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
The planned construction of “several thousand student housing units” will be halted due to the government's decision to freeze social rents in 2025 and 2026, student housing associations warn. Kences, the umbrella organisation for social student housing providers, says it is “shocked” by the cabinet's decision to freeze social rents for two years. “We support
With money tight, fewer and fewer students are willing to take on a board role in an association or join a student council, states a manifesto that was handed over to the Dutch House of Representatives on Tuesday. A delegation from the ISO submitted a manifesto to the House of Representatives on 15 April 2025.
