News
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The national Reference Index for High-Risk Children (Verwijsindex Risicojongeren), an ICT system introduced in 2010 to identify high-risk children at an early stage and to facilitate collaboration between various support agencies, does not work as intended nor can practicing professionals apply it...
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Irshad Manji, a well-known critic of traditional mainstream Islam and described by The New York Times as "Osama bin Laden's worst nightmare", will give the Tans Lecture, titled ‘Beyond Geert Wilders: Turning Polarisation into Constructive Conflict’. The lecture will take place on 10 November.
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With 94 out of 100 points and three plusses (+++), University College Maastricht (UCM) was ranked the highest-rated bachelor's programme in the Netherlands according the Dutch university information guide Keuzegids Universiteiten 2016.
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UM to head research on customer-friendly system in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium as of 2016
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The budget cuts facing the Public Prosecution Service until 2018 are threatening the organisation's ability to function.
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The Department of Psychopharmacology at Maastricht University once again received a major commission from a drug manufacturer, this time the Japanese company Eisai, to test the effects of a sleeping drug on driving ability.
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Thanks to an external doctoral student under the supervision of professor René de Groot at Maastricht University, the future is looking a little bit brighter for the millions of Africans living without an official nationality.
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It will soon be possible to measure whether chemical substances can cause skin allergies (contact allergy) without relying on animal testing.
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Professor Clemens van Blitterswijk has won the 2015 Huibregtsen Prize.
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The board of the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences of Maastricht University has appointed Professor Maurice Zeegers as the new scientific director of CAPHRI, the School for Public Health and Primary Care of Maastricht University.