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)…
Library’s own climate problem Plastic foil shield the monitors from dripping water. (Photo: Jos Wassink) Last week’s heat led to the closure of the Glass Room and the Blue Room of the TU Delft Library on Sunday. Building management explains: ‘Due to the heat of the past few days, condensation has formed…
Room shortage shrinks for a while For the first time in years, the shortage of student housing is shrinking. But that is only temporary, warn student housing providers. Now that the basic grant is back, more students will want to live in student housing. Since the introduction of the loan system in…
New Supervisory Board member The TU Delft Supervisory Board has a new member: Paul Verhagen CFO and member of the Management Board of chip producer ASM International. Verhagen studied at Tilburg University in the 1980s and worked for Philips and Fugro. As usual, he was appointed by the Minister of Education for a…
Elections at only one Personnel Committee, though, more candidates Elections will be held at only one Personnel Committee (the local Works Council) on 3 and 4 October, and that is at QuTech. There are as many seats as candidates there, but because one seat is standardly occupied by a member of the central…
New communications director has started Carola de Vree-van Wagtendonk is TU Delft’s new communications director as of 1 September. She already knows TU Delft as a resident of Delft and former head of communications for the municipalities of Rotterdam (2019-2023) and Delft (1998-2005) and her position as team head of communications at research…
Landlords bypass rules with group contract More and more, students are on joint housing contracts for the whole student house, research from NOS op 3 shows. This way, landlords circumvent the rules. By doing so, they are able to charge higher rents for rooms. Especially in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, students often…
Run on reintroduced basic grant Almost 442 thousand students have now applied for the new basic grant. That is almost seven thousand more than expected, while applications are still open. The previously expected number of 435 thousand was only a forecast, says the DUO spokesperson. It was based on applications in previous years…
Aspiring Delftsch Studenten Corps members made Delft a little greener (Photos: Roel Dijkstra / De Papaver) The introduction periods (KMT) at the student associations take place largely out of view of the cameras, so when prospective members volunteer in the city, it provides unique footage. The Delftsch Studenten Corps sent forty prospective members…
