Nibs

The 20-year-old student’s body was found near the dormitory of a medical institute, with numerous stab wounds. He died at the scene. According to preliminary information, several youths armed with knives attacked Vu Ang Tuan, who was a first-year student of the Polytechnic Institute. Vietnamese students held a rally in St. Petersburg protesting against skinheads. At the end of September, three youths from the Central Russian city of Voronezh were sentenced to seventeen, ten and nine years in prison for stabbing a student from Guinea Bissau to death. On Monday, a Kenyan student was attacked by a group of high school students, not far from where the student from Guinea Bissau was killed.
Kerry

If the decision were up to US university students only, John Kerry would be the next president of the United States. In a survey of 1,200 students conducted by Harvard University, 13 percent more students said they favored Kerry over Bush. In the ‘swing states’, which could determine the election, 17 percent more students favour Kerry over Bush. A record number of students (72 percent) are expected to vote this year.
Boeing

The TU’s Faculty of Aerospace Engineering will be granted one traineeship place per year at Boeing Research and Technology Europe SL in Madrid. This stems from an agreement reached last week between Boeing and TU Delft. The TU’s Aerospace Engineering Faculty sees this as the beginning of an international partnership in education and research. The lucky TU student who is awarded the traineeship place will work in the area of fuel-saving cells for airplanes, health monitoring of systems or air traffic management.
Shanghai

The section micro-electronics and computer engineering of TU’s Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science Faculty and the two most important Chinese universities will start a new Chinese-Delftse research institute in Shanghai. The new Fudan/TUDelft/Tsing Hua ‘International Research Centre for Micro-electronics‘ should give the TU Delft and Dutch businesses a firm hold on the Chinese market. On 4 November, EEMC dean Jan van Katwijk will sign the agreement in Shanghai. The institute is a combination of previous Chinese-Delftse initiatives regarding micro-electronics. Last year the head of the section micro-electronics, Professor Kees Beenakker, started a MSc program in micro-electronics at the Fudan University in Shanghai. In 2001, he introduced, together with Dimes, a course centre for micro-electronics at the Tsing Hua University in Beijing. According to Beenakker, the new centre is the obvious next step. “Shanghai is the place to be for micro-electronics,” he says. “The Tsing Hua University already had plans to start a research centre in Shanghai. Fudan and the TU Delft wanted to expand their collaboration to research. Now everything comes together.”
La laptop

2.2 million students in France will be able to purchase a laptop computer for only one euro per day. The plan is being developed by France’s Ministry of Education, in partnership with leading banks and computer firms. Currently, only 160,000 of France’s students own their own computers, which is far below the average in other leading European countries. Education Minister Francois Fillon hopes that the measure will double the number of students owning computers within one year.

@01 kort nieuws kopje:Disciplined
The president of a French university wants a professor to be suspended for calling into question the existence of Nazi gas chambers. Professor Bruno Gollinisch, a deputy of France’s far-right National Front party and professor of languages and Japanese civilisation at the University of Lyons III, said: “There’s not a serious historian alive today who adheres completely to the conclusions of the Nuremberg trials. I don’t call into question the existence of the concentration camps, but…as to the existence of gas chambers, that’s up to the historians to determine.”

Racism

Foreign students in St. Petersburg, Russia are demanding better protection on and near campuses following the stabbing death of a Vietnamese student. The 20-year-old student’s body was found near the dormitory of a medical institute, with numerous stab wounds. He died at the scene. According to preliminary information, several youths armed with knives attacked Vu Ang Tuan, who was a first-year student of the Polytechnic Institute. Vietnamese students held a rally in St. Petersburg protesting against skinheads. At the end of September, three youths from the Central Russian city of Voronezh were sentenced to seventeen, ten and nine years in prison for stabbing a student from Guinea Bissau to death. On Monday, a Kenyan student was attacked by a group of high school students, not far from where the student from Guinea Bissau was killed.
Kerry

If the decision were up to US university students only, John Kerry would be the next president of the United States. In a survey of 1,200 students conducted by Harvard University, 13 percent more students said they favored Kerry over Bush. In the ‘swing states’, which could determine the election, 17 percent more students favour Kerry over Bush. A record number of students (72 percent) are expected to vote this year.
Boeing

The TU’s Faculty of Aerospace Engineering will be granted one traineeship place per year at Boeing Research and Technology Europe SL in Madrid. This stems from an agreement reached last week between Boeing and TU Delft. The TU’s Aerospace Engineering Faculty sees this as the beginning of an international partnership in education and research. The lucky TU student who is awarded the traineeship place will work in the area of fuel-saving cells for airplanes, health monitoring of systems or air traffic management.
Shanghai

The section micro-electronics and computer engineering of TU’s Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science Faculty and the two most important Chinese universities will start a new Chinese-Delftse research institute in Shanghai. The new Fudan/TUDelft/Tsing Hua ‘International Research Centre for Micro-electronics‘ should give the TU Delft and Dutch businesses a firm hold on the Chinese market. On 4 November, EEMC dean Jan van Katwijk will sign the agreement in Shanghai. The institute is a combination of previous Chinese-Delftse initiatives regarding micro-electronics. Last year the head of the section micro-electronics, Professor Kees Beenakker, started a MSc program in micro-electronics at the Fudan University in Shanghai. In 2001, he introduced, together with Dimes, a course centre for micro-electronics at the Tsing Hua University in Beijing. According to Beenakker, the new centre is the obvious next step. “Shanghai is the place to be for micro-electronics,” he says. “The Tsing Hua University already had plans to start a research centre in Shanghai. Fudan and the TU Delft wanted to expand their collaboration to research. Now everything comes together.”
La laptop

2.2 million students in France will be able to purchase a laptop computer for only one euro per day. The plan is being developed by France’s Ministry of Education, in partnership with leading banks and computer firms. Currently, only 160,000 of France’s students own their own computers, which is far below the average in other leading European countries. Education Minister Francois Fillon hopes that the measure will double the number of students owning computers within one year.

@01 kort nieuws kopje:Disciplined
The president of a French university wants a professor to be suspended for calling into question the existence of Nazi gas chambers. Professor Bruno Gollinisch, a deputy of France’s far-right National Front party and professor of languages and Japanese civilisation at the University of Lyons III, said: “There’s not a serious historian alive today who adheres completely to the conclusions of the Nuremberg trials. I don’t call into question the existence of the concentration camps, but…as to the existence of gas chambers, that’s up to the historians to determine.”