Let us stop acting as though the reports made to the Inspectorate of Education are exceptions in an otherwise pleasant community, writes Assistant Professor Marieke Kootte. “Correct anyone that says that ‘women are like numbers, they are pretty to play with’.”
The court proceedings TU Delft is considering in response to the Inspectorate of Education report seem more an attempt to put their own house in order than to address the underlying causes of the reports. You do not restore TU Delft’s good name in court, but by being an excellent employer, Dap Hartmann believes.
Student Mirte Brouwer is calling on TU Delft to support dual degree students. According to her, engineers who have undergone a broad education are highly valuable, but support from TU Delft for these students is very limited. The fact that top athletes, for example, do receive extra support proves that giving extra support would be possible.
Ethics is more than just a module on your timetable, says Applied Physics student Bas Rooijakkers. It is a learning process that lasts a lifetime and starts with the choices that we make today.
More than elsewhere at TU Delft, Architecture and the Built Environment understands what it means to have an academic attitude towards your discipline, Bob van Vliet discovered. This also implies that you explore things that are completely unrealistic in today’s society.
At the end of his contract, Vishal Onkhar reflects on what a PhD is really about. He realises the answer depends on when you ask the question: at the beginning, the middle, or the end.
Birgit van Driel thinks that there is not enough emphasis on nuance in communications about science in the media.
Alex Nedelcu, Aerospace Engineering bachelor student, thinks his Faculty should not revert its bachelor’s programme back to Dutch, as Delta columnist Dap Hartmann suggested in his latest column. “To shut the door on international students would mean compromising TU Delft’s reputation on the world stage.”
There is definitely no lack of Dutch students who would like to study aerospace engineering. So why should we offer bachelor programmes to the rest of the world at the cost of Dutch students, asks Dap Hartmann.
