How can you select the best students?
Universities are eager to select students with the best chances of graduating with a degree. Methods such as researching motivation are not very reliable. A prospective student will not always answer such questions honestly. It’s a much better idea to work with taster assignments. PhD researcher Susan Niessen discovered that this type of selection is a much better predictor of a good match between degree programme and student. In addition to degree programme and university choice, this approach can also be applied to job interview procedures and requests for sports or other scholarships.
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24 January 2022
Deafblind individuals enjoy ‘sense stories’
The University of Groningen, together with Koninklijke Kentalis, is researching whether ‘sense stories’ – stories that can be told through smell or touch, for example – can help to improve communication with deafblind people.
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Open access book teaches researchers programming language ‘Julia’
On November 1, 2021, psychology PhD student Rik Huijzer published an open access book about the programming language ‘Julia’. With the book, he hopes to give researchers tools to get started with Julia themselves.
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Generations and Gender Programme included in ESFRI Roadmap 2021
The Generations ad Gender Programme (GGP) is officially recognized as an important research infrastructure. On December 7 it was announced that the programme is one of the eleven projects that will be included in the ESFRI roadmap 2021.