TU Delft intends to press charges in a case of a former PhD candidate who has made negative statements on social media about the supervision during his unfinished PhD trajectory at TU Delft. The university announced so in a release on their website. The spokesperson did not provide further details on the exact grounds for
In the trial of Fouad L., the prosecution is demanding 30 years in prison supplemented with preventive detention preventive custody ('tbs' in Dutch). Fouad L. killed three people and set fire to his home and the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam on September 28, 2023. The victims were his neighbor, her daughter and a teacher from
In a damning report on art university of applied sciences ArtEZ, the Inspectorate of Education speaks of mismanagement. There would be neglect of care for students and staff. The news leaked on Monday via newspaper NRC and the report (in Dutch) published on Tuesday confirms the allegations. The inspectorate's investigation focused, among other things, on
The hackers who attacked Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) had access to the login credentials of a student and a staff member, reports Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant (in Dutch) on Friday based on anonymous sources. TU/e refuses to confirm or deny this when asked by the news agency HOP. The university's spokesperson stated that no
This week, the new contemplation room in the TU Delft Library has opened. The space is located on the third floor and is accessible to students, staff and visitors who want to meditate, reflect or rest. It is the second contemplation room on campus; the first is located at sports and cultural centre X. A
When distributing research funding, reviewers and collaborators should not use AI programmes such as ChatGPT and Perplexity. This is stated in a new guideline from research financer NWO. Last year, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) already drew a line in the sand: juries, referees and committee members were not allowed to use generative
Education at TU Eindhoven has been resumed on Monday 20 January after the cyber attack that had started eight days earlier. The attack targeted SURF, the ICT partnership of the Dutch education sector. The attack hit TU Eindhoven hard, forcing the university to shut down all education for a week. The so-called DDoS attack was
A large-scale cyber attack is causing network problems at Dutch educational institutions such as TU Eindhoven, Maastricht University and Fontys University of Applied Sciences (in Dutch). At TU Delft, it remains at 'some inconvenience' for the time being. The cause of the problems is a large-scale DDoS attack on the network of SURF, the ict
Lecturers, researchers, and other staff in higher education are planning to go on strike to protest the Government's budget cuts. It will be a ‘relay strike’. The idea of the relay is for a different university or university of applied sciences to strike each time. The FNV union informed its members that ‘How each institution will
The unions have finally received a response to their ultimatum to Education Minister Eppo Bruins. He is willing to meet with them. A word of warning, though: fewer budget cuts are not on the table. The unions' ultimatum expired last Saturday. They demanded that all cuts to higher education and research be scrapped, otherwise strikes
