Hunting season has started!

Flirting, the first date, a one-night stand: it’s all a part of the student life and Michelle van der Molen, student in Journalism, knows everything about this. The perfect spot ✗ Don’t: The pub. Of course the alcohol is flowing and it migh ...

Where the wild parties are…

You are looking for an adventure. But which students’ fraternity actually has something to offer? CARAMBA! When you think of a party, you think of Oikos Nomos. Every year on Maundy Thursday (the day before Good Friday) they throw a fantasti ...

How do you sell fashion?

Student Rinze seduces people to buy How do you get visitors from your website to make a purchase? Student Rinze Kooistra knows all about that. Namely because he has a successful website for exclusive clothing. Hundreds of thousands of cloth ...

‘Windesheim needs to make choices’

Services concerned about budget cuts Managerial Framework document 2018 imposes a budget cut of eight hundred thousand on services Head of the Unit Participation Council Henk Bosman: ‘Where does the Central Participation Council see any roo ...

Intersections safer at campus

Road maintenance during summer holidays Local authority Zwolle will handle the traffic unsafety around campus There will be a speed bump on the intersection leading to the main entrance City hall is using 150 000 Euros for various modificat ...

Gaming for PEC

Student Stefan defends the honour of Zwolle in ‘e-division’ Recently, Premier League clubs have also been fighting about who’s the best of The Netherlands in the virtual world of FIFA17. Every club has their own ‘e-s porter’ employed.  CALO ...

Electrical and Electronic Engineering best study programme

Windesheim again second place in student survey Windesheim once more has a very high percentage of satisfied students, 82 percent. Best are the study programmes of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Marketing in Almere. The first ana ...

Shrink supporting staff making good progress

Already a solid downsizing reached The cuts in the services need to be done before 2018 In total 2,5 million will be cut and downsize of 25 FTE will be realized   This is mentioned by Pieter Dieckmann, who is director of the Business M ...

Chinese rites of passage

There they are, the five students I have coached in their projects in the past two and a half months: since yesterday officially graduated! From left to right: Bin Jiahui (Jawei), Chen Jie (Cherry), Li Jinwang (Ken), Yang Yahan (Yahan) and ...

Racing on solar energy

Joris builds a car to improve the world Student Joris Raaphorst is building a Nuna9, a car that runs on solar energy to race straight through Australia. “I cannot tell everything about how we build the car. Some things need to stay secret, ...

Islam students coming to Windesheim

Inholland cancels study programmes Teacher Education The university of applied sciences drew in roughly thirty students annually for the study programme of ‘teacher education in Islam religion’ Peter de Haan: ‘We need to be able to offer th ...

“Just go, go, go”

Student Mandy is one of the best motocross riders in the Netherlands. The biggest passion of second year Educational theory Mandy Vogelkamp: Motocross. She started participating in the National Championship when she was only thirteen years ...

Reorganisation Human Movement and Education going well

First two waves of measures practically finished The unit participation council is very positive about the cooperation with the director. Chair Cor Niks: ‘We still have a lot to do as unit participation council.’ Since the reorganisation is ...

Free time for debates and culture

‘Dialoogtafel’ searching for new meaning Organiser Arie Jansen wrestles with moderate interest. His ideal: separate hours for culture and debate. ‘The interest varies.’ Says Arie Jansen. After the lack of interest in the last session, he pl ...

Stunting in a canoe

Brenno is the best freestyle-canoeist in the Netherlands Three years ago, Windesheim student Brenno bought a canoe so he could ‘paddle away’ during a holiday. Since then he does little else. He prefers doing tricks. That is what won him the ...

Degree programme committee will become participation body

One regulation for degree programme committees, unit participation councils and the central participation council. Degree programme committees are to receive right of consent, just like unit participation councils and the central participat ...

Barely candidates for participation council

 ‘The CMR might be empty next year!’ The Central Participation Council (CMR) threatens to be abandoned for the time to come. CMR-member Boy Rolloos: ‘Do students and employees even want a democratic university of applied sciences?’ Too litt ...

‘I never have to be the designated driver!’

Usher-patient Jorrit won’t let himself be put off Student Jorrit Overweg is hard hearing and partially sighted. Still he has an optimistic outlook on live: “There are so many things I can do!” “You have to imagine that every day I have to l ...

BMR ends experiment assessor

Student no longer welcome at consultation meetings Members of the management team feel that they are constrained by the presence of a student. Director Rob van Lamalgen: ‘It was an experiment, we learned from it.’ The management team of div ...

Pilot flexible testing

Student decides date of exam himself Five study programmes have started flexible testing on an individual level In the pilot, students can have an exam on a date of his own choice The pilot will be held in the third and fourth test periods. ...