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.

Swindler’s adThere’s a swindler at work in Delft, and Duwo, the TU student housing company, has posted a warning in the Aula about him. Apparently, the swindler places small ads in supermarkets and Bookshop Waltman, offering a one-room apartment for rent.

Beginning in September 2003, all courses in the TU’s applied physics Master’s program will be given in English. Although there are advantages to this%students learn to work in an international environment and the TU becomes more accessible to foreign students%many students and professors have their doubts about this switch to English-only.

FuneralLast Tuesday the aula of the TU Delft was for a short moment a meeting place for the people who attended the funeral of Prince Claus.

Why this proposition? In Guus Hiddink land: A Korean PhD student talks about life in the Lowlands, being, and multi-split gratings.,,Western science tries to analyze all the details, while Oriental philosophy tries to regard the whole without decomposition.

Prince Claus died and the TU was shut down. Foreign students and employees were generally sympathetic, but with lectures and assignments being pushed back to next week, which was originally scheduled as a free study week prior to exams, many students were grumbling.