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Previously we informed you that Dutch Universities agreed with unions to a new Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities (CAO NU).
The full text of the CAO NU is now available on the website of VSNU. Currently only a Dutch version is available of the appendix; VSNU will commission a translation as soon as possible.
The duration of this collective agreement is from 2 July 2016 to 30 June 2017 and has been extended until 1 July 2018.
In the next period texts on the UM-website will be adapted.
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When you have completed your secondary school education in a non-EU country, the opportunity to attend university in Maastricht is naturally quite exciting. The only catch is that your diploma may not meet the requirements in the Netherlands. Which is why Maastricht University is offering the Foundation Programme.
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Five of the 154 granted Veni-applications came from Maastricht.
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Last week, the first graduation ceremony ever for the master’s programme Systems Biology took place. After two years of hard work, the first batch of students received their well-deserved master diplomas.
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After two years of hard work, the first graduates received their well-deserved diplomas for the master’s programme Biobased Materials.
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People with a job tend to learn more when carrying out their daily tasks and collaborating with experienced colleagues.
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How many spells are cast by the characters in the seven Harry Potter books? That’s what master’s students of Data Science for Decision Making Moritz Haine and Markus Dienstknecht wanted to find out in celebration of Harry Potter’s 20th anniversary. To answer their question, they used text mining, an information retrieval technique common in computer science.
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A new journal has been established to allow the publication of research that does not produce results or has been executed poorly.