Fifteen researchers and students have been denied dispensation to do specific subjects and projects at a Dutch university or university of applied sciences in the past five years. This was because, after screening, there was too high a risk of leaking sensitive knowledge. In total, universities and colleges applied for exemptions for over two thousand
As of February 2026, Dick van Gameren will no longer serve as Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at TU Delft. He has announced his decision to step down after just under seven years in the role, sharing the news in a personal message on the intranet. Van Gameren will not…
The city council recommends Alexander Pechtold as the new mayor of Delft. The municipality reported this in a press release on Thursday. Pechtold will probably replace the outgoing Marja van Bijsterveldt from September 4th. The Confidential Committee that recommended him is pleased with Pechtold as a candidate for the mayoralty. He has ‘extensive political and
Due to Tuesday’s nationwide train strike, the planned protest against education budget cuts will not go ahead. Trade unions and activists had intended to voice their opposition to the government’s planned cuts to higher education and research at a demonstration on Dam Square in Amsterdam. Solidarity “We fully support the right to strike and want
The fall of the Dutch cabinet will not yet change the cuts in education and research, warn the trade unions. On Tuesday 10 June, they will hold a large demonstration at Dam Square in Amsterdam. Next Tuesday between 12 PM and 2:30 PM, students, teachers, researchers, support staff and sympathisers will protest against the cuts
Solar car Nuna 13 has been knocked over during a test. This happened on 4 June in Volkswagen's wind tunnel. Despite the damage the new version of the Delft solar car suffered, the planned unveiling on 10 June will go ahead as planned. The Brunel Solar Team reports this in a press release. The student
On the day the Dutch cabinet fell, minister Keijzer withdrew the controversial bill to freeze social rents. The Dutch student union LSVb is annoyed that students will now also have to pay up to 5 per cent more rent from 1 July. Duwo Student flat Balpol 4. (Photo: Thijs van Reeuwijk) The Spring Memorandum stated
The language test proposed by the Dutch cabinet will not go ahead: a majority in the House of Representatives voted in favor of a motion last Tuesday to scrap it. The test could have affected four of the sixteen bachelor’s programmes offered by TU Delft. It would have meant that these English-taught bachelor’s programmes would
While TU Delft finished second last year, this year the university has dropped seven places in the SustainaBul sustainability ranking. Just like last year, university of applied sciences Van Hall Larenstein takes the gold. For the fourteenth time, the organisation Studenten voor Morgen has assessed sustainability in higher education. What is the vision of universities and
The number of international students in Dutch higher education is growing by just 3 percent this year. That is the smallest increase in a decade, according to the internationalisation organisation Nuffic. Contrary to this national trend, technical universities are seeing strong growth. At the start of the 2024–25 academic year, a total of 131,000 international
