Within less than two weeks the UT’s Bastille building will once again be equipped with a lunch facility. Coffee Corner Bastille will open on Monday 22 August. Besides freshly squeezed fruit juices and various hot beverages, grilled Panini sandwiches, brownies and a wide range of other choices will be on offer. The Coffee Corner will be located in the former Union Bar, to the left of the Bastille’s main entrance. The location is a temporary one; later in the academic year the café is expected to move to another premise.
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Blues night
The Grolsch Summer Sounds Nix Blues night takes place in Enschede on Thursday 11 August from 7:30pm onwards. The evening features various blues, soul and jazz performances. Musicians include Woody & the Blue Packers, Cuban Heels, Australian blues singer Matt Taylor and British blues guitarist Todd Sharpville. Most performances take stage at the Old Market, but from 11pm into late in the night, there will also be small-scale performances in nearby pubs. Entry is free of charge. Surf to Blues Enschede for further information. The Nix Blues night is the fourth festival night in the Grolsch Summer Sounds series.
DutchMega-U
What happens when you take Leiden University and add to it Rotterdam Erasmus University and Delft University of Technology? You get BIG. Discussions between the Executive Boards of the three universities are underway to create a ‘mega’ university over a period of six to eight years. Reports suggest after the merger, the ‘new’ Leiden University would have as many as 55,000 students and more than 11,500 staff. A mega university could attract foreign students to the country which now receives more than 50,000 international students every year. Most foreign students studying in the Netherlands come from Germany, China, Belgium, Spain and France. For more info, see Dutch Mega University.
