Leiden University is to have a unique expertise centre on Asia. This centre, the Asian Library, will hold extremely rare Asian collections and offer new opportunities for teaching and research.

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The European Union can only continue to exist if each member state becomes impassioned with the spirit of compromise. These were the words of Herman van Rompuy, departing President of the European Council, on 10 October during Leiden University’s Europe Lecture.

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Leiden University, in 64th position, is the highest-ranking Dutch University in the Times Higher Education Rankings (THE). Leiden has risen by three places since last year. THE ranks universities on teaching, research and innovation.

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How does language work and how do we learn a language? The more we know about language, the better we can understand how people interpret the world in words. Roberta D'Alessandro carries out research on the architecture of language. There is now a dossier about her work online.

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The greatest threat to the North Korean regime is not the outside world but its own developing private market and the growing frictions at the top. This was the argument put forward by North Korean exile Jang Jin-sung in his lecture in Leiden.

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A robot that whips up a cup of coffee or tea in a jiffy is no longer the realm of science fiction. Psychologists and computer scientists have developed a model that codes how people perform these activities. The model is 500 times faster than earlier programmes.

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