No data from end users of business accounts was leaked during the cyberattack on telecom provider Odido. This means that no staff data or user data belonging to TU Delft employees was affected, the university announced on its intranet. On Thursday, Odido announced that cybercriminals had gained access to a file containing the details of
The student council of VU University Amsterdam is in crisis due to the conflict surrounding the Vrijmoedige Studentenpartij (VSP). According to reports in newspaper Het Parool, VSP founder Marlon U. has been aggressive and intimidating on campus for years. Among other things, he knocked a student to the ground after the student confronted Marlon U.
A group of employees at the student sports centre at TU Eindhoven have been underpaid for years. The university is going to rectify this and is allocating 750,000 euro for this purpose. Around fifteen permanent employees and ninety on-call workers at the Eindhoven student sports centre have been underpaid for years. This was revealed by
The new coalition has divided up the ministerial posts. As expected, the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science will go to D66. The Undersecretary will remain a member of the VVD. D66 leader Rob Jetten will become Prime Minister and VVD member Eelco Heinen is the intended Minister of Finance. State Secretary Sandra Palmen (formerly
Study programmes are disappearing, lecturers are being laid off and small study groups are turning into massive lectures. This is due to cuts in education funding, says the Dutch National Union of Students (LSVb) in a ‘black book’ presented to the Dutch Parliament on Tuesday. The new minority coalition of D66, CDA, and VVD has
"We urge you to respond to this situation with the necessary decisiveness and urgency." This is what (former) Iranian TU employees and alumni wrote this week to Rianne Letschert, the informateur who led the coalition talks, and the three party leaders who were at the table. The open letter was supported by more than three
In medium-sized cities there is sometimes insufficient knowledge and experience when it comes to student housing. The government needs to do something about that, according to a motion submitted by the Dutch Parliament on Thursday. The signatories are the future governing parties D66, CDA and VVD, along with GroenLinks-PvdA and ChristenUnie. They are already guaranteed
Ghent University rector Petra De Sutter was set to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Amsterdam next week, but has decided to decline after multiple AI citations were discovered in her inauguration speech. AI-generated Einstein, including fake quotes. (Image: Unsplash/Marjolein van der Veldt) “Dogma is the enemy of progress, as you may know.”
You are free to read Plato, just not when he writes about race or gender. A professor of philosophy at a major university in Texas has been required to skip certain texts in his classes. The history of philosophy is sometimes described as a series of footnotes to Plato. The Greek philosopher lived around 400
Things went wrong during the transition to a new administration system: on Monday, employees at Leiden University suddenly found themselves able to view the personal data of their colleagues, among others. Names, home addresses, and sometimes even phone numbers... the personal data of everyone who had submitted an invoice to Leiden University was suddenly visible
