Education Institute
Computing and Information Sciences

Faculty guidelines for employing student assistants

In general, student assistants can only be employed for assisting in bachelor courses. For master courses, faculty guidelines state that assistance should in principle be provided by PhD assistants. However, occasionally the nature of the work is such that student assistants can be employed. For bachelor courses with tutorial sessions, the faculty guidelines state that one student assistant can be assigned per group of 20 students, with a given maximum number of hours to be written per week. If the nature of the course is different, the allocated hours or numbers of student assistants can occasionally be adapted.

Planning and recruiting student assistants

Based on the estimated number of course participants, the faculty guidelines for the number of student assistants per group, and the hours written in previous years, the education coordinator makes a first prognosis of the number of student assistants and hours per course, and informs the course coordinator. When the estimate seems appropriate, the course coordinator recruits the desired number of student assistants; within the course total, they may also decide to employ fewer student assistants and give them more hours each. When the number of course participants is final at the start of the course, the course prognosis is checked and the amount of hours than can be written is adjusted if needed.

Administrative procedures

Course coordinators send the names of student assistants to the administrative support team of the Education coordinators, a.k.a. coord.support-science@ru.nl. They will arrange contracts. Please note that it takes longer to arrange contracts for students who need a working permit. Also, there is a maximum of hours that such students are allowed to work.

Courses

The courses that employ student assistants are listed below. Course details and coordinators can be found in the latest version of the prospectus.