Cost of Living

9 March 2021 | Category: Education, Housing, Student life

Updated on: 8 March 2021 For many international students, the cost of studying is a big concern. It is wise to plan ahead and make a financial plan for your stay in Wageningen. This article helps get you started.   How much does a banana cost? Maybe not the first…

My Road to Wageningen

2 February 2021 | Category: Education, Student life

My moments of doubt about “Education is the key to success”…. ????? My name is Samuel Agyekum, and I hail from Kumasi, one of the largest cities in Ghana. I studied Bachelor of Arts Geography at the University of Education, Winneba. As a young talent born in one of the…

Indoor Gardening 101

7 December 2020 | Category: Tips and advice for studying in Wageningen

“Gardening adds years to your life and adds life to your years.” As someone who just started doing gardening and has difficulty in distinguishing the plants’ names at first (who’s with me?), I recently realized that gardening does add ‘life’ to your daily-life. Particularly at this moment, bringing something green…

Looking for accommodation

25 June 2020 | Category: Housing

Of course Coronavirus left us with so many questions. Next year will go online? Will the university do all the courses online? DO I have to move to The Netherlands? It has been almost 3 months since the World Health Organization declared coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency of international…

Student Experience: Joining Free EdX Courses

22 June 2020 | Category: Education

Have you ever heard of MOOC? It stands for Massive Open and Online Courses. As Wageningen Students, we can get free access to several courses with different topics, from food technology to animal sciences. These courses are developed by Professors from Wageningen University & Research and are based on the…

Moving forward – What can we expect?

6 June 2020 | Category: Education

As normalcy returns slowly throughout the globe, we look to answer ‘What next?’.  While the answer to this is extremely subjective, this blog will hopefully give current and prospective students an outline of what WUR is planning. All through the crisis, as students we received continuous updates and support from…

Celebrating Pride month

You can’t spell Solidarity and Pride without the I. In the same way, solidarity cannot be fulfilled with just an I. To commemorate the Pride month that is celebrated during the month of June every year, I decided to document my thoughts on celebrating this community.    Pride Parades are…

Application deadline is approaching!

wageningen-university-forum-building
31 May 2020 | Category: Education

All master’s and online master’s programmes start in September 2020. Therefore, it is important to know that the application deadline is nearly here. Even though coronavirus has caused many difficulties, we will overcome this, and the studies will still go on. We will also uptake you next week about next…