The Windesheim University of Applied Sciences made a mistake. A reminder for one student accidentally went to 18 thousand students. In the mail, the college threatened a collection agency. It was a stern email. A student was in arrears with 193 euros of tuition fees and had to pay quickly or the university would call
The organisers of Westerpop have decided to discontinue the free pop festival in Delft. After 35 successful editions, it seems that keeping the event going is no longer financially viable. According to the organisation, persistent inflation and the upcoming VAT increase in 2026 make it impossible to organise the festival ‘in its current form’. The
Despite an earlier decision to stop cooperating with the fossil industry, Utrecht University receives €1.5 million from oil company BP for research into renewable energy. This causes confusion: is the university ignoring its own rules? After all kinds of student protests and discussion groups, the university decided in July 2023 not to establish any more
People with a higher education level are more willing to donate organs after their death. This is according to new figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Among the academic educated people, 46 percent consent to organ donation, compared to only 23 percent of the practically trained people. In contrast, 40 percent of the
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
