For Delft students, the room shortage is an important issue in the upcoming municipal elections, according to a Delta Instagram poll. All Delft political parties address student housing in their election plans, though this does not always lead to innovative ideas.
Management assistants at TU Delft want to earn as much as newly hired colleagues. That’s why on Tuesday morning they handed a petition—signed 405 times—to the Executive Board. “As individuals, we haven’t succeeded in getting a pay raise, but as a group we’re stronger.”
The Delft city council adopted two motions on pick your housemate practices on Thursday evening, 5 March. The vote followed a forty five minute debate. “The horror stories and worst case scenarios aren’t really grounded in fact,” said councillor Simon de Rijk, one of the few opponents of the motions.
A modular student housing complex containing eight hundred studios may be relocated from Amsterdam’s Zuidas district to the TU Delft campus.
With the municipal elections approaching, political parties met on Thursday evening with the VeRa, DUWO director Jelle van Kempen and students to discuss the new pick‑your‑housemate policy DUWO is developing. Right next to the town hall, a large group of Delft students demonstrated against the proposed changes.
PhD candidates at TU Delft sometimes have to wait so long for their defense that their visas expire or job applications are jeopardized. A simplified PhD ceremony and the addition of an extra beadle — both negotiated by the Works Council — are expected to ease the pressure. And not a moment too soon, because the real wave of PhD defenses is still to come.