SDG 4: Quality Education

How can science contribute to better education for everyone? Our educational research looks beyond the borders of disciplines. The United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's) are a major guiding principle for us.

How we are working towards better education

'We just add one more chair'
Incluusion gives refugees the opportunity to enrol in university degree programmes, so they can continue the academic careers that they started in their home countries.
Academic education for refugees
Meet the professor
Each spring, over 140 professors get on their bikes to head over to primary schools throughout the city of Utrecht. Pupils aged 10–12 can then fire off a barrage of questions at them, right there in their own classroom.
Learning about science
Buddy programme Debuut
Debuut, a Utrecht University programme, pairs primary schoolchildren whose close family did not study at a university with students. Meet buddies Behnaz Wasighi and Roshi Flippo.
About Debuut
Remote teaching
Everywhere, teachers are looking for ways to continue their teaching remotely. We like to share the knowledge and experience we have built up for different types of teaching.
Possibilities and resources

Science meets education

Elma Blom
'Migrant children are taught in a language in which they are less proficient, while their native language knowledge and skills remain unutilised. This may form a barrier to participation in education. How can we solve this problem?'

Multilingualism in education
Making science accessable to primary education
Utrecht Science Hub
Rens van de Schoot and Kimberley Lek
How can we better predict the appropriate level of secondary education for primary school pupils? Statisticians Rens and Kimberley investigated this question and developed an app to support teachers.
Predicting success in education