Eén dorp in academisch Nederland houdt dapper stand. Waar anders dan in Leiden, bewaakt één hoogleraar de opleiding van zijn studenten als een leeuw.

Do you believe that everybody should have fun or that only a few people should have fun? “This is what it means to be entertained in the United States of America in 2026. Want to have fun? Like, the most fun? Get rich, or die trying.”

De Pindakaasvloer van de pas overleden kunstenaar Wim T. Schippers is weer opgebouwd. Het kunstwerk is vanaf vandaag te zien in het Depot van museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam. Bezoekers moeten wel voorzichtig zijn. In de loop der jaren liep de Pindakaasvloer meerdere keren schade op. Soms was het moedwillig, soms per ongeluk.

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Slecht nieuws voor mensen van omtrek de groteske gemeenschap BMI-uitgedaagden mensen met een hoog gewicht: uit een of ander onderzoek (niet gelezen, in plaats daarvan chips gegeten, red.) blijkt dat jullie minder snel uitgenodigd worden voor een sollicitatiegesprek, en als dat toch lukt minder snel aan worden genomen. Ook wordt jullie werk negatiever beoordeeld, verdienen jullie minder geld en maken jullie minder snel promotie, dit omdat (werkelijk geen idee, zit nu dropjes te eten, red.), of iets dergelijks. Daarom, bindend advies aan jonge mensen: vreet niet te veel, want straks heeft solliciteren amper nut, verdien je geen ruk, heb je geen perspectief op verbetering, en kan je eigenlijk alleen nog maar bij GeenStijl terecht. 

Afijn, zin in chips en dropjes nu.

Students and faculty at Brown University are worried generative AI could harm learning after an economics professor's take-home exam produced results he said pointed to widespread misuse of the technology. In a report [PDF] published by Brown's Generative AI in Teaching and Learning (GAITL) committee, teaching staff say they fear AI could weaken students' cognitive skills and encourage cheating. The committee's report comes days after Brown's Roberto Serrano warned that society "cannot choose to become idiots" – comments made after he all but proved his economics class was cheating on their midterms. Serrano allowed his students to complete their spring midterms outside class, while keeping it closed-book. After the December 2025 shootings at the university, which killed two and injured nine, the professor gave the nod to a home-based exam – the first in his almost 20 years at the university, he told Inside Higher Ed. For students, this meant effectively unlimited time to complete the test, and for Serrano, an opportunity to ramp up the difficulty. He said scores for these exams typically sit in the 65-80 percent range, but students on this test scored an average of 96 percent. Suspecting AI-assisted cheating had played a role, Serrano did not immediately call for a redo, in the hope that he simply had an especially talented cohort, but promised to void the results if students' scores on the final, which was taken under controlled conditions, did not meet similar standards. The average final score was 48.6 percent, a record low. Three students scored zero. Serrano told students that because of the discrepancy in scores, he was increasing the weighting of the final exam to 80 percent from 50 percent, and voiding the midterm results. "We cannot afford to have a society in which a significant fraction of our best young minds think that cheating is OK," he said. "That leads to a declining society, to a failed society… We cannot choose to become idiots." Brown's GAITL committee found that 56 percent of undergrads use AI tools daily or weekly, rising to 67 percent for graduate and medical students, and 85 percent for master's students. Students most often used AI for tasks that help build advanced cognition, such as explaining solutions to complex problems and debugging code. The committee also cited previous research on the topic in both US and UK higher education, finding that around 25 percent of students were submitting assignments completed with the help of AI tools, and the rate is increasing sharply each year. Students appear willing to adopt AI tools, despite many fearing the technology is making them dimmer. Eighty-eight percent of Brown students and 73 percent of graduate/medical students said they were concerned AI could have negative effects on their cognitive capacities. The same concerns were shared by teaching staff, 95 percent of whom feared for students' long-term learning, while four in five expected cognitive capabilities to decline. Pointing to wider research on AI tools' impact on student cognition, the GAITL committee noted a strong body of evidence to support the view that over-reliance could decrease higher-order thinking and metacognition. The research on the matter is still relatively sparse, but it supports the possibility of AI supplementing student cognition, provided it is used with specific guidance from teachers. Brown has since committed to enacting a range of the committee's recommendations, which cover near, medium, and long-term goals. The first steps will involve publishing university guidelines for using AI, and individual departments and faculties will establish their own standards. Further down the line, Brown will invest in improving AI literacy among teaching staff, which it hopes will improve the way in which AI is used – not abused – across the university, and place informed restrictions on how students can use it without compromising their development. ®

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Luchtvaartmaatschappijen moeten boetes kunnen opleggen aan passagiers die zich misdragen, vindt het kabinet. Het is een van de plannen die minister Vincent Karremans (Infrastructuur, VVD) in een Kamerbrief voorstelt om wangedrag in vliegtuigen tegen te gaan. Als de boetes er komen naast strafrechtelijke vervolging, zou dat als "extra afschrikking" kunnen werken.

De VVD-minister ziet een "zorgwekkende stijging" van verstoringen in vliegtuigen, zoals schelden, bedreigen en fysieke agressie. "Helaas betreft dit een wereldwijde trend." In Nederland zou het dagelijks om twee à drie incidenten gaan. Vaak is er alcohol bij betrokken.

Karremans wil ook dat Europese luchtvaartmaatschappijen hun zwarte lijsten kunnen delen om verstorende passagiers te weren, vindt het kabinet. De bedrijven en vakbonden gaan met hulp van zijn ministerie kijken of het mogelijk is om meer informatie uit te wisselen. Als het plan slaagt, zouden passagiers die zich bij de ene luchtvaartmaatschappij misdragen dus ook niet meer welkom zijn bij de andere maatschappij.

KLM en Transavia delen hun zwarte lijsten al enkele jaren, aldus Karremans. Hij heeft recent in een Europees overleg al gepleit voor de gedeelde lijsten van verstorende passagiers, en zegt daarbij gesteund te zijn door zes andere lidstaten.