Stories
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Thinking from a ‘world union’ perspective
28-03-2023“I’m from Italy and did my bachelor’s in Psychology at another Dutch university, Leiden. After high school I wasn’t sure what to study, so I went to London for two and a half years to improve my English.
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“I found a home away from home”
28-03-2023“I was born in South Africa, my mum is from Taiwan and I grew up in Cyprus. With this background, plus the many international internships I did during high school, it was quite natural for me to choose a study programme abroad.”
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Why and how do some female child carers in Lesotho manage to stay in school despite being responsible for running a household? This was the question that researcher Brenda Yamba, originally from Zambia, wanted to answer. She defended her PhD at Maastricht University last June.
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“There’s no right or wrong here”
28-03-2023“I’m originally from Cologne in Germany and I was looking for a study programme abroad, taught in English but close to home. The year before I came to Maastricht, I was working in the tourist sector in Italy. So I moved directly from Italy to Maastricht.”
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More fun in the legal classroom
28-03-2023The work lawyers do, the way they do it – indeed, the entire labour market – is changing radically. This calls for new, ‘soft’ skills, which in turn requires an education revolution.
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A life of learning
28-03-2023Jan van Manen held many positions during his four decades in the police force. Now, as a member of the National Video Reconstruction Team and the Disaster Victim Identification Team, he still works the occasional 60 hour week.
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A passport is not a panacea*
28-03-2023*but it can make a big difference in an immigrant’s life
It takes five years of uninterrupted stay in the Netherlands for a foreigner to become a Dutch citizen through naturalisation.
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From Rotterdam to Dubai, via Maastricht
28-03-2023Asked what she misses most about the Netherlands and she mentions her mother and her two dogs. Then there’s the clean air, cycling to work and proper bread with cheese. Otherwise, Eloise le Conge Kleyn’s life in Dubai looks a lot like her old life here.
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Cut red tape in healthcare and facilitate research: this is what three UM graduates are hoping to achieve with their newly established company, Consense Data Exchange.
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The risks of convenience
28-03-2023The EU-wide General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will oblige companies to have a data protection officer, to inform authorities and affected individuals of security breaches, and to invest in data encryption and intrusion prevention and detection systems.