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.
We’ve got internationalisation under control, say universities. But then politicians need to drop the idea of a ‘language test’ for bachelor’s programmes. In the Randstad (the western part of the country, Eds.), all psychology degrees are going back to Dutch – that’s the universities’ promise. Utrecht’s economics bachelor is switching to Dutch too. On top
For the first time, a fully autonomous drone has defeated human competitors in an official drone race. A team of students and researchers from TU Delft claimed victory at the A2RL Drone Championship in Abu Dhabi last weekend, outpacing not only 13 other AI teams but also professional human pilots. The Delft drone flew using
Making banners, a march to the centre of Delft and free fries. Those items are on the agenda for the strike on Thursday 24 April, the organisation writes on the website of union FNV. On that day, TU Delft students and staff will join hands against the cuts in higher education. Programme for the strike
Harvard University rejects the Trump administration's demands and sees 2.2 billon dollars in federal funds frozen. The university doesn’t want to “surrender its independence”. In response to Donald Trump’s anti-science policies, fear seemed to reign supreme amongst American universities until now. Not at Harvard University, however. By refusing to give in to the demands, this
