It is noisy, dark, there is no privacy and there is no second screen. Still, Otto Kaaij swears by his regular study space on the second floor of Building 28. Studying at home does not work for him.
Responding to the Executive Board’s call for deans and directors to be ‘more aware’ of their incomes and expenditures, Fabio Luelmo expresses concern about how to do this. He recommends modernising systems and automating processes.
Make sure that a new Vice Rector has no ties to the fossil fuel industry, writes master student Jen Jacobs. “It is clear that whoever takes decisions on collaboration with fossil fuel companies should not be associated with that industry.”
Columnist Jan van Neerven is a proponent of English-language education at TU Delft. He already had issues with certain aspects of the proposed political Bill, which aims to better manage the influx of international students. And now, the recent additional measures to tighten that law go too far in his view.
Alex Nedelcu believes that he’s lucky to live in a city like Delft. However, he sees that it’s not an option for every TU Delft student. It seems to him that very few new housing developments are actually geared towards students.
It is good that the attention for social safety at TU Delft has not yet waned, but do something about the repetition in actions, writes Jan Schiereck in this letter.
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?
