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…
De rol van kunstmatige intelligentie (AI) bij het modelleren van de verspreiding van het coronavirus is vooral ondersteunend. Dat vertelde prof.dr.ir. Robert Kooij (EWI) op een zoombijeenkomst van het Bataafsch Genootschap. Wiskundige modellen die de verspreiding van het virus beschrijven, zijn vanaf het eerste begin gebruikt als ondersteuning van beleid. De overheid, geadviseerd door de rekenaars…
TU flags half mast for safe education (Photo: Marjolein van der Veldt) On Monday 2 November, the French educational system will commemorate the attack on the teacher Samuel Paty that was also an attack on free and safe education. Last Friday, the Dutch Ministers of Education Van Engelshoven and Slob called…
The other elections The world watches like chickens looking at the storm as the Americans express their preference for the Republican President Donald Trump or his democratic challenger Joe Biden today. The average campus dweller has little to say about that. But what TU-Delft staff can vote on today are the…
Survey on Research Integrity Time pressure, strange outcomes, hierarchy, requests for funding – there are many factors that can put pressure on scientific integrity. What are your experiences as a researcher? The NSRI (National Survey on Research Integrity) survey has posed that question to 40,000 researchers in the Netherlands. The survey started…
