’ gets an Anglophone edition: 'Leiden University’s Academic Challenge’.
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Effect of peer feedback on academic writing 24 August 2018
Feedback from fellow students on academic writing is as informative as that of teachers. That is one of the findings in Bart Huisman's (ICLON) dissert...
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Intercultural training in Vietnam 20 August 2018
In Vietnam, foreign trade and culture are pervasive. Therefore, the need arises for students to learn more about cultural differences and intercultura...
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Intermediate assessment in different ways 04 June 2018
In higher education intermediate assessment is used in different ways. In her PhD research Indira Day (ICLON) shows that lecturers should be able to c...
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Importance of research in medical education 07 May 2018
Doctors are expected to apply recent insights from research to improve patient care. This is one of the reasons for integrating research into medical ...
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Differentiation in education 04 May 2018
Many teachers in secondary education take differences between pupils into account . PhD research by Saskia Stollman (ICLON) shows that they need room ...
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Skateboarding in physics class: research into the interests of young people 03 April 2018
Young people often have many and varied interests. In three projects at ICLON of Leiden University, researchers examine which interests young people h...
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Coaching secondary school pupils 09 February 2018
Learning from and with each other. The 'Haags Mentorprogramma" started on 7 February 2018 and links students from Leiden University and De Haagse Hoge...
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Hall of Fame 2017 22 December 2017
Many of our staff and students have won prizes over the past year. Others have been awarded a subsidy, or, because of their eminence in their field, t...
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Status holders are preparing for teacher training 04 December 2017
In November 2017, six status holders attended an introduction training course on Dutch education at ICLON.
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Chinese and Dutch Teachers of English have different opinions about cultures associated with the English language 17 November 2017
Teachers of English as a foreign language in China and the Netherlands have different notions of themselves as teachers in relation to cultures associ...
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Two different approaches at the Diversity symposium 14 November 2017
One of the speakers at the Diversity symposium on 22 November is Estela Mara Bensimon, highly honoured professor of Higher Education in the US. A seco...
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Interest: a complex concept in education 28 September 2017
It's much easier to learn something if you're interested in it. But students' interests are often diverse and wide-ranging, says Sanne Akkerman, Profe...