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Online behavior of international students

´Although international students move geographically, they do not move digitally,´ says Shanton Chang, a specialist on online behavior and social media from the University of Melbourne. He is currently conducting a research at the University of Twente to determine how international students use their social networks and seek information when abroad.
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Interesting, entertaining and exhausting

Today is the last day of the first edition of CuriousU. This unique summer school in festival style, organized at the UT campus, welcomed 180 participants of 28 nationalities from all over the world. How did they enjoy their week at the University of Twente and is there anything they would change about the experience?
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International students: UT top in its own country

The UT recorded the highest score among all Dutch universities in the International Student Barometer, an annual satisfaction survey among international students. Compared to other education establishments in Europe and the rest of the world, there is 'room for improvement'.
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Speaking English in 2018? Small majority says yes

Opinions are divided on UT’s intention to change the language of communication of this university to English. A small majority of the voters (52 percent) on a poll on this website agrees with this plan; 48 percent doesn’t like English to be the official language of communication.
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UT student taken by two strange men

The international UT student Adedapo experienced a horrible incident after his first arrival to the Netherlands. After he arrived to Schiphol, he was taken by two men who took his belongings and tried to extort money out of him. Adedapo shares the story with UT Nieuws in order to raise awareness and warn others.
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Global and context-specific human touch

The theme of this year's dies natalis was ‘internationalization’, with the title ‘We are the world’. The dies natalis lecture titled ´from geo to global´ was presented by Tom Veldkamp, dean of the faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC).
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Exploring the culture of Java

The annual Indonesian Evening took place on the 21st of November 2014. The main theme of the event was ´Exploring Java´ and the whole program was therefore focused on the culture of this Indonesian island. Visitors could try to play angklung, a musical instrument, and there were various dance and music performances.
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Let´s GO! Study abroad fair

The Bastille building hosted Let´s GO! Study abroad fair on the 20th of November 2014, where UT students could learn more about the possibilities of studying abroad. The whole event, organized by the International Office, was an example of the UT´s general strategy to become more international.
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Talented students sign scholarship contracts

The University of Twente Scholarship is a scholarship awarded to excellent international students, who are applying for a Master program at the UT. This year the scholarship was given to twenty foreign students, who all met up on the 18th of November 2014 to sign their scholarship contracts and share their experience from their first few months in the Netherlands.
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Second-year students surprised: programme no longer in Dutch

It came as a surprise to upcoming second-year Communication Studies students: yesterday, they received the news that after the summer holidays, their programme will be predominantly in English. ‘We should have communicated this better,’ agrees Menno de Jong, Programme Director.
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Buddy program starting up

Many international students from all over the world arrive to the UT every year. Even though coming to study and live in a foreign country is exciting, it can also have its difficulties. For these reasons, Student Union of the University of Twente organizes so called buddy program. This week the Student Union organized a meeting as a start-up for the next season.
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Students association offers free Arabic language course

For the first time at University of Twente, an independent student association takes upon itself teaching a foreign language on campus. UT-Muslims Students Association has recently taken an initiative of offering Arabic language courses to interested members of the UT community.
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