De Algemene Rekenkamer wil dat het ministerie van Onderwijs goed met de instellingen afstemt hoe ze de besteding van de coronasteun moeten verantwoorden. Het zou niet voor het eerst zijn dat extra onderwijsgeld aan andere zaken opgaat. Midden februari presenteerde het demissionaire kabinet een omvangrijk steunpakket om de gevolgen van de coronacrisis in het…
Top salaries in higher education Sixteen university and nine college of higher education directors received more than their institution’s set maximum salary in 2019. Another 50 directors were either at exactly the maximum or just below it. The Ministry’s annual survey of 1,500 higher education administrators shows that they take good care of…
More Twente-Amsterdam engineering programmes The University of Twente (UT) is expanding its cooperation with the Free University (VU) in Amsterdam to include two new bachelor’s programmes and a joint master’s specialisation. The two universities started a joint bachelor’s programme in mechanical engineering in 2019. The aim was to persuade more pre-university students from the…
6 April – academic action day On Tuesday 6 April, demonstrations in The Hague and university cities will draw attention to the structural underfunding of tertiary education in the Netherlands. A delegation from the Normaal Academisch Peil (normal academic level) action platform will hand over a manifesto to outgoing Minister Van Engelshoven and…
(Beeld: VNSU) De vereniging van Nederlandse universiteiten (VNSU) is er sneller uit dan de informateurs. Veertien kersverse student-ministers presenteren een alternatief regeerakkoord voor Nederland met de titel ‘Klaar voor de toekomst’. Het opvallendste verschil met de Haagse plannen is de termijn. Kijkt een regeerakkoord vier jaar vooruit, de studentministers kijken 30…
RUG ends cooperation with Chinese chair The University of Groningen will no longer have its chair in Chinese language and culture funded by Hanban, headquarters of the Chinese Confucius Institutes. This is what Minister Van Engelshoven wrote in response to questions in Parliament. The fuss arose last month after the NOS reported on…
Project MARCH steps outside Project MARCH is developing a motorised exoskeleton that enables paraplegics to get up and walk again. On Thursday, the student team presented the design for MARCH VI, the sixth consecutive design, online. This time, the team is not aiming for the fastest time over the obstacle course during the…
A square of qubits QuTech researchers in Menno Veldhorst’s group have rediscovered germanium as a promising platform for quantum bits (qubits). Germanium was originally used as a raw material for transistors, but was later widely replaced by silicon. In their latest publication in Nature (A four-bit germanium quantum processor), the researchers present a functional…
TU’s supercomputer for the next academic year The Delft High-Performance Computing Centre (DHPC) is clear for take-off. The Japanese computer manufacturer Fujitsu and a TU Delft delegation signed the supplier contract during a recorded ceremony last Monday 22 March. TU Delft aims to have the supercomputer service available for students and researchers this…
Raise the alarm when you are struggling with mental problems, say Delft student associations.
