De activisten van #NietMijnSchuld hebben op 29 maart een petitie aan de Tweede Kamer overhandigd. Eind 2019 ging deze al online. Initiatiefnemers de Landelijke Studentenvakbond en FNV Young & United verzamelden uiteindelijk 87.866 handtekeningen voor ‘schuldenvrij studeren’. Ze willen een hogere basisbeurs en volledige compensatie voor de pechstudenten die de beurs sinds 2015 zijn misgelopen. …
Study programme bans cum laude Master’s students in medicine at VU Amsterdam will soon no longer be able to graduate cum laude. The master’s programme stopped giving marks last year as well, writes (in Dutch) university magazine Ad Valvas. It is the first medical school in the Netherlands to do so. Master’s students in…
Accreditatieorganisatie NVAO en de Inspectie van het Onderwijs menen dat het hoger onderwijs zich in coronatijd voldoende staande heeft gehouden. “Door een uitzonderlijke inzet en samenwerking gedurende de pandemie is het hoger onderwijsveld erin geslaagd de kwaliteit van het onderwijs in grote lijnen overeind te houden”, schrijven NVAO-voorzitter Sander van den Eijnden en inspecteur-generaal Alida…
‘Voluntary repentance scheme’ for exam fraud Saxion Saxion University of Applied Sciences has set up a ‘voluntary repentance scheme’ for (former) students who have used stolen test questions. If students confess this, they are allowed to finish their exams ‘legitimately’ and the university refrains from imposing sanctions. In February, the university announced that…
IEA calls for car-free Sundays Cycling on the motorway was possible and allowed on 10 car-free Sundays in 1973/74. (Photo: Rob Mieremet / Anefo, Nationaal Archief) Will the car-less Sundays return? If it were up to the International Energy Agency (IEA), yes, especially in cities. It is one of the 10 proposals…
10,000th doctorate at TU Delft On 22 March, Annika Krieger was the 10,000th person to receive a doctorate from TU Delft, reason for TU Delft to give her extra flowers and presents. Krieger obtained her doctorate from the Faculty of Applied Sciences with the research ‘Homogenous reduction by bifunctional manganese catalysis: a quantum…
Student wins Landlord Case for 200 Euros Can a landlord just charge a one-off booking fee of 200 euros, a student from Rotterdam wondered. He filed a lawsuit and won. In 2018, Joris Pijpers, a student at Erasmus University College, came to live in the Rotterdam complex Lucia. Monthly rent: 718 euros for 18…
Sales exhibition for Ukraine (Photo: Prinsenkwartier) Artists from Kadmium and Kunstsuper have organised an art sale for Ukraine in the Prinsenkwartier in Delft. Works from more than 30 artists that are for sale are on display in a pop-up exhibition on the ground floor of the Prinsenkwartier. The artists will donate between…
Kick-off Delft Global Initiative Student Club At the kick-off event, industrial designer and PhD student Karlheinz Samenjo talked about the development of medical products and services in Sub-Saharan Africa. (Photo: Delft Global Initiative). Vice-Rector Magnificus Rob Mudde was impressed with the amount of interest in the Delft Global Student Club (DGSC). “It…
Ministry will tackle students’ mental problems The coronation measures in higher education have been scrapped, but that has not eliminated the mental problems of students. Education Minister Dijkgraaf is working on tackling them, he writes (in Dutch). According to him, the Ministries of Education and Health are working on an ‘integrated approach’ to…
