The police should not be using force to remove protesters from university campuses, says the Dutch Student Union (LSVb), which has launched an anonymous reporting point for such incidents. University administrators argue that in some cases, they feel compelled to call in the police. Last week, injuries were reported during the removal of pro-Palestinian protests
Dutch government spending on research and development will fall by fourteen percent in the coming years. Spending will go from 9.7 billion in 2024 to 8.4 billion in 2029, according to the annual measurement by the Rathenau Institute. Cabinet policy The causes lie with cabinet policy. The government is making significant cuts to the National
Is abseiling from the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering on your bucket list? Good news! You can do it on Wednesday 14 May from 11:00 to 17:00. Dean of Aerospace Engineering Henri Werij will also descend from the 14-floor building during the lunch break. The event is to mark the 16th anniversary of study association of…
Last week, the European Rail Research Advisory Council announced that Dr Chen Shen won the award for Best PhD Thesis in the field of railway research in Europe. The prize is awarded to encourage research on advancing railways in Europe. Dr Chen Shen completed his PhD in 2023 at the Railway Engineering section of the
Starting in September 2026, students in higher education will pay 2,694 euros in annual tuition fees. This represents an increase of nearly one hundred euros. The fee is increasing in line with the relatively high inflation of the past year. In the current academic year, students pay 2,530 euros and in the 2025/2026 academic year,
This Monday marks eighty years since Delft was liberated from the German occupiers. To commemorate this, everyone is welcome to take part in a special weekend program hosted at the D.S.C. student association on Phoenixstraat in Delft. The home of the traditional student association, the 'Phoenix' society, served as a meeting place for the student
Four professors and a student pastor. During the traditional honours ceremony before King's Day, they received royal decorations for their work at or related to TU Delft. Why did they receive this important award? Karen Aardal is Professor of Optimisation in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science. She received her decoration (Knight
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
Around ten thousand (former) students have received a letter from student finance agency DUO: they will be reimbursed for unjustly imposed fines and the revoked basic grant. But it may take some time. DUO admitted last year, following an investigation by news agency HOP, Investico, NOSop3, and newspaper Trouw, that it had ‘indirectly discriminated’ for
