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.
TU Delft should not only close a potential knowledge gap of incoming students, as Tom Vroegrijk asserts. The university should also ensure that enough qualified teachers enter secondary education. That is what Freek Pols, TU Delft education researcher, proposes in this letter.
Bas Rooijakkers often hears people say that TU Delft students are arrogant. If you do a challenging degree, you need to be special. Don’t you? Bas is trying to break this one-sided reputation.
The mathematical achievements of Dutch secondary school pupils never dropped as strongly as between 2018 and 2022. TU Delft mathematics teacher, Tom Vroegrijk, believes that universities should take measures to still give them a chance.
