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TU Delft has decided to terminate the police agreement governing the sharing of personal data between the two parties. University President of the Executive Board Ingrid Thijssen informed the police on Wednesday evening, she announced during a meeting with the Works Council and the Student Council.
Carin van der Hor has stepped down as an external confidential advisor at TU Delft. She is leaving behind an organisation where transgressive behaviour is reported more often, yet where cultural change is progressing slowly. “If the behaviour does not change, confidential advisers will remain very busy.”
Trade unions AOb and FNV are calling for a 6-percent pay rise at universities, and for salaries to automatically rise in line with inflation from now on. They also want to improve the situation for pregnant employees.
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.
This week the national council of student associations LKvV sent an urgent letter to DUWO, the housing association, about the pick your housemate-policy. That’s more than one-and-a-half months after the Delft and Leiden municipal councils adopted motions about the proposed system. What was written in the motions and what will DUWO do next?
Prospective buyers need to be quick to get hold of a secondhand jewel at OWee’s first secondhand market. But it may not work for everyone: “I see a lot of good things! But I don’t have a room so I can’t buy anything yet.”
