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Travellers in Leeuwarden must take into account the loss of bus trips due to a strike in regional transport on Wednesday. Employees put down their work for 24 hours to enforce a better CLA. Especially people who depend on the bus to go to work, school or an appointment can be disturbed by this. The strike is organised by trade unions CNV and FNV.
There will be no additional university places for dentistry students, despite the growing shortage of dentists. Education Minister Rianne Letschert informed Parliament that expanding study capacity is too expensive. Adding extra places would cost an estimated 30.1 million euros annually.
A report of domestic violence or child abuse often ends up in a large pile. For years, it has taken too long for action to be taken. There was already criticism from the outside, but now Veilig Thuis is ringing the bell itself. It is because the number of advice and reports continues to rise, the situations become more complex and there are shortages of care everywhere.
With book stairs, 'Bookflix', and a collection of 40,000 books, CSG Comenius Mariënburg in Leeuwarden encourages students to read. At this 'inspiration school', language education is not only taught in Dutch class.
With book stairs, 'Bookflix' and a collection of forty thousand books, CSG Comenius Mariënburg in Leeuwarden encourages students to read. Language education is not only given in Dutch at this 'inspiration school'.
During the Week of the Region this week, 250 students from five Frisian educational institutions came up with all kinds of solutions for how we can better deal with water. But the biggest gain? That is learning about the other person's point of view.
"At home or in the safe", is the advice of the government to not allow mobile phones in school from 2027. The question that now arises is: does this only apply to students, or also to teachers? More and more teachers who make videos with students are active on TikTok and Instagram. From prepared dances and sketches to spontaneous interactions with students in the classroom.
The French Minister of Education has announced an emergency plan in response to ongoing protests in France. In the short term, he wants to deploy more than 3,000 extra teachers. According to Minister Geffray, these teachers will work at the 514 schools with the largest teacher shortages. The minister says most of them can start by next Tuesday.
The court in The Hague has sentenced a man to four years in prison for raping an international student. Ghalied A., 33, from Hagen, posed as a police officer to gain access to the victim. A.
The former postal sorting center on the Snekertrekweg in Leeuwarden is in the picture as a location for the Freya College, the future free school for secondary education. Last summer, the private school received the green light from the ministry. Since then, the municipality of Leeuwarden has been looking for a building in which education can take place. The school will hold an open day on Wednesday, November 4, in the building on Snekertrekweg, which served as a temporary provincial government building between 2006 and 2011.
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