Sensor publishes international edition!

21-05-2012 by Sensor

The next edition of Sensor will be about the International HAN-student. In English of course…
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HAN-student wins HR Thesis

18-05-2012 by Sensor

Anne-Marije Buckens, recently graduated from the HAN, won the HR Thesis prize. She wrote an inter-esting graduation thesis about employees aged over fifty on the labour market.
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Erasmus scholarship still very popular!

17-05-2012 by Sensor

Last year, approximately 230.000 students used the Erasmus scholarship. With this fact, the scholar-ship during studying abroad isn’t getting less popular.
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Nijmegen University wants to party!

16-05-2012 by Sensor

On 24 May, the annual Diesfestival is planned! This party is organized by our neighbours, the Radboud University. The programme is really good! Why don’t we have a party at the HAN?
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One in three students has own conveniences

16-05-2012 by Sensor

You would think that at least every student has to share the house’s conveniences with their house-mates. Still, at least 35 per cent of the students living away from home have their own toilet, kitchen and bathroom
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Enschede University warns students for bacteria!

15-05-2012 by Sensor

The University in Enschede has contacted the organization of the annual Batavierenrace (running contest for students) and warned them that approximately 8000 students could be infected with the legionella bacteria.
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Students clone Twitter

27-04-2011 @ 10:39:49 by Marijn Hondorp

Three students from the Univeristy of Gent (Belgium) have developed a clone of Twitter: ‘Yelper’. Yelper has 141 available symbols, whereas Twitter only has 140.

Tweet and Yelp

To avoid complications, the students chose for a different programming language. Another difference is that ‘Yelper’ is only used for educational purposes. And the name Yelp? It refers to the English verb ‘to yelp’, which is the sound of a fox.

No competition with Twitter

The students Computer and Information Science announced not wanting to compete with Twitter. ‘With this project we want to show others how to create their own social network, and offer them a project in which as many different technologies as possible get a chance,’ the students told metrotime.be.

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