ROA: Getting to grips with hard labour
March 16, 2003 Leave a Comment
Maastricht is thriving as a student city but when it comes to finding a job after graduation, is the knowledge of the labour market given by the education institutes really relevant or is it a case of pot luck?
An institution has been aiming to come up with answers to this question since 1986: ROA (the [...]
MUNDO: Training the developing world
March 16, 2003 Leave a Comment
Conceiving big training projects, from Kenya, Nicaragua and Mozambique to Vietnam, El Salvador and Uganda in a small room in Maastricht is all in a day’s work for MUNDO.
Founded in 1997, its mission is “to create an atmosphere where people can learn from each other through academic co-operation across the world”.
MUNDO (Maastricht University Centre for [...]
Madness in Mestreech: a Carnival lexicon
March 12, 2003 3 Comments
The three-day annual festival of carnival is about to start, but its traditions may still be a bit of a mystery to foreigners. Here is a lexicon to understand one of Maastricht’s biggest events. [continued...]
