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A real professor in the classroom: ‘Did you sweat in the Sweat Room?’Dies Natalis 09 February 2026It may be the best tradition of them all: on the university’s birthday, its professors go to primary schools to teach a special lesson. This year, 75 ...
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D&I Symposium 2026: ‘You can’t call something inclusive if it doesn’t include everyone’03 February 2026How can our university really become inclusive? This is what students and staff discussed at our annual Diversity & Inclusion symposium. ‘It’s moving ...
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'An opportunity to learn new things myself'Lateral entry programme Dutch 30 January 2026Sang-Ah Yoo is a freelance journalist and is following the lateral entry programme Dutch at ICLON Leiden University. She enjoys showing students what ...
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Teaching across bordersCharlotte and Malou taught classes abroad 19 December 2025What is it like to teach at an international school, surrounded by different languages, cultures and educational traditions? The World Teachers Progra...
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Discover teaching: ‘Take the leap!’11 December 2025Nicky Boer is enrolled in the Educational Master’s Programme in Social Studies/Social Sciences at ICLON, the Leiden University Graduate School of Teac...
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‘Teach young people to take control of technology’Inaugural lecture 30 October 2025Technology is spreading its tendrils into the classroom. But who is in control? In her inaugural lecture, Professor Nadira Saab calls for ‘digital age...
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Children learn how medicines work: ‘Some pills go in your bottom!’Education 05 June 2025A pill can make you better, but how exactly does it work? Primary school children from The Hague found out during a visit to the Centre for Human Drug...
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A real professor in the classroom: ‘What do you like best about your work?’Meet the professor 07 February 2025Each year on the university’s birthday, children at primary schools in Leiden and The Hague have a lesson from a professor – about children’s rights a...
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European CLIL community gathers in Leiden08 November 2024Recently, ICLON welcomed some 75 colleagues from 15 European countries for a meeting on Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in research an...
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Political scientist teaches VWO pupils: ‘some knew more than I did at that age’05 November 2024It is a full classroom: more than 30 pupils from 5 and 6 vwo are present to listen to political scientist Leila Demarest's lecture. She gives a brief ...
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Researcher teaching in the classroom: ‘We need to imitate nature more closely’27 June 2024How can we supply the growing world population with sustainable energy? At Laurens Lyceum in Rotterdam, Prof. Marc Koper speaks with the students abou...
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How do you evaluate quality of teaching?14 May 2024What do we really know about educational quality and its measurement? This was the subject of the first Higher Education Knowledge Café.
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World Teachers Festival: a celebration of globally-minded educators07 May 2024On 21 March 2024, the ‘learners’ at Wolfert Bilingual in Rotterdam were not teenagers, but some 180 teachers and teacher educators from around the Net...
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Bilingual and international education central to World Teachers Programme22 April 2024In this bilingual profile, you follow university teacher training with a special focus on language, culture and diversity in bilingual and internation...
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Interview with Markus Davidsen on his Comenius project12 April 2024Assistant professor Markus Davidsen has received the Comenius grant, with which he wishes to improve secondary education on religion. In this intervie...