Nibs

TU Delft students will conduct around twenty experiments for people of all ages. The circus is organized by the TU student society, Society for Technological Physics. The event is from 10:00 to 18:00. The demonstrations are divided into five themes: Robots, Warm and Cold, Electricity and Magnetism, Light, and Particles. Demonstrations include robot soccer, and the TU Delft’s solar-powered car Nuna 2 will be displayed.
Recognition

The Netherlands and China have agreed to recognize each other’s advanced degree diplomas. This will make it easier to enroll in higher education programs in China and the Netherlands. Dutch Education Minister Van der Hoeven and China’s Minister of Education, Zhou Ji recently signed an accord in Beijing. The agreement strengthens the partnership agreements that China and the Netherlands now have in higher education. Approximately eight thousand Chinese currently study at Dutch universities or polytechnics. Approximately seventy Netherlanders currently study in China.
In debt

Almost four years after the Argentine government staged the largest-ever loan default, the economics department at the University of Buenos Aires has opened a Museum of Foreign Debt. It will feature temporary touring exhibitions. The first, entitled “Foreign Debt: Never Again”, outlines the problem dating from 1810, when the United States and Britain dominated the local economy, and ends with the latest default. It features videos, photographs, works of art, an archive and a research center. Simon Pristupin, the project’s director, said, “Foreign debt’s one of the principal factors that have contributed to our crisis, provoking hunger and poverty…The university must leave its ivory tower to help the citizens understand how the process of debt came about.” The exhibition is also darkly comic: a mock kitchen shows the disastrous “economic recipes” Argentina adopted, and visitors can enter a “black hole”, where the loans ended up. Statues of San Cayetano, the patron saint of employment, are scattered around exhibition, representing the increasing number of unemployed Argentines.
Parental contribution

Dutch students want to receive more money from the government, but not from their parents. Moreover, they prefer to work part-time jobs rather than take out loans. These are findings from a survey carried out by three students for the National Union of Students (LSVb). Students want to be as independent of their parents as possible. “Students are satisfied with what they get from their parents, but the Ministry of Education says that parents aren’t contributing enough,” said Gijs van Dijk, LSVb vice-chairman.
At work

The economy may be weak, but only 4% of recent graduates are unemployed, and dentists are most in demand on the job market. These are findings of the Foundation for Economic Research’s annual ‘Study & Work Report’. University graduates earn 25 euro more than last year: an average of 1,600 euro per month. Polytechnic graduates earn an average of 1,275 per month, or a hundred euro less than in 2004.
Geomatic

TU Delft is hoping its new degree program geomatic engineering will attract large numbers of international students. TU Executive Board Chairman Hans van Luijk described the new program “as a sort of continuation of geodesy, but with a strong focus on space engineering.” The degree program geodesy is being phased out because of low student enrollments. Geomatic engineering is similar to geodesy, and involves studying the ecological changes.
Metal arm

Two TU Delft students were assaulted struck over their heads by a gate while walking down the Phoenixstraat. The students got into a heated argument with another man, who became so enraged that he tore off the metal barrier arm for the parking garage on the Phoenixstraat and began beating the students, striking them on their heads. The bleeding students managed to escape and call the police from the Lorre disco. They were taken to hospital for treatment and later released. The police arrested the suspect.

Physics Circus

2005 is the United Nations’ ‘World Year of Physics’, and on June 3 the Markt square in Delft center will host a ‘Physics Circus’. TU Delft students will conduct around twenty experiments for people of all ages. The circus is organized by the TU student society, Society for Technological Physics. The event is from 10:00 to 18:00. The demonstrations are divided into five themes: Robots, Warm and Cold, Electricity and Magnetism, Light, and Particles. Demonstrations include robot soccer, and the TU Delft’s solar-powered car Nuna 2 will be displayed.
Recognition

The Netherlands and China have agreed to recognize each other’s advanced degree diplomas. This will make it easier to enroll in higher education programs in China and the Netherlands. Dutch Education Minister Van der Hoeven and China’s Minister of Education, Zhou Ji recently signed an accord in Beijing. The agreement strengthens the partnership agreements that China and the Netherlands now have in higher education. Approximately eight thousand Chinese currently study at Dutch universities or polytechnics. Approximately seventy Netherlanders currently study in China.
In debt

Almost four years after the Argentine government staged the largest-ever loan default, the economics department at the University of Buenos Aires has opened a Museum of Foreign Debt. It will feature temporary touring exhibitions. The first, entitled “Foreign Debt: Never Again”, outlines the problem dating from 1810, when the United States and Britain dominated the local economy, and ends with the latest default. It features videos, photographs, works of art, an archive and a research center. Simon Pristupin, the project’s director, said, “Foreign debt’s one of the principal factors that have contributed to our crisis, provoking hunger and poverty…The university must leave its ivory tower to help the citizens understand how the process of debt came about.” The exhibition is also darkly comic: a mock kitchen shows the disastrous “economic recipes” Argentina adopted, and visitors can enter a “black hole”, where the loans ended up. Statues of San Cayetano, the patron saint of employment, are scattered around exhibition, representing the increasing number of unemployed Argentines.
Parental contribution

Dutch students want to receive more money from the government, but not from their parents. Moreover, they prefer to work part-time jobs rather than take out loans. These are findings from a survey carried out by three students for the National Union of Students (LSVb). Students want to be as independent of their parents as possible. “Students are satisfied with what they get from their parents, but the Ministry of Education says that parents aren’t contributing enough,” said Gijs van Dijk, LSVb vice-chairman.
At work

The economy may be weak, but only 4% of recent graduates are unemployed, and dentists are most in demand on the job market. These are findings of the Foundation for Economic Research’s annual ‘Study & Work Report’. University graduates earn 25 euro more than last year: an average of 1,600 euro per month. Polytechnic graduates earn an average of 1,275 per month, or a hundred euro less than in 2004.
Geomatic

TU Delft is hoping its new degree program geomatic engineering will attract large numbers of international students. TU Executive Board Chairman Hans van Luijk described the new program “as a sort of continuation of geodesy, but with a strong focus on space engineering.” The degree program geodesy is being phased out because of low student enrollments. Geomatic engineering is similar to geodesy, and involves studying the ecological changes.
Metal arm

Two TU Delft students were assaulted struck over their heads by a gate while walking down the Phoenixstraat. The students got into a heated argument with another man, who became so enraged that he tore off the metal barrier arm for the parking garage on the Phoenixstraat and began beating the students, striking them on their heads. The bleeding students managed to escape and call the police from the Lorre disco. They were taken to hospital for treatment and later released. The police arrested the suspect.