Buurtzorg structurally gives nurses and carers a better salary
All ten thousand nurses and carers of home care organization Buurtzorg receive a structurally better salary. Director Jos de Blok will place them all in a higher scale as of…
Olympians banned from taking laptops and phones into Beijing for fear of surveillance
Dutch athletes who travel to the Olympic Winter Games in China at the end of this month must leave their own telephones and laptops at home. This urgent advice from…
As long as mountains keep a little distance they can’t hurt
We went to the mountains. As long as they keep a little distance, mountains can do no harm. My traveling party could tell them apart with the naked eye, but…
Omikron in ‘foreland’ Denmark: relative calm in hospitals, concerns about absenteeism
Do the Danish corona figures have a predictive value for the Netherlands? After an unprecedented peak in omikron infections, the good news is coming from the hospitals, where it remains…
Johnson under fire again for lockdown drink with a hundred guests in the garden of official residence
Boris Johnson has again been discredited over a ‘lockdown party’ at 10 Downing Street. Several British media have received an old email in which a private secretary of the Prime…
The police brutality during the corona demonstration is fundamentally different from the violence against George Floyd
The blow to a head in The Hague cannot simply be compared with the knee on George Floyd’s neck. Agents are executors of a policy that is made elsewhere. Michael…
Killing Omikron the hard Chinese way, it’s probably too late for that
The Chinese have been urged to avoid foreign athletes, but that will no longer keep the omikron variant outside the door. Two cities, Tianjin and Henan, have discovered the first…
It is painful that the NPO has the misunderstanding that classical music needs Dutch people
Arno HaijtemaJanuary 10, 2022, 12:51 With some zapping on the channels of the public broadcaster, three hours of classical music programs could be viewed on Sunday. Unfortunately, the same public…
Chances of class cancellations greater than ever, what does this mean for the education sector?
Primary and secondary education have reopened after students had a longer Christmas break.Image Ramon van Flymen / ANP Do many schools have to deal with school cancellations after the Christmas…
Opinion: Let higher education surf on waves of corona
Students at the Science Park of the University of Amsterdam.Image Jeroen Jumelet / ANP In her essay ‘From the pedestal’ (V, 7/1) Marjolijn van Heemstra describes the constant stretching of…
