Last month, the European commission on home affairs released a report assessing the implementation of the laid down rules in the 2004 Directive on the conditions of admission of non EU nationals for purposes of studies, exchange, unremunerated training or voluntary service. In the report, the commission noted that foreign students still experience...
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Utrecht is the Dutch-style city I had imagined it to be before arriving in Holland. I have previously visited Amsterdam, so I thought that Utrecht would look pretty similar and I was right. It is a small city compared to my hometown, Madrid, which is a very good thing when you want to move...
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Politics, anthropology, journalism- and a somewhat less serene leisure time. 24-year-old Anouk Mentink is used to the noble art of simultaneous capacity. This hasn’t always been the case, though. - I did a lot at high school, but not studying. I was a bit lazy back then I guess, Anouk admits with a smile....
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Dear Caroline This morning (or to be more honest- early this afternoon) I woke up to my eighth day in Utrecht. I have merely been here for a week, but it feels much more like three months. New city, new room, new school, a Lot of new people- as you can imagine everything is...
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By Steffen Hesseldal Windfeld-Hansen and Beatriz Paúl Naya “You just need to look at the yellow piece of paper, and then you will know where to get it”, Arie said in the library. It seemed easy, just around the corner, as many things are in Utrecht, but as it turns out, nothing is that...
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By Kai Heijneman & Michael Huguenin The Netherlands is known as a friendly country. So exchange students should have no problem fitting in with the Dutch…right? This was supposed to be easy. My time as an exchange student in Utrecht has gotten off to a decent start. School’s organised, I’ve moved in and I’m...
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Journalism wasn’t Kai Heijneman’s first choice for a career and he readily admits it won’t be his last. Kai first studied Artificial Intelligence in Nijmegen before he moved to Hogeschool Utrecht. But the Arnhem native believes his long-term future lies in politics. “In that regard I’m in the right course now and also with...
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