Category: Politics

On World Toilet Day, the National Student Union organised an action for more gender-neutral bathrooms in universities. The UvA lavatories also got a makeover, courtesy of the ASVA. 

Transparency urges politics and political actors to be open about their doings and decision-making processes. An ideal that is so old and important but somehow not very much applied in UvA’s politics. But why is that the case?

Without anonymous grading, we simply can’t expect to receive fair grades, according to political science student Euclid Dochery. He started an initiative to get the political science department of the UvA to recognize this, but is yet to find success.

Politics outside of the UvA face the ongoing struggle to grant a proportional number of female representatives in relation to society. Further, in the workforce, women tend to be underrepresented though how does this play out at our university?

Did you know that you can make a change and have a voice in the university’s politics? No? Well, keep on reading! Not many students know that they can actively participate––now and in the future––by joining one of UvA’s councils and voting for representatives. But, what kind of institutions are there?

To proctor or not to proctor? That is the biggest question the University of Amsterdam has to face. After a failed lawsuit against the UvA’s decision to use the Proctorio software, this year’s Central Student Council (CSR) looks at the issue of proctoring once again.