Photo opportunity after the Award ceremony. Pravesha Ramsundersingh is in the middle. (Photo: Echo Awards). Master’s student of Computer Science and former student council member Pravesha Ramsundersingh was awarded the Bèta Techniek Award. The award ceremony was held Thursday 28 November in Amsterdam. Ramsundersingh won the Bèta Techniek Award for organising a conference about social
Research by ResearchNed shows that ‘vulnerable students’ are less frequently involved in extracurricular activities such as a board year or student participation. The long-term study penalty will only increase this gap, warns the student organisation ISO. Financial concerns (in Dutch) are a significant reason for ‘vulnerable students’, such as those from non-Western backgrounds or students
The Schoof Government is not going to give shared student rooms a rent allowance. Housing Minister Mona Keijzer says that it is too expensive and difficult to implement. For years, voices have been calling for students in shared housing to also receive a rent allowance. Their high monthly costs would then go down and student
SP Youth Haaglanden (SP stands for Socialist Party) hung a banner against the long-study fine ('langstudeerboete' in Dutch) on the fences around the tram track-in-construction on Wednesday morning 9 October. The banner did not stay there for long. At 10:45 AM, it was no longer there. TU Delft does not allow these kinds of unannounced
The total student debt is another billion euros higher than last year and now stands at €29 billion, data from the Statistics Netherlands (CBS) shows. Debts have risen rapidly since 2015, when the basic grant was abolished. In particular, the debt of young people aged between 25 and 30 has gone up. It is now
Master's students Sibel Gökbekir (Technology, Policy & Management), TJ Rivera (Architecture and the Built Environment) and Pravesha Ramsundersingh (Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science) have been nominated for an ECHO Award in the STEM category. The ECHO Awards are presented annually by the Center for Diversity Policy with the aim of highlighting the social contributions
The reintroduction of the basic grant has slightly improved the financial situation of students, according to Nibud. As a result, parents are less likely to help pay for their children's studies. The situation of universities of applied sciences, and university students has improved slightly over the past three years. Fewer students have payment plans 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
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
To mark their 130th anniversary, members of study association Stylos (Architecture and the Built Environment) have built a sustainable pavilion. The structure, a meeting place for residents and students, has been developed in the Spoorzone and will remain standing until 27 June. The pavilion consists entirely of different modules that together form a complete structure.
