UvA Kieswijzer

All lectures should be available online for everyone

Vrijmoedige Studentenpartij

Fully agree

020 party

Fully agree

020 believes that lectures should be made available online as it allows for flexibility for students with disabilities, jobs, care duties and other commitments.

INTER

Fully agree

INTER believes online-available lectures would make the university more inclusive towards students with learning disabilities who are disrupted in class and cannot get as high of an educational experience as their peers. This also helps students who, for illness, work or any other inconvenience have to miss a lecture. This can be done either close to exam week or right after the lecture in person took place, depending on the course. Moreover, the infrastructure to provide this service is already present, incurring no additional costs to the UvA, which can make the implementation of this process not only feasible but also as rapid as possible.

De Vrije Student

Fully agree

DVS believes it is important to promote students' freedom and ensure free access to education. By making all lectures available online, students have more flexibility to decide when and where to study. This is especially helpful for students with jobs or other obligations. Additionally, online access to lectures can increase educational accessibility for students who are geographically limited, for example due to distance or mobility issues. Offering courses online can also help students who are unable to find housing in or around Amsterdam.

UvaSociaal

Fully agree

UvASociaal advocates for hybrid education and digital accessibility so that students who cannot attend in person (due to illness, disabilities, or other responsibilities) can still participate in education.

Activistenpartij UvA

Fully agree

Access to education for all students is crucial. This means to give equal chances to all students, despite their personal or socio-economic circumstances. Giving access to lecture recordings helps working students, but also everyone who cannot attend lectures due to personal circumstances, like (chronic) illness, mental health reasons, etc. to ensure that education is accessible for everyone.

The University must prioritise active diversity policies and include decolonial perspectives in the curriculum

020 party

Agree

020 strives towards more inclusion. Decolonizing the course content is an important part of improving education in the university as it will help remove long standing biases that exist in many courses. Furthermore, it will encourage students to question their own views and consider those that they perhaps have not yet been exposed to. With the current threatening political trend of the Netherlands towards higher education, we believe this is most crucial than ever to be upheld.

Vrijmoedige Studentenpartij

Fully disagree

UvaSociaal

Fully agree

UvASociaal explicitly calls for decolonising the curriculum, improving inclusive policies, and elevating marginalised voices in education to ensure equity.

De Vrije Student

Disagree

The Vrije Student stands for equal opportunities and selection based on quality, not identity. Students want to be assessed on their knowledge and skills, not their background or gender. In recent years, the University of Amsterdam’s diversity policy has increasingly leaned on ideologically driven identity thinking, where the focus is no longer on individual merit. This can lead to polarization, undermines scientific principles such as objectivity and falsifiability, and puts pressure on open debate. Diversity can be enriching, but it should stem from equal treatment and academic quality, not be enforced through quotas or curriculum reforms without broad scientific justification. Decolonial perspectives can certainly offer valuable insights within certain fields, such as anthropology or history, but are not necessarily relevant or applicable to all disciplines.

Activistenpartij UvA

Fully agree

While some programmes already include decolonial perspectives in their curriculum, this is still varying a lot between faculties. We are fighting for a decolonial society, inside, and outside of the university context. This means that we are also aiming for a decolonial curriculum. This will not only help to showcase societal inequalities to further combat them, but it will also enrich students' education by tackling biases evoked by WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialised, rich, and democratic) approaches.

Agree

DVS believes that menstrual products should be accessible to everyone. Menstruation is not a choice, and no one should have to go without essential hygiene products due to financial constraints. While providing these products should ideally be a responsibility of the government, this is unfortunately not yet the case. Therefore, DVS finds it reasonable for the UvA to step in and offer them in the meantime. The cost to the university is relatively low, while the positive impact on students’ well-being can be significant.

UvaSociaal

INTER

Agree

Academic freedom is a core principle of our institution, valuable and crucial for our education. Indeed, it needs our support as well as critical analysis. Academic freedom protecting open inquiry, critical thinking from outside influence is a core principle and requirement for good academics. At the same time, we recognize that UvA already has strong legal protections in place. The notion of academic freedom therefore sometimes be misused to legitimize harmful or discriminatory views. INTER supports a balanced approach that defends academic freedom while upholding the university’s commitment to inclusivity and respect.

The UvA should invest in more accessibility for students with functional limitations, such as guiding lines for people with visual impairment, as well as sensitivity towards these students

INTER

Fully agree

Investing in accessibility for students with functional limitations is essential for creating an inclusive and equitable learning environment at the UvA. Measures like guiding lines for the visually impaired and fostering sensitivity among staff and peers ensure that all students can navigate campus, access resources, and participate fully in academic and social life, which upholds the university’s commitment to diversity and equal opportunity.

UvaSociaal

Fully agree

As UvASociaal, we strongly support greater investment in accessibility for students with functional limitations. Ensuring that campuses include guiding lines for visually impaired students, accessible learning materials, and a culture of sensitivity and awareness is not optional—it is essential. Accessibility is one of our four core pillars, and we believe that every student deserves to navigate university life with dignity, independence, and equal opportunity. By removing physical and structural barriers, the UvA can create a truly inclusive environment where all students can thrive.

Activistenpartij UvA

Fully agree

The university should be an inclusive learning space for everyone. To achieve this goal a lot still has to be done. For example: The brand new REC-P building which does not offer barrier free access to all floors. Also when looking at access to educational materials for students with visual impairments the university needs to do more! The UvA has been dangling at the bottom in the ranking on students’ experience with accessibility, as the Nationale Studenten Enquete has shown, and this has to change.

Vrijmoedige Studentenpartij

Agree

020 party

Fully agree

020 believes that it is the university's responsibility to invest in more accessibility for all students with functional limitations and sensitivity towards these students because everyone must have a right to study and learn in an environment that acknowledges and supports their diverse needs. Furthermore, students must be able to move freely and safely on campus

De Vrije Student

Vrijmoedige Studentenpartij

Fully disagree

According to the VSP, quality and excellence must prevail here.

More investment is needed in interdisciplinary education (providing students with more than just one perspective on a particular subject, such as honours, PPLE or IIS programs)