Really improving social safety requires listening to hidden voices, especially those pushed out or choosing silence, writes our new columnist Ali Vahidi. This avoids superficial measures that do not work.
Next year, nearly 400 student rooms will disappear from Aan ‘t Verlaat and Abtswoude Bloeit! Student columnist Mirte Brouwer advocates preserving these rooms until more student housing is created.
TU Delft’s lawyers are used against its own employees. Why does the Legal Department not support the employees, wonders Dap Hartmann. Is that not what good governance is about? Being there for your own people?
Otto Kaaij has enjoyed his work as a Student Assistant at TU Delft for years. He says that it demonstrates the Feynman Technique in its purest form: learning something by explaining it to someone. And you get paid too.
Bob van Vliet, a design teacher, always waves away the sceptical reactions of students when he asks them to learn to draw and sketch by hand. He firmly believed that it is purely a question of practice. Until he met someone for whom that really wasn’t the case.
The pervasive silence about social safety issues within our academic community exacerbates the problem, Ali Vahidi writes in this letter to the editor. “By failing to address our own defects, we cast doubt on our ability to effectively influence society and solve global problems.”
Student Merlijn de Vries was surprised to read that NSC calls the long-term study penalty an ‘incentive’. He recommends the Cabinet to say what it really is about.
Columnist Jan van Neerven read with approval that the rector has changed his stance on social safety. However, he has a few reservations.
Reader Huub van ’t Hart responded to the interview with Rector Tim van der Hagen about social safety on campus. He believes that he has found a solution – a particular individual.
