‘Study drug not illegally imported’     One in 20 students sometimes use drugs like Ritalin without a doctor’s prescription, research (in Dutch) into their mental health and substance use by the National Institute of Public Health (RIVM), the Municipal Health Service (GGD) and the Trimbos Institute showed last year. How do they get it, the…

Students: ‘We can’t make ends meet like this’     Student organisations are critical of the Budget Memorandum that the Dutch government published on Budgey Day, 19 September. The government has forgotten about students, the National Students’ Union (LSVb) believes. The poverty measures announced would hardly help them. The LSVb considers the energy allowance of…

Twenty climate scientists and economists from eight Dutch universities are calling on politicians to end tax benefits for large consumers of fossil fuels. Fossil subsidies are the most extreme inconsistency in government policy ever, write leading economists and climate scientists in an opinion piece (in Dutch) in national newspaper Financieele Dagblad. “It is like turning on…

Event dedicated to Daphne Stam     Dewis, the women’s network at TU Delft, is dedicating its annual event to planetary scientist Daphne Stam. She revealed in late August that she had left the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering because of what she referred to as the ‘macho culture’. In an interview with Delta a week…

Kinetic artist exhibits at Icke’s home     Inventor, TU Delft lecturer and artist Dr Volkert van der Wijk will exhibit eight moving sculptures as part of the Kunstroute Leiden next week 23 and 24 September.   His work is housed in the Alien Artgallery, also the home of artist Charlotte Icke and emiritus professor…

Uitvinder, TU-docent en kunstenaar dr.ir. Volkert van der Wijk exposeert volgend week 23 en 24 september acht bewegende sculpturen als onderdeel van de Kunstroute Leiden. Zijn werk is ondergebracht in de Alien Artgallery, tevens het woonhuis van kunstenares Charlotte Icke en emiritus hoogleraar astronomie Vincent Icke, aan de Vlietweg 16 in…

Students with disabilities miss out on money  Many Dutch municipalities still provide poor information about the study grant for students with disabilities. Applicants do not always get the financial support they are entitled to. Students who cannot work alongside their studies because of their disability are entitled to study allowance. That amount can amount to…

Support after earthquake Morocco      Many Dutch universities and universities of applied sciences are trying to assist staff and students dealing with the effects of the earthquake in Morocco. They are organising meetings and offering psychological support. TU Delft, in a short message on its website, announced that student advisors and supervisors (for staff)…

CDA voted wrong on study recommendation     In the Lower House, the CDA political party voted wrongly on the plans for changing the recommendation on the continuation of studies. The subject should have been ‘controversial’ after all, according to the Christian Democrats. To newspaper Het Parool, MP René Peters confirmed that he had made…

 Scouts appointed for TU in Rotterdam     The establishment of a programme team marks the start of a new phase for a new TU Delft knowledge ecosystem in Rotterdam, reports the Executive Board in a message to employees. Caspar Chorus (Dean of the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering) and Han Derkx (former ICT director)…