As tech studies become more popular, this could come at the expense of healthcare and education programmes, acknowledges education minister Eppo Bruins. This is partly why technical programmes continue to bring in students from abroad. Last spring, chip manufacturer ASML threatened to leave the Netherlands because of restrictions on the influx of foreign students and
NWO's ISAAC application system has been down for almost a week. They first called it a glitch, but now the research funder is reporting a cyber attack. The application system will remain offline for security reasons until at least Monday 26 August. There have been ‘attempts to get in’, says an NWO spokesperson, ‘but they
For their investigation into discrimination in the fraud hunt by student funding agency DUO, journalists from Investico, the Higher Education Press Agency, NOSop3 and daily newspaper Trouw have been awarded de Loep. Those awards for the best investigative journalism in the Netherlands and Flanders were presented in Flanders on Friday. There were three winners and
Student Casper (InHolland) performed a downright heroic act on Saturday night. On the way back from a barbecue with his hockey team, he witnessed a car ending up in the water along the Oostpoortweg in Delft. This is what local broadcaster Omroep West writes on Monday. The student jumped in and saved the life of
Pro-Palestinian activists occupied the The Hague building of university association UNL on 4 June. They want the universities to cut ties with Israel. A large banner reading “Boycott & divest” hangs on the facade, with a banner next to it declaring the universities complicit in genocide. “It's fairly intimidating,” says a UNL spokesman. “We are
Students from China and Hong Kong studying abroad are being monitored and intimidated by their home country, reports Amnesty International, which also interviewed Chinese students in the Netherlands. They told Amnesty that they were followed online, both by the regime and by fellow students. Also, one in three students say their families have been approached
Protect open and free science in Europe. That call is made by the national academies of science, including the Dutch KNAW, ahead of the European elections on Thursday 6 June. For science, internationalisation is an important issue. After incidents with China and the war in Ukraine, some European member states distrust the international cooperation and
SURF no longer tweets. The ICT cooperative for education is leaving X and opening its own server for education and research on Mastodon. There, users are less bothered by bots, trolls and spam. Since Elon Musk took over Twitter and started calling it X, public 'twexits', as a farewell to Twitter is sometimes called, have
After last year's success, the second edition of the Liberation Festival will take place on the Doelenplein this year. On Liberation Day, which is 5 May, naturally. Organiser is Delft Vrij Foundation, in collaboration with six students. Between 1 PM and midnight, all kinds of artists will perform on the square. 'From big band to
Update 1 May 2024 The professor in question is Corinne Hofman, Dutch newspaper NRC reported (in Dutch) on Wednesday based on interviews with insiders. Sources within the university also confirmed to Leiden university magazine Mare (in Dutch) that Hofman is involved. She is a professor of archaeology and was dean of the archaeology faculty between
