23 June 2026
What is a university actually for, in a world where access to knowledge is everywhere, but uncertainty keeps growing? Where answers come fast, but the questions that truly matter only get bigger? VU colleagues Prof. Dr Sharda Nandram and Dr Puneet Bindlish sat with that question and turned it into a book.
In conversation with Sharda Nandram, professor of Hindu Spirituality and Society and Chief Diversity Officer at VU Amsterdam, & professor of Business and Spirituality at Nyenrode Business Universiteit, and Puneet Bindlish, assistant professor, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at VU Amsterdam, about their new book Rethinking the University: Harmonizing the Academic Space with Integrating Simplification.