Ups and downs for students from year 12 and/or vwo 6 who are selected for the Academic Challenge and the Dutch version of this challenge, the ‘Wetensc...

Many measures have been taken to curtail the spread of the coronavirus. ICLON wants to inform you how to contact us in these times.

Passionate, innovative lecturers are the driving force behind our education. Janine Geerling, former assistant professor of the Bio-Pharmaceutical Sci...

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...

Nivja de Jong, researcher at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) and the Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching (ICLON), has wo...

In the Netherlands approximately 130 out of 700 secondary schools offer a bilingual stream. However, research about CLIL (Content and Language Integra...

Research and design are two activities that are becoming increasingly important in the Dutch subjects O&O (‘research and design’) and NLT ('nature, l...

For most school students, writing their extended essay (or profielwerkstuk) is the first time they really come into contact with what it means to do r...

Studying with an app and exploratory learning in large groups. Two educational innovations that will be possible thanks to the Comenius Programme of t...

Thanks to Ian Cook’s ‘Who Made My Clothes?’ MOOC, thousands of students have researched where their clothes come from. How does this geographer from t...

Mayke Vereijken (ICLON) has been appointed Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).

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...

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...

The ‘Wetenschapscongres for vwo’ gets an Anglophone edition: 'Leiden University’s Academic Challenge’.

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...