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Univers Online
Univers, the independent magazine of Tilburg University
This website features blogs, newsupdates and everything you need to know about Tilburg's student life, education & science and things-to-do in Tilburg city.
On Thursdays, grab the latest Univers issue from the red displays all around campus, with two pages in English.
News or ideas?
Contact Lieke Meertens: univers@uvt.nl
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Last update: Thursday 02 September 2010 |
Survival Guide Tilburg
 What land could be more perilous than an unknown city, in which you not only have to survive, but also want to have an amazing student life? Univers brings you eight basic rules of survival which will enrich your Tilburg life and protect you from a slow and tragic burial beneath piles of study books. [read more]
Students help Pharmacaps to enter Middle East
Start in Israel and Saudi Arabia, and use local partners. That’s the winning advice a group of international students has given pharmaceutical company Banner Pharmacaps. The students took part in the International entrepreneurship challenge of Tilburg University Summer School. [read more]
Hello: Ahoj Dunaj
 Liberal Arts student Henk Bovekerk made a trip along the Danube for a travel agency this summer. Together with a female colleague, he guided a group of seven girls aged sixteen to nineteen, and visited Vienna, Bratislava and Budapest. [read more]
New management Social Sciences
This summer, part of the management team of the School of Social and Behavioural Sciences has been replaced. From 1 September, Social Psychology Professor Diederik Stapel will become the new Dean. [read more]
New student centre in Tilburg
Tilburg University has bought the historical ‘Duvelhok’ complex in the centre of the city to make a student centre out of it. The centre will accomodate workplaces, a mensa, a bar and various meeting rooms. The renovation should be ready in 2012. [IR]
Grotto Concert
What? A concert on the harpsichord and accordion
| When? Sunday 29th of August 8-8.45 p.m. |
Where? Grotto, park De Oude Warande
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Pick of the Week
Typically Tilburg? Univers has explored it all and brings a list of the must-do Tilburg events if you study in Tilburg. Tilburg’s pubs and diners are also scrutinized in a strict but fair way. Read the complete night guide to Tilburg. Online from Monday.
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High Flyers
 Some students have an aura of promise about them. You can just tell that they are going to play an important role at the top of society later on in life. Univers set out to scout 'high flyers' at Tilburg University.
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Pick of the Summer
Theology starts English master's
Learning in extra time
Dating the Dutch for Dummies
Thaler's 'nudge' towards good behavior
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Roel Mehlkopf
Dear Bachelor
Sonia Kolasinska
Dear Polish worker,
Morag Goodwin
A vote for the PVV was shameful, not bold
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What can you do in Tilburg this spring? How do the international dinners at Iconn work? These are just a few things which you can find on the new Univers weblog: Tilburg goes global. [[read more]]
Trade, inform other students, and stay up-to-date with the latest information of what is going on around Tilburg at StuGood.org. [have a look]
How to Dutch Up Your International Student Life. Follow former master's student of International Business Sandra Hechler's blog Yes You Can, San! [read more]
Andrew Cartwright, Campus Poet of Tilburg University, posts poems, thoughts, dreams & more on his blog, The Stiletto Crow Poetry Show. [Go to]
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MEANWHILE ABROAD
French students invade UK universities to get better deal
Times Online - More than 13,000 full-time students from France have enrolled on British courses. They now make up the second largest group of overseas students in the UK. [14 Mar]
Hugging Salford University students break world record
BBC - To raise money for the Christie Cancer Hospital a pair of embracing students from Greater Manchester have broken the world record for the longest hug. [10 Mar]
Jobs for managers outpace academics
Financial Times - The number of managers at UK universities has risen more than three times as fast as the number of academics since 2003. [23 Feb]
The £8,000 broadband bill shock from Orange
Guardian - A university student wanted internet access while in Paris for six months. That's when his problems started. [21 Feb]
Universities told to consider dope tests as student use of 'smart drugs' soars
Guardian - Cambridge scientist calls for ethical debate on drugs bought on internet that boost alertness and attention. [21 Feb]
Stanford student was victim of Google cyber attack
ABC - A 20-year-old Stanford University student is one of the victims of a sophisticated cyber attack from China on Google and others. [15 Jan]
Facebook de-friending carries a sting
Health & Fitness Blog ¿ How do you feel when you discover you¿ve been de-friended by someone on Facebook? Psychologist tells how to de-friend with sensitivity. [30 Nov]
Students And Professors 'Friending' On Facebook
CityTownInfo ¿ College students and their professors are increasingly utilizing Facebook--not just to learn more about each other, but as a teaching tool. [13 Nov]
Turkish student throws shoe at IMF chief
Reuters ¿ A Turkish student threw a shoe at IMF Managing Director Strauss-Kahn as he made a speech to economy students in Istanbul. [1 Oct]
Yale student's body found behind lab wall
LA Times ¿ Yale University mourns the graduate student, whose body was found stuffed into a wall at the lab where she worked. A lab technician is said to be a suspect. [15 Sept]
Cheating Belgian students disqualified after bragging on Facebook
Expatica.com ¿ The Flemish Exam Contestation Council accepted comments on Facebook as evidence and proof of fraud. [26 Aug]
University students 'have more friends'
Politics.co.uk ¿ People who go to university have more best friends than those who don¿t, a new report revealed today. [18 Aug]
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