Should there be a greater English content in the school paper: Univers, regarding the international status that the university is aiming for?

1. Should there be a greater English content in the
school paper: Univers, regarding the international
status that the university is aiming for?
Johnny Au
Kim Hao Dang
K Sonam Lama
Luc van Hagen

2. There are roughly 800 international students

(7%).
There are 350 exchange students.

Univers is mostly in Dutch.


3. 25% of bachelor students to be international.

50% of master students to be international.


4. An online survey (Thesistools) has been used

to gather the data.
6 questions were asked.

132 survey’s have been filled in.


5. Are you a Dutch or an international
student?
7,6
Most of the students are
Dutch. Dutch
International
92,4

6. Do you read the schoolpaper?
A lot of students
13.64
actually read the
25.76
school paper. Only a
Always
small population never
Sometimes
reads it.
Never
60.61

7. Do you have any international
friends?
This shows that most of the
students don’t have
international friends. So
there is segregation 39.39
between the Dutch students Yes
and the international No
students. 60.61

8. How would you rate your English
on a scale from 1 to 5?
50
45
40
35
Most students rate their
30
English as average or
25
above average.
20
15
10
5
0
1 2 3 4 5
Bad Good

9. Should there be greater content in
the English?
Like the university, the students
also support internationalization.
38.64
Yes
No
61.36

10. Would you read the university
paper if it was totally English?
45
It doesn’t really matter 40
whether the Univers is in 35
English or Dutch. Most 30
people will still read it. 25
20
15
10
5
0
1 2 3 4 5
No, I won’t read Yes, I would read

11. Most people will read the Univers if it is

written in English.

12. We had an interview with Ries

Agterberg, chief editor of the Univers.
The actual interview took about 15 minutes.

But due to technical difficulties we could not
show the whole interview.

13. Not enough money for Univers in two

languages.
Not enough authors who can provide quality

English articles.
Follow the university in internationalizing

instead of the other way around.

14. University wants to be more international but

is not willing to pay more money for an
international school paper.
Univers is waiting for the school to be more

international, while the fact is that a school
becomes increasingly more international
when things like the school paper are
available in English.