Over the coming years, €25 million will be made available to attract scientists from the United States (and other countries) to the Netherlands. This is stated in the ‘supplementary budget’ that the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science has released on Friday. Due to ‘growing global tensions’, more and more scientists are considering relocating to…
170 American higher education institutions are resisting political interference from the Trump administration. They demand the free exchange of ideas “without fear of retribution, censorship, or deportation”. Leaders from institutions including Princeton, Yale, and MIT have spoken out “against the unprecedented government interference and political meddling that currently threaten American higher education”. The American Association
Harvard University rejects the Trump administration's demands and sees 2.2 billon dollars in federal funds frozen. The university doesn’t want to “surrender its independence”. In response to Donald Trump’s anti-science policies, fear seemed to reign supreme amongst American universities until now. Not at Harvard University, however. By refusing to give in to the demands, this
On Monday, pro-Palestinian protesters occupied the Maagdenhuis at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). There’s also an ongoing occupation at Radboud University. Police stepped in in Amsterdam, but in Nijmegen that wasn’t necessary this afternoon. Around midday on Monday, between 50 and 100 masked pro-Palestinian activists entered UvA’s main administrative building. The staff inside were told
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
