The fire in the student flat on Van Hasseltlaan last weekend was started deliberately. Owner DUWO has hired security guards to prevent a repeat occurrence.
Dozens of residents of the Van Hasseltlaan student flat had to leave their rooms during the night of Saturday 13 to Sunday 14 December due to a fire. The fire started on the eleventh floor. What was that like?
More than seven thousand students, lecturers and researchers gathered in Amsterdam on Tuesday to demonstrate against the budget cuts on higher education. The participants in the demonstration marched from Dam Square through the city centre.
Who is still going to study in Donald Trump’s United States? American higher education is seeing a 17 percent drop in international student enrolment.
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.
The Dutch Senate has approved the supplementary education budget for 2025, which includes more than 400 million euros in additional cuts. A motion by D66 and others to scrap these cuts was rejected.
It has emerged that an Israeli professor with ties to two Dutch universities has also been deployed in Gaza. In light of this revelation, the University of Groningen has decided to suspend its collaboration with the academic.
All Dutch universities are objecting to the scrapping of the starter and incentive grants. Even TU Delft is joining in, although in April it did not feel legal steps were necessary.
Researchers from Maastricht won the Ig Nobel Peace Prize Thursday night for their discovery that alcohol can help people speak another language, particularly when it comes to pronunciation.
