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Education

News in Brief

MSc courses in demand – No electronic voting MSc courses in demandSo far 216 people have applied for an English-language MSc courses, which exactly fifty applicants more than a year ago.

In the last two weeks especially, applications have come pouring in, some 37 in total. “Of course these figures don’t say anything about the final amount of applications, the number of students who’ll be accepted or the MSc students who will actually attend the TU,” says Annemarie Rima, president of the International Office. Twenty-nine applicants declared themselves to be self-financing and forty-four applicants said they could pay a percentage of the tuiton fees. The others applied for a TU grant. The most popular MSc course is Technology, Policy and Management, attracting 59 students. Electronical Engineering (44), Technical Informatics (28) and Architecture (24) are in demand as well.

No electronic voting

During last year’s student council elections, electronic voting experiments were conducted using student ID cards. The system was operated by Wiscit, a team of students working under the guidance of TNO-TPD. The system was their graduation project. Despite some minor problems, the system functioned well, but when TU’s voting committee tried to use the system again this year, they discovered that the system’s technical description was innaccurate. The committee doesn’t know how the program works and report that it will take many months to figure it out. Elections, meanwhile, are scheduled for May 10.

MSc courses in demand

So far 216 people have applied for an English-language MSc courses, which exactly fifty applicants more than a year ago. In the last two weeks especially, applications have come pouring in, some 37 in total. “Of course these figures don’t say anything about the final amount of applications, the number of students who’ll be accepted or the MSc students who will actually attend the TU,” says Annemarie Rima, president of the International Office. Twenty-nine applicants declared themselves to be self-financing and forty-four applicants said they could pay a percentage of the tuiton fees. The others applied for a TU grant. The most popular MSc course is Technology, Policy and Management, attracting 59 students. Electronical Engineering (44), Technical Informatics (28) and Architecture (24) are in demand as well.

No electronic voting

During last year’s student council elections, electronic voting experiments were conducted using student ID cards. The system was operated by Wiscit, a team of students working under the guidance of TNO-TPD. The system was their graduation project. Despite some minor problems, the system functioned well, but when TU’s voting committee tried to use the system again this year, they discovered that the system’s technical description was innaccurate. The committee doesn’t know how the program works and report that it will take many months to figure it out. Elections, meanwhile, are scheduled for May 10.

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