New initiatives against student nuisance      On Monday evening 23 May Delft residents and students from the Wippolder met for the second time to work on solutions to counteract nuisance caused by students. In small groups they worked on a short educational movie, a talk show, a flyer campaign and other ideas. “I found…

  On Monday evening Delft residents and students from the Wippolder met for the second time to work on solutions to counteract nuisance caused by students. In small groups they worked on a short educational movie, a talk show a flyer campaign and other ideas. “I found it an enormously constructive evening,” says Marie-José Hijnekamp,…

No mandatory disclosure for universities     The Cabinet does not want to institute mandatory disclosure for universities and companies working with Chinese entities in risk areas. This emerged from answers to Parliamentary Questions (in Dutch) posed by House of Representatives members Sjoerd Sjoerdsma and Alexander Hammelburg (both of the D66 party) after an article appeared…

Do plants improve study results?     Does it help to have a lot of plants in the house when there are heavy exams coming up? The University and College of Ghent are doing research on this. They kicked off the project this week.   The researchers want to know whether plants have a positive…

Russian students intimidated      Several Russian students and a scientist in the Netherlands have been phoned asking about their loyalty in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. The organisation Universities of the Netherlands (UNL) and the Dutch Ministry of Education confirm this.   “In case of a threat, we advise to report it, but this is usually…

Het kabinet wil niet morrelen aan het hoge collegegeld voor tweede studies. Daardoor blijven leraren en zorgmedewerkers duizenden euro’s betalen als ze zich willen omscholen. Sinds 2010 kan zo’n tweede studie duizenden euro’s aan instellingscollegegeld kosten, tenzij je hem oppikt voordat je je eerste studie hebt afgerond: dan mag je tegen het gewone…