FMG Lecturer of the Year Milio van de Kamp: ’A lot of first-generation students have difficulty connecting with many of their fellow students and lecturers, who frequently come from well-established middle-class backgrounds’
FMG Lecturer of the Year Milio van de Kamp: 'A lot of first-generation students have difficulty connecting with many of their fellow students and lecturers, who frequently come from well-established middle-class backgrounds' - FMG lecturer Milio van de Kamp is fighting inequality 30 May 2022 Last Wednesday, lecturer in Interdisciplinary Social Science Milio van de Kamp, was voted Lecturer of the Year of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Science (FMG) during the 'Hour of Education'. He focuses in particular on opportunities for students who are the first members of their family to study at a university, also referred to as 'first-generation students'. 'You can easily feel like an outsider, or inferior, because you have a different way of talking and thinking than most other students.' If anyone knows how hard it can be for first-generation students to manage at a university, it is Milio van Kamp. He wasn't just the first in his family to get further than secondary school. He was also born into a poor family who lived in a house without gas and electricity. His school career was quite bumpy. He basically went through all the various levels of the school system before ultimately ending up at university - a place where he felt like he didn't belong for quite some time.
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