TU Delft works hard to attract highly educated foreigners, but new Dutch immigration laws make being a foreign TU student or staff member a real pain in the backside and the wallet.

Get out graduatesStudents who have graduated must move out of their student apartments when they have finished their studies, says Minister Kamp, of the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment.

Sports center gets half a millionThe Executive Board made a one-time-only 500,000 euro offer to the TU Delft Sports center. The money is to be used for optimizing the existing sports facilities.

An increasingly vocal group of academics say the Dutch professorial system needs to be reformed. The academic career path from post-doc, assitant/associate professor, to a full professorship is too unclear, demoralizing, and, in some areas, fundamentally unfair.

‘To improve the world, start with your own country’ is one of the propositions in Marjan Popov’s PhD thesis ‘Switching three-phase distribution transformers with a vacuum circuit breaker, Analysis of Overvoltages and the Protection of Equipment’, which he defended this week.

It may come as a bit of a surprise to foreign students or researchers, but yes, in Holland, there are student protests, too. This week, eight thousand students converged on Amsterdam to protest Dutch government plans to cut the higher education budget by 358 million euro over the next few years.

Professor Jakob de Swaan Arons, who reached professor emeritus status at TU Delft at age 65, embarks on a new career at China’s Tsinghua University.

Ghost Academy Terrifies Delft ProfessorEver wonder what it would be like to receive a membership letter from an organisation that may not even exist? Professor GuusBerkhout knows exactly how it feels.

To Abhilash Menon, it seemed like a scene from a science fiction movie. It was 19:00 in the evening, but the streets of Enschede were completely deserted.

Halloween’s is gaining popularity all across the world. It%s a great evening for dressing up in silly costumes and acting the fool. This year nightclubs across Holland will host Halloween parties, where you can get your costume and your freak on.