Who is still going to study in Donald Trump’s United States? American higher education is seeing a 17 percent drop in international student enrolment.
In addition to all the developments in Delft, work on Campus Rotterdam is continuing at full speed. The Executive Board has hired an external consultancy firm and the programme team will move into the Groot Handelsgebouw (literally the big trade building) in Rotterdam.
The Dutch Senate has approved the supplementary education budget for 2025, which includes more than 400 million euros in additional cuts. A motion by D66 and others to scrap these cuts was rejected.
It has emerged that an Israeli professor with ties to two Dutch universities has also been deployed in Gaza. In light of this revelation, the University of Groningen has decided to suspend its collaboration with the academic.
All Dutch universities are objecting to the scrapping of the starter and incentive grants. Even TU Delft is joining in, although in April it did not feel legal steps were necessary.
Researchers from Maastricht won the Ig Nobel Peace Prize Thursday night for their discovery that alcohol can help people speak another language, particularly when it comes to pronunciation.
Universities and universities of applied sciences must pay for part of the inflation out of their own pockets. Other than that, there are no new cuts to higher education and research in the 2026 national budget.
“Unfortunately, people in the Netherlands seem to be increasingly at odds with each other,” said King Willem-Alexander in his Speech from the Throne. Not only on the streets or online, but also at universities and in the political arena in The Hague.
The campaign ‘We claim the night’ raised half a million euros within a few days and led to events in many cities. On Friday, it will be Delft’s turn.
