TU Delft’s executive board (EB) has cancelled a planned meeting with Students and Staff for Safety. Both parties did not agree on the conditions to hold a ‘safe conversation’ and how to do so transparently, but say they are still open to talk. The group, which was formed by students and staff in response to…
According to a university spokesperson, no security guards in plainclothes walk around the campus of TU Delft nor has the university ever considered doing so. “We use two parties who are always recognisable. Our regular campus security is provided by G4S. But event security is also always recognisable,” said the spokesperson. Commotion arose on Monday
The Students and Staff for Safety and the Executive Board will meet on 29 August. It is the first time the two parties are going to get together since the action group was formed in March this year. Since its formation, the Students and Staff for Safety have anonymously called on the Executive Board (cvb)
(Photo: Kim Bakker) Although the tented camp is gone, pro-Palestinian sentiment has not disappeared from the TU Delft campus. On Monday morning, slogans like 'TU Delft complicit' and 'Don't like graffiti? Look away like you do for genocide...' were written on the walls of the Faculty of Engineering, Governance and Management and Education and Students
TU Delft's accounting was not in order around 2019, writes to the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. According to the newspaper, around that time the university would have appeared poorer than it actually was by fiddling with the financial closure of projects. For example, in one of the financial statements, positive balances would have been written
Earlier this week, TU Delft suffered a DDos attack. During the night of Monday 27 May to Tuesday 28 May TU Delft servers were attacked from multiple countries. The attack continued until Tuesday evening and explicitly targeted TU Delft, writes TU News. In a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack, servers of in this case
Let students exercise their fundamental right to protest and do not clear any encampment on campus. This is what fifteen TU Delft academic staff members are asking for in a letter to the Executive Board. In their letter, the writers, united under the name TU Delft Faculty and Staff, refer to pro-Palestinian student protests in
The Executive Board submitted the so-called ‘Plan for change: social safety TU Delft’ to the Dutch Inspectorate of Education on 15 May. The latter will later give its first reaction. In its damning report on social safety at TU Delft, the inspectorate demanded that the Executive Board submit a plan of action by mid-May. Earlier,
On Monday 13 May, students and staff of all kinds of universities and universities of applied sciences plan to protest with a 'walk-out': at 11 AM, they will stop their work and walk outside. In Delft, a similar protest has been announced by a group calling itself Engineering Solidarity Palestine Delft and that is supported
On Friday 19 April 19, Dutch Lower House member Luc Stultiens (GroenLinks-PvdA) asked parliamentary questions about the course of events surrounding an article that Delta took offline in protest. Among other things, Stultiens wants to know whether Outgoing Education Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf shares the view of the Nederlandse Vereniging van Journalisten (Dutch Association of Journalists,
