Connection is the magic word during the first lessons

Finally study programmes have been allowed to physically host lessons on campus. Connecting first-year students, who usually don’t see each other ‘live’ for more than a few hours per week, seems to be a key matter. How to get first-year stu ...

Corona-dashboard monitors the number of students

Windesheim is monitoring the number of students and employees who have logged in at the servers via the WiFi access points. If that number is too large, security has to go and see what is going on. The divisions IVT (ICT Operational service ...

Hardly any lessons in the evening

Study programs schedule evening hours only as a fallback option The study programs faced a difficult dilemma when scheduling education starting september: at the ‘1,5 meter campus’ it ís possible to teach up to half of the class ...

‘We need to find ways to persevere’

While the majority of society is going to back to normal in some manner, the universities of applied sciences are up for a big challenge. Executive Board member Inge Grimm hopes to maintain the ‘drive’ of the past months. From physical cont ...

Internationalisation has many faces

Travelling is (right now) not an option. Rob Maat of the International office is working hard on developing different kinds of internationalisation. For Rob Maat, the crisis started around November, December of last year. That’s when the fi ...

Home again: ‘After dinner we play Settlers of Catan’

Quarantined in your student room or back to your parents’ house? Many students choose the latter. But being ‘home’ fulltime at your mum and dad’s again takes some getting used to. Wenda Drenth, a third-year student of the teacher education ...

Birthdays in times of Corona

No one visiting you, no super fun parties and no three kisses on the cheek. Whoever has his birthday in these weeks of self-isolation, keeping one-and-a-half-meter distance and social distancing, has little to celebrate. Four Windesheim stu ...

Daniël creates face masks for homecare

Windesheim is closed until the summer and there isn’t much to do in terms of leisure activities in the coming months. Meanwhile, former student, Daniël van den Bos decided to help healthcare organisations: he and his friends sewed dozens of ...

Many reactions from students after call for help

A call up from communication staff member Dennis de Bruin received a large number of replies. He asked Windesheim students to help future first-year-students choose their study course. Because of the Corona crisis, there will be no open day ...

‘Het Vliegende Paard gives everything a chance’

Student café Het Vliegende Paard in Zwolle celebrates its 25th birthday. Manager Dennis Kaatman looks back on the past. “When I got here about 20 years ago, Het Vliegende Paard (in English ‘The Flying Horse’) had just been closed for a year ...

Bart plays League of Legends at high level

Bart Wessels is a Windesheim student who makes a couple of hundred euros a month by gaming from his room. He regularly gets flown abroad for large tournaments. He plays League of Legends at a very high level. “I can see the mistakes my oppo ...

TEST: The best ladies’ toilets of Windesheim

Which toilet is the most comfortable to use and which is the best one to fix your makeup? WIN investigated and visited six toilets. Building D, first floor  This is an outright example of an old-fashioned “camping toilet”. ...

A new face for old main buildings

Building B and C of the Windesheim campus in Zwolle will receive a major facelift soon. The renovation works will start this summer and will go on until the end of 2021.  The renovation of the 35-year-old buildings is comparable to the ...

Mock fight

Strength, speed, technique, athletic ability, expression and explosiveness. It all comes together in Kata, a form of Karate that Matthew Martens (fourth-year Information and Communication Technology student) has been practising from an earl ...

‘Will that robot be taking care of us later?’

Sabine Reinaardus teacher of the Social Work study program wants students of Social Work to become familiar with robots. Student Niek Stegeman took robot Zora with him to a nursing home. It is an ordinary Wednesday in nursing home Margareth ...

The most delicious budget Hotchpotch

A microwave. That is all you need for a steaming plate of mashed potato based stew (hotchpotch) with kale. WIN sought out the best. ‘Lekker&Snel’ (ALDI)This one doesn’t live up to its name (tasty and quick.) After waiting for 12 (!) min ...

Searching for chic

You want to look good these next few days. Preferably for little money. That is why WIN sent students, Melissa, Kornelia and Roos, to a store full of second hand designer clothes. Melissa, a first-year student, and Kornelia and Roos, both t ...