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:
For the fourth consecutive year, university enrollment has declined. This is shown by the final counts. Universities in Maastricht, Amsterdam, and Nijmegen in particular are seeing losses, while technical universities and Rotterdam are recording growth. In September, nearly 58,500 students started a university bachelor's degree, one percent less than last year. This is mainly because
Lecturers, researchers, and other staff in higher education are planning to go on strike to protest the Government's budget cuts. It will be a ‘relay strike’. The idea of the relay is for a different university or university of applied sciences to strike each time. The FNV union informed its members that ‘How each institution will
The unions have finally received a response to their ultimatum to Education Minister Eppo Bruins. He is willing to meet with them. A word of warning, though: fewer budget cuts are not on the table. The unions' ultimatum expired last Saturday. They demanded that all cuts to higher education and research be scrapped, otherwise strikes
Utrecht University is again the best ‘broad’ institution in this year's Keuzegids, while the Open University and Wageningen top the list of ‘other’ universities. © HOP. Source: Keuzegids Universiteiten 2025 and previous editions. Utrecht University continues to do very well, says the Keuzegids Universities 2025, published on Thursday. Radboud University has lost a point, but
‘Abolish the long-study fine.’ The four ruling parties rejected a motion to that effect on Tuesday afternoon, even though the plan seems likely to be scrapped soon. It was a concise motion by MP Doğukan Ergin (Denk). He requested the government to abolish the long-study fine. Education Minister Eppo Bruins (NSC) advised against the motion
At a festive ceremony, Dr Miriam Blaauboer (Faculty of Applied Sciences) was chosen as TU Delft Educator of the Year. Early next year, she will represent the university in the national competition. In an annual tradition, student associations from all faculties nominate a candidate for the TU Delft Educator of the Year award. This year’s
Tim van der Hagen, rector magnificus and chairman of the TU Delft, expresses his disapproval of the cutbacks in higher education on LinkedIn. He was supposed to go to the national demonstration in Utrecht. Now that that has been cancelled, he and other university representatives will go to The Hague on Thursday afternoon 14 November
For approving a bachelor's degree program in osteopathy, regulator NVAO received the Meester Kackadoris award Saturday from the Association against Quackery. The NVAO (Dutch-Flemish Accreditation Organisation) monitors the quality of higher education in the Netherlands and Flanders. Without approval from the NVAO, the private osteopathy training would not be allowed to award a recognised bachelor's
Despite the fact that the Netherlands is already under-investing in research and development (R&D), Education Minister Bruins did not want to conclude in the Lower House on Thursday that the Netherlands will sink even further due to future budget cuts. During Bruins' first debate in the Lower House, in preparation for an upcoming European consultation,
