TU Delft has expressed satisfaction with the new coalition agreement, which sets aside 1.5 billion euros for education. The university announced this in a press release on Friday. The umbrella organisation UNL also responded positively to the presented plans.
The minority cabinet of D66, CDA and VVD wants to reverse the cuts in education and is allocating 1.5 billion euros for this purpose. There will be no major investments in science, except perhaps through defence.
ABP, the public sector pension fund, has reduced its holdings of US government bonds by 10 billion euros. However, the fund is investing hundreds of millions in Palantir, a controversial company that, according to Amnesty International, facilitates the persecution of immigrants and student protesters in the United States.
Following a brawl in a campus bar at VU University Amsterdam in November, two students were arrested. Both of them are members of the far-right student party VSP. Earlier, the university magazine Ad Valvas had already pressed charges against the party.
Transparency is fine, says Caspar van den Berg, chairman of the umbrella organisation Universities of the Netherlands (UNL). According to him, public universities do not want any exceptions to the law that compels them to be open.
There is a lot at stake for students in the Dutch coalition talks. The chairpersons of student organisations ISO and LSVb would like to be involved. Meanwhile, they are looking for new board members.
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.
