President Donald Trump has signed an order aiming to eliminate the Department of Education. According to the US President the department is wasting billions of dollars. He wants education to become a matter of individual US states again, as it used to be. This affects, among other things, US student funding. Trump believes that the
On Tuesday evening, a big fire broke out at a house on Nieuwstraat in the centre of Delft. Around midnight, the fire was largely under control, but the fire brigade expects to be busy for hours with debris clearance. The fire started around 20:30 in an upstairs unit on the Nieuwstraat and quickly spread to
The Delft Hyperloop team was named the winner of the KIVI Engineering Student Team 2025 award last week and also took home the Audience Award. The award ceremony of the Royal Society of Engineers (Kivi) took place on Wednesday 12 March at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, in the presence of Princess Beatrix, Princess
Nearly three thousand lecturers, staff and students demonstrated in Leiden on 10 March against the cutbacks in higher education. On 11 March, it is Utrecht's turn to continue this so-called relay strike. Striking in Leiden. (Photo: Roland Pupupin) The activists are hoping that the education budget that the House of Representatives agreed to after long
A student has been sentenced to two months in prison for violent behaviour during the pro-Palestinian demonstrations at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). She climbed onto a loader and threw sticks at the police. This week, the student, Simone, appeared in front of the local AT5 TV channel’s camera. Originally from China, Simone claimed that
For triple murder and arson, 34-year-old Fouad L., former Erasmus University Rotterdam medical student, will receive a life sentence. On Friday, the judge handed down the verdict in the much-discussed case. In September 2023, Fouad L first murdered his neighbor and her 14-year-old daughter , and then shot dead a lecturer at Erasmus MC, who
Delta’s editor-in-chief Saskia Bonger was close to becoming journalist of the year 2024. She was one of the last three remaining candidates for the award, which is presented each February by Dutch journalism trade magazine Villamedia. Winner was Saskia Belleman, court reporter for De Telegraaf. It was not previously announced who the nominees were. Villamedia…
Students at the Dutch Zeeland-based University College Roosevelt went on strike Monday in solidarity with staff members who are at risk of losing their jobs. A quarter of the staff will be laid off, the institution announced last week. University College Roosevelt (UCR), which is part of Utrecht University and offers an English-language liberal arts
Defence minister Ruben Brekelmans was escorted offstage at the University of Amsterdam Thursday for ‘security reasons’, as protesters disrupted his appearance by banging on windows and allegedly assaulting campus security. The university says it will report the incident to the police. As a guest on Room for Discussion, UvA’s debate programme, Brekelmans (VVD) was supposed
The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of former part-time students of Erasmus University Rotterdam in a lawsuit over excessive tuition fees. They paid around EUR 34,000 for their two-year Master’s in Business Administration, even though their programme was Government funded. Officially, the university was only allowed to charge the statutory tuition fee. This issue
