08 / 02 / 2021 | Photo by: FRANS NIKKELS

Let it snow

Waking up to a campus covered in white is not an everyday sight to behold. Well protected by winter clothing and armed with sleds and snowboard, campus residents created a proper show in the snow. Photographer Frans Nikkels shot this picture series.

In the forests of Drienerlo the chains close late at night Nobody is allowed to go out anymore, stay indoors and sit tight. Those were some of the lyrics of the introduction song sung by first-year students in 1966. The Technical University of Applied Sciences Twente began its third year with a few hundred men and a handful of women.

21 / 05 / 2020

‘Campus is the new monastery’

Every university and major company seems to have a campus nowadays. As the first campus university in the Netherlands, the University of Twente was a forerunner in that regard. What makes a ‘real’ campus? And why has it become such a widespread phenomenon? ‘It’s like a modern cloister but without the religion.’

21 / 05 / 2020

‘De campus is het nieuwe klooster’

Het lijkt tegenwoordig alsof elke universiteit en elk groot bedrijf een eigen campus heeft. Als de eerste campusuniversiteit van Nederland was de Universiteit Twente een voorloper. Wat heeft een ‘echte’ campus nodig? Waarom is het zo'n populair fenomeen geworden? ‘Het lijkt op een modern klooster, maar dan zonder de religie.’