Englis version De Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW) gaat een advies opstellen over hoe de wetenschap een sociaal veiliger werkomgeving kan worden. Voor het opstellen van de adviezen gebruikt de Akademie onder meer het rapport van het Landelijk Netwerk Vrouwelijke Hoogleraren, waaruit blijkt dat wangedrag en intimidatie ook in de Nederlandse wetenschap regelmatig…
Website against internship discrimination The Dutch ministry of Education has started a new online campaign against internship discrimination, reports the NOS (in Dutch). The initiative is aimed at higher vocational education (mbo), but at a later stage, Minister of Education Ingrid van Engelshoven also wants to involve higher education. With the website, ‘Kies Mij’ (‘Choose…
Keep ‘flying scientists’ on the ground more often Universities must do their best to reduce their CO2 emissions from flying, according to De Jonge Akademie. In a Wednesday published report (in Dutch) on the ecological footprint of academic flying de Jonge Akademie advises to invest digital conferences and good webcams. Universities often show good intentions with…
VVD still in favor of basic scholarship If it is up to the political party VVD, there will be no new basic scholarship in higher education. In its draft election program, the party pleads for the preservation of the loan system. Four parties supported the abolition of the basic scholarship in 2015. These were…
If it is up to the political party VVD, there will be no new basic scholarship in higher education. In its draft election program, the party pleads for the preservation of the loan system. Four parties supported the abolition of the basic scholarship in 2015. These were the then government parties VVD and PvdA together…
De coronacrisis vraagt veel van medezeggenschappers, zei minister Van Engelhoven op de Dag van de Medezeggenschap, maar goed overleg is belangrijker dan ooit. Ze praatte met studenten over de vierde landelijke medezeggenschapsmonitor, een initiatief van het Interstedelijk Studenten Overleg (ISO) uit de pre-coronatijd. Toch zijn de resultaten van de monitor relevant, vindt Van Engelshoven.…
Photo album Delft in times of Corona Photographer Herman Zonderland captured daily life in Delft during and after the first wave of the corona crisis. Initially he walked around with his camera and notebook through a deserted city, chronicling what it did to him. From Easter onwards there was more life on the streets,…
IT disruption leads to cancelled exams in Groningen too After problems at the University of Amsterdam, the University of Groningen too has now had a major IT disruption while online exams were underway. Hundreds of exams had to be scrapped. The second corona wave has forced exams to be done online at a massive…
Join the Digital University Day Since March, nothing has been as it was. And that also applies to TU Delft staff who suddenly had to do everything remotely: education, academic ceremonies, doctoral degrees and congresses. For the time being, the one-and-a-half-metre society is here to stay. Hence, employees of the TU Delft events agency…
Influenza vaccination <Message from the Student Medical Practice> Every winter about one in every ten persons gets the flu (infection with an influenza virus). Usually this is an uncomplicated disease. For some people the risk of complications is slightly raised. In the Netherlands these people are advised to get an influenza vaccination. This yearly vaccination protects…
