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 The “country” lunch, an event organized by Saxion’s International Office has been suspended due to lack of participation. Chris van de Borne, Director, International Office told Sax Magazine, “The gatherings were valuable to the participants but unless we have another country to discuss, amongst the different academies, we have decided to stop the initiative”.
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Sax-TV asked students and staff last week to spread the Christmas joy on camera. They were also asked who the students wanted to share Christmas dinner with. Even though parts of the clip are in Dutch, you’ll enjoy watching it anyway.
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 A large Christmas tree is now adorning the central entrance of the Haagse Hogeschool. After last week’s controversial decision to not put up a Christmas tree, students decided to buy a tree themselves. The reason for not having a Christmas tree this year had to do with the fact that the school wanted to protect its multicultural image.
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 It pays to be a college town. Professors, staff, and renters spend their money at local retailers which translates into a gross revenue of roughly twenty-five thousand euro per student.
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 At all three Saxion locations classroom occupancy rates fall short. This according to a investigation by Twynstra Consultancy. To facilitate the increase in students, two pilot projects have been started to research how to facilitate the influx of students, and what the most efficient ways are to increase occupancy rates.
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 Students, staff and visitors will not find a Christmas tree in the lobby of the “Haagse Hogeschool” (College in The Hague, the Netherlands) this year. A Christmas tree is considered a symbol of a Christian celebration and a decorated Christmas tree in the school’s lobby would not convey the message of a culturally diverse institution.
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 To distinguish themselves from the other higher education institutions, Saxion has decided to carefully inspect and follow the educational route of our international student population. The plan is to follow the student from the first moment they have contact with Saxion, up until the time that the newly graduated student returns to his or her homeland.
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 The Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics recently published a study about virginity in its youth monitor 2009. It turns out that many of the male college students between the ages of seventeen and eighteen are virgins. Two-thirds of this age group has not yet had sexual intercourse.
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 Fifteen years, that is how long a 24-year old German student is not allowed to ride his bicycle. If he does get caught riding his steel horse, he can expect a fine of 25 Euros.
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 A recent report published by the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education states that colleges and universities worldwide have added 49 foreign campus branches, bringing the total to at least 162 overseas branches.
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