March 2010
Healthcare allowance: apply before 1 April, using English toolkit
Did you have public healthcare insurance the Netherlands in 2009 and was your income below € 32,502? If so, it is likely that you are eligible for compensation for your insurance costs. This compensation is called healthcare allowance. If you wish to apply for healthcare allowance for 2009, remember that the closing date for your application is 1 April. Using the Euraxess English-language healthcare allowance toolkit will simplify the application process.
Employee or not: what’s the fuss all about?
Are PhD candidates who receive a scholarship students, or are they employees? This dispute, which has quietly plagued the Dutch research sector for years, recently flared up again following a lawsuit filed against the University of Groningen (RUG) by trade union ABVAKABO FNV and several PhD scholarship recipients. So, what’s the fuss all about? And what’s it to you?
Accelerate your career at BCF Event
On 20 May 2010 BCF Event will take place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. BCF Event is the largest career fair in the Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg) for highly-educated professionals (BSc level and higher) focusing on the sectors life sciences, chemistry, food & pharma.
Column: A good dance instructor
Society sets the wrong priorities. I mean: researchers don’t think they are about to discover the source of all knowledge. Not in the slightest. We all have rather more modest ambitions. We dig up the earth, we stir substances in laboratories, we nose around in archives, and we sit at our desks pondering - all in the hope of advancing science just that little bit further. And yet what we want most is to be left in peace
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