Tagged: student wellbeing

A winter market to promote student wellbeing

13 / 01 / 2023

Four study organisations are organising a winter market, with an ice skating rink and food trucks, this Monday at the O&O square. Using funds from the National Education Programme, the associations aim to improve the wellbeing of UT students.

Opinion

Praise for the current generation of students

30 / 06 / 2022

Programme director Alma Schaafstal sent in this op-ed, after seeing the campaign of study association Sirius. ‘I see students caring for students, organizing it themselves brilliantly with a lot of support from others.’

News

10 / 02 / 2022

New well-being course for students

Because of high levels of stress and mental health issues among students, UT researchers developed a well-being course for students. Ed de Bruin and Marjolein Prenger from the department of Psychology, Health and Technology ran the first pilot last year and now they are aiming to implement the course UT-wide.

News

Student wellbeing during Covid-19

‘UT students did okay in a bad situation’

A ‘quick scan of student wellbeing during COVID-19’ was conducted at the UT in April 2021. Its results show that most University of Twente students have been doing ‘okay’ and were able to adapt to the negative situation. However, they miss social cohesion. ‘For the group that started in 2020 community building activities need to be organized.’