President Donald Trump has signed an order aiming to eliminate the Department of Education. According to the US President the department is wasting billions of dollars. He wants education to become a matter of individual US states again, as it used to be. This affects, among other things, US student funding. Trump believes that the
On Tuesday evening, a big fire broke out at a house on Nieuwstraat in the centre of Delft. Around midnight, the fire was largely under control, but the fire brigade expects to be busy for hours with debris clearance. The fire started around 20:30 in an upstairs unit on the Nieuwstraat and quickly spread to
The Delft Hyperloop team was named the winner of the KIVI Engineering Student Team 2025 award last week and also took home the Audience Award. The award ceremony of the Royal Society of Engineers (Kivi) took place on Wednesday 12 March at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, in the presence of Princess Beatrix, Princess
Four lecturers have been nominated for Lecturer of the Year 2025: two from a university and two from a university of applied sciences. The winner will receive a grant of 25 thousand euros for educational innovation. It is the eleventh time that the prize will been awarded. One of the contenders is from TU Delft:
A lot of odour and flooding on Tuesday 11 March at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences. A sewer pipe burst there around 1:05 PM. Videos circulating on social media show the light brown water coming through the ceiling in a hard jet. The sewer pipe was located under groups of toilets on the
Nearly three thousand lecturers, staff and students demonstrated in Leiden on 10 March against the cutbacks in higher education. On 11 March, it is Utrecht's turn to continue this so-called relay strike. Striking in Leiden. (Photo: Roland Pupupin) The activists are hoping that the education budget that the House of Representatives agreed to after long
A survey by the Noscura communications agency shows that 14 out of 15 Dutch universities have stopped posting on X, formerly Twitter. Maastricht University has even deleted its account entirely. The only Dutch university still active on Twitter is TU Delft. Ironically, the man now calling (in Dutch) on TU Delft to be the last
The TU Delft Krashna Musika student orchestra and choir will be performing two fairy tale concerts in June – and that calls for a narrator. Do you know someone who would be perfect for the role? Or could it be you? Let them know! Conductor Stijn Berkouwer is celebrating his first lustrum with Krashna this
Starting 1 May, Cokky Hilhorst will be the new Dean of the Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management. This was announced by the Executive Board in an email to all TU Delft staff on Tuesday. She will succeed Deputy Dean Sabine Roeser, who had been appointed as of 1 December 2024. Prior to Roeser, Aukje
On Thursday, March 20, an action meeting against the cuts in higher education will take place at TU Delft. The meeting, organised by unions FNV, AOb, and VSSD (for students) is intended for TU staff, but other parties are welcome to join as well. Those interested can register on the website. The aim is for
