Time for summer clothes! But we have put on some weight during the lockdown. Was that inevitable? Stefan Beedten (20), first-year Entrepreneurship & Retail Management: “Covid pounds? Since I couldn’t go to the gym anymore, I have defini ...
‘Corona has rekindled my passion for music’ Singing has always played an important role in the life of Urcy Miranda. This spring, the Law teacher released her first single: “Virtual Hug”, for all the Windesheimers who could use some cheerfu ...
“Did you know that sexual violence and sex without mutual consent is more common among students than among other age categories?”, asks Windesheim-student Dureid. “It is important that we talk more about this subject.” That is w ...
Next year Windesheim will transfer to a new ´learning management system´: Brightspace. In September the first study programmes will start using Brightspace. The current electronic learning environment, N@tschool, shuts down in September 202 ...
The new first-year students who are starting next August, have had a year and a half of online education and have barely got a chance to get to know the University of Applied Sciences. How are we going to evaluate them? Henk Hagoort, chair ...
Melanie Hellendoorn, a Social work student at Windesheim, recently took part in a special meeting. Through a video connection, she spoke to Queen Máxima about her volunteer work as the buddy of an eleven-year-old boy. The conversation was p ...
Some vulnerable or lonely people could use some help, especially in times of corona. That’s why student Ruben Oude Nijhuis (first-year Social Work) is a buddy for two psychologically vulnerable people, during his internship is at healthcare ...
Some vulnerable or lonely people could use some help, especially in times of corona. That’s why student Iris Hofsink (fourth-year Nursing) regularly does small jobs for vulnerable people. “Since I study Nursing, I know that there’s a lot of ...
Some vulnerable or lonely people could use some help, especially in times of corona. That’s why student Ruud Kamp (first-year Social Work) is a buddy for two fifteen-year-old boys with psychological problems. “One of the boys has autism and ...
Some vulnerable or lonely people could use some help, especially in times of corona. That’s why student Rick Uitdewillegen (recently graduated Accountancy) regularly gets groceries for a blind man whose mobility is impaired. “He has a ...
Some vulnerable or lonely people could use some help, especially in times of corona. That’s why student Willem Wisselink (third-year Social Work) organises meetings for young people looking for social contact, through youth organisation Imp ...
WIN is fond of students with special outfits. Today: Ernestina Omuni-Kwenzilike (24), Fourth-year student Journalism Are you always this fancy?“I do wear jeans and plain shirts every now and then, but when I do, I combine them with high hee ...
Mika Jeuring was fourteen years old when he was placed out of his home due to an unsafe home situation. The new 18-year-old Social Work student wants to help get other people what he needed in his situation. The Hip-Hop scene plays an impor ...
The construction of the new entrance building at the back of the C building has started. There will be a beautiful glass entrance hall and a park with benches next to it, which will give the renovated building a green appearance. In the las ...
Twenty students and employees wrote poems for the poetry week at Windesheim. A lot of them contained emotional expressions about the current Corona-period. The Windesheimers wrote the poems as part of the national poetry week (28th of ...
I hear if often from the people around me. I feel it too myself: emptiness. The other day my friend told me: “Life is a party. But… life is also what you make of it.” Easier said than done. Because it’s hard if you can’t find anything ...
The flow of online lessons and the lack of contact is breaking students more and more. Fortunately, there are ways to fight the loneliness. “Students are having a hard time these days”, Minister of Education Van Engelshoven wrote in a ...
They don’t have to pay for their room in apartment building ‘Louis Armstrong’ in Zwolle. In exchange, Social work students Jessica Brugman and Winnie Cheung, help improve the liveability in the apartment building. This is an initiative by h ...
Journalism student and music enthusiast Roy Blokzijl is an intern at the lunch program of Gijs 2.0 at Radio 2. Radio connects. “The top 2000” is the most prominent example of it, according to Roy. He makes sure that he is not missing a sing ...
The death of African Americans due to police violence has created quite a global stir. Three Social work students from Almere (Trisha, Julia and Shaïmaa) want to contribute to a world without racism. That includes taking a critical look at ...
