SHORT: TU Delft issues its own stamps PostNL and TU Delft have issued a sheet of stamps featuring 10 TU Delft innovations. Cartoonist Erwin Suvaal has drawn inviting pictures of things like the clapboard container, energy kites, the sand motor and other innovations. To find out more about the stories behind the…
Students are allowed to go back to campus Students at TU Delft will be able to attend lectures at the campus two or three days a week in the coming academic year. The university writes this in a news release after the Dutch cabinet announced Friday that higher education and vocational education (mbo) is allowed…
Spar Stieltjesweg opens again Good news for hungry TU students and employees. From Monday 16 August onwards the Spar University at the Stieltjesweg will be open again. Reason for reopening is the resumption of physical education by universities starting this academic year. The supermarket closed its doors for the last time during the second lockdown…
Survey: half of scientists cheat sometimes Half of all scientists are sometimes guilty of dubious research practices. Even making up or manipulating research results is a regular occurrence. This has emerged from a national survey of 6,813 researchers at Dutch universities and academic hospitals. They cover up the weaknesses of their research, do not…
Cutbacks worth millions off the table A proposed cutback of EUR 149 million on secondary and tertiary education was scrapped. On Thursday, a majority in the House of Representatives supported D66’s amendment entailing corona support to students not going at the cost of secondary and tertiary education. Only VVD, CDA and PVV voted against. …
More confidence in science The Dutch have gained more confidence in science, according to a triennial poll conducted by the Rathenau Institute. The results of that survey are invariably positive: Dutch people find science much more reliable than, say, politics or the media. But would that be different in coronation time? No, according…
New record for Eco-Runner Team The Delft Eco-Runner Team has driven 1196 kilometers with its newest hydrogen car (the Eco-Runner XI) on a tank filled with only 450 grams of hydrogen. In doing so, the students have set a new world record. The previous record belonged to a hydrogen car from Toyota, which drove…
Living differently after corona Do people they want to live closer to nature as a consequence of the corona lockdowns? That seems to be the case. Or so Marjolein Bons, architecture and the built environment student found out during her graduation research. Her research is based on a survey of housing seekers registered with Nieuwbouw…
Education protest against budget cuts Universities and trade unions protested last Monday in The Hague against a cut of 149 million euros in secondary and higher education. This 149 million euros will be spread out over several years and will be paid for half by the universities. The money is needed for…
Hackers receive no payment from Leiden University A server of the Leiden Observatory has been hacked. Probably by Russian hackers, reports Algemeen Dagblad. They are said to have ‘passed on or sold’ home addresses and research data to the Iranian Arvin Club. The latter has since published some of…
