The German company BioNTech and its partner Pfizer have announced recently that a vaccine candidate for the coronavirus was more than 90 percent effective. What is perhaps as striking as the vaccine new itself is that the media frenzy surrounding the German scientists — Dr. Ugur Sahin and Dr. Ozlem…

I first heard about critical race theory (CRT) from an American colleague at an academic conference in Germany a few years ago. At that time, I was still interpreting the data I collected during interviews with Turkish origin ethnic minority students in Belgium on their experiences of diversity, contact and…

The extensive public reactions to the leaked video of teachers at Erasmus college in Brussels discussing oral exams of students and to the Constitutional Court decision that permits headscarf ban in higher education show that there is still much work to achieve equity and inclusion in Flemish higher education. Universities…