Tag: reading
Free library card for teachers and no more fines for youth: ‘Reading pleasure must return to Utrecht’
With the new plans, both Eerenberg and Carasso hope to secure the future of public facilities in the city, with additional investments in neighborhood libraries in Leidsche Rijn, Kanaleneiland, Overvecht…
the president returns the new Constitution to the Assembly for a second reading
President Faure Gnassingbé ordered this Friday evening that the new Constitution voted on Monday be subject to a second reading in the National Assembly. According to the president, it is…
War-torn Israel’s government threatens to fall – thanks to thousands of Haredi Jews who avoid military service by reading the Torah | Foreign countries
Haredi Jews can avoid military service on the basis of religious studies. This angers Israel, where military service applies to all Jewish women and men. Prime Minister in Israel Benjamin…
Adjusted closing time and extra security: HU is taking measures regarding Holocaust reading
On Trajectum, the independent journalistic platform with HU news, it is reported that patrolling police officers, extra security and hermetically sealed buildings are part of the security measures. Signs in…
Global or syllabic, the persistent debate over reading teaching methods
News Published on 02/03/2024 at 7:01 p.m. Updated 02/03/2024 at 7:01 p.m. Reading 3 min. While around 11% of young French people cannot read correctly, a parliamentary report has just…
Two minutes a day, really? The truth about the French and reading – L’Express
“Know that the French only read two minutes a day!” exclaimed Alba Ventura, RTL editorialist, in the morning of January 29, referring to a “catastrophic” situation. France would thus arrive…
Is reading sexy again? Book sales are rising again, but Dutch books are lagging behind
43 million books, that is of course a lot. Yet it is only 0.1 percent higher than last year. This growth is entirely due to foreign-language books, especially English. Dutch-language…
How to share the pleasure of reading around you?
How to make children and adults want to read? What if the solution to reading better was to take up the pen? With Alexandre Jardin, author of Reading for Dummiespublished…
From the perilous adventures of a missing parrot to the surprise of a cashier-less Aldi: this is what you enjoyed reading this year
An observation that was surprising to our own editors: a futuristic, cashier-less Aldi branch right in the city center of Utrecht – not a city with low real estate rents…