TU Delft was too slow in granting an extension to a pre-master’s student with physical and mental disabilities, the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights has ruled. The student should have been given more clarity.
Outgoing Minister of Education Robbert Dijkgraaf wants to scrap the term ‘higher education’ from daily language usage to increase equality of vocational, professional and university programmes. “Anything we can do to reduce differences is good.”
The Faculty of Aerospace Engineering has been notified by the Inspectorate of Education that the preferential policy for female freshmen that was supposed to take effect next academic year is not allowed by law.
Bachelor’s students will not be included in the future screening of foreign students and researchers in sensitive fields, promises outgoing education minister Robbert Dijkgraaf.
TU Delft climate philosophers James Hutton and Anna Melnyk help students deal with the many climate dilemmas they face during and outside their studies. How can they handle all the pessimism surrounding climate change? “Letting despair take over is not an option.”
The House of Representatives voted in favour of a special student quota for international students on 15 February. A majority no longer wants to wait for outgoing Education Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf’s bill including the same measure.
The current selection procedures for popular courses for students can exacerbate inequality of opportunity. Higher education must do more to prevent this, says outgoing Education Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf. He anticipates that student selection will assume even greater importance in the future.
More Dutch language-taught courses for undergraduates and fewer students coming from abroad? The initial response to universities’ own plans for achieving this goal is positive.
At the earliest in the 2025-2026 academic year, the Aerospace Engineering bachelor degree programme will have a Dutch-English language track alongside the English one.
