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For Harry Verhaar, the final of Teacher of the Year is more than a personal honour. Impulse's gym teacher sees an opportunity to draw attention to home sitters. That mission is personal: his two sons got stuck in education.
Fires, accidents, traffic jams, delays and short news items: with this live blog you can follow 112 news and other short news in Friesland closely.
Fires, accidents, traffic jams, delays and short news items: with this live blog you can follow 112 news and other short news in Friesland closely.
Students of the interdisciplinary social science programme at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) are not allowed to use laptops, phones and tablets during lectures. This academic year, the program introduced the prohibition to promote concentration. "60 to 80 percent of students are doing other things than listening during lectures with digital equipment," says Cyrilein Evertsen, associate professor of the program. "Whether that's shopping online or forwarding things to each other via Instagram.
From next school year, teachers and other employees in primary education can receive a flu shot at the expense of their employer. This is reported by the education union AOb via the Onderwijsblad, the magazine of the association. For this 2026-2027 school year, employers may still decide for themselves whether to offer the flu shot to their employees free of charge. The AOb says it has been committed to free vaccination for five years.
For Sinti, Roma and travellers, "shockingly little" has improved in the Netherlands in recent years. National Ombudsman Reinier van Zutphen concludes that they are still discriminated against and excluded, nine years after he first established that. “I miss the sense of urgency in government,” he writes. It is almost normal to discriminate against Roma, Sinti and travellers.
Urgent action is needed to improve the safety and living conditions of juveniles in juvenile prisons. This is what the three inspections involved in juvenile detention say in a fire letter to the State Secretary for Justice and Security. The young people are suffering from the shortage of staff, which is making their daily programme increasingly stricter, point out the inspections of Justice and Security, Education, and Healthcare and Youth.
Several thousand people attended the National Peace Protest in Amsterdam this afternoon, which was organised by the New Peace Movement, FNV Young & United and the National Student Union (LSVb). Extinction Rebellion and the youth organisations of Pro, the SP and the Party for the Animals had also joined the protest. Under the slogan "Stop the War Fever", those present demonstrated against what they call "the current course of militarisation" of the Netherlands.
After a long delay, the demolition ball can be placed in the Aldlânstate service flat on the outskirts of Leeuwarden. Temporary residents have been living in the building for years, and they will have to leave in the near future. 126 new apartments for seniors will be built on the spot. "I have really had the courage to let us down," says director-director Désirée van Dijk-Attema of Stichting Rendant.
A previously unknown hacker group claims to have broken into grocery deliverer Flink. The hackers are currently approaching employees and customers with an ultimatum: if they do not pay, their data will be published. This concerns an amount of approximately 10 to 15 euros in crypto currencies, according to communication from the hacker group that the NOS has seen. Customers and employees have until October 2 to pay.
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