TU Delft’s executive board (EB) has cancelled a planned meeting with Students and Staff for Safety. Both parties did not agree on the conditions to hold a ‘safe conversation’ and how to do so transparently, but say they are still open to talk. The group, which was formed by students and staff in response to…
People with a higher education level are more willing to donate organs after their death. This is according to new figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Among the academic educated people, 46 percent consent to organ donation, compared to only 23 percent of the practically trained people. In contrast, 40 percent of the
As tech studies become more popular, this could come at the expense of healthcare and education programmes, acknowledges education minister Eppo Bruins. This is partly why technical programmes continue to bring in students from abroad. Last spring, chip manufacturer ASML threatened to leave the Netherlands because of restrictions on the influx of foreign students and
In more and more student cities, secondary vocational education students (MBO) take part in the general introduction days. But they are not yet welcome everywhere, or they do not know how to find the introduction days. The website of the OWee, Delft's introduction week, talks about a ‘multi-day event for all upcoming first-year students of
According to a university spokesperson, no security guards in plainclothes walk around the campus of TU Delft nor has the university ever considered doing so. “We use two parties who are always recognisable. Our regular campus security is provided by G4S. But event security is also always recognisable,” said the spokesperson. Commotion arose on Monday
The Students and Staff for Safety and the Executive Board will meet on 29 August. It is the first time the two parties are going to get together since the action group was formed in March this year. Since its formation, the Students and Staff for Safety have anonymously called on the Executive Board (cvb)
NWO's ISAAC application system has been down for almost a week. They first called it a glitch, but now the research funder is reporting a cyber attack. The application system will remain offline for security reasons until at least Monday 26 August. There have been ‘attempts to get in’, says an NWO spokesperson, ‘but they
This year's introduction week has 2987 participants. That is what the OWee board told Delta. This is according to expectations, according to the board. Based on previous editions, board members expected 'around three thousand' prospective students to attend. For the Introduction Programma for master's, exchange and bridging students 1,235 students signed up. The number of
The Veni grant from research financier NWO is intended for recently graduated researchers. The stipend gives them three years to further develop their research ideas. They receive a grant of up to EUR 320,000 for their work. Last July, NWO announced the results of the 2023 applications. There were 1,308 applications of which 174 were
In a summery metaphor, QuTech presents new research results as jumps from one trampoline to the next. QuTech is TU Delft and TNO's institute for quantum computer development. In reality, the news is not about its athletic staff, but about spins read-more-closed read-more-open that jump from one quantum bit (qubit for short) to another. The
