The beer tap stays firmly closed until 17:00 at OWee events, and for the first time all the major Delft student associations are requiring underaged OWee attendees to do a breath test before entering their premises. “We want to send a signal,” says DSB Board Member Tim de Vries.
The fine for taking a long time to finish their studies is causing a lot of stress, worry and is making doing a degree programme in higher education extra hard for students with disabilities, says Marissa van der Tol, Chair of Student Onbeperkt. “And that while we already are 3-0 behind other students.” She argues for students with a disability being exempted from the ruling.
The Executive Board will share the response of the Inspectorate of Education to TU Delft’s Plan of Change with the Works Council and the Student Council. Rector Magnificus and Executive Board Chair Tim van der Hagen promised to do so at the monthly meeting with the representation bodies.
National student organisations have announced demonstrations, the youth branches of political parties have signed an urgent letter to Parliament, and House of Representative members expressed their concerns. There is much resistance against the ‘langstudeerboete’ promoted by the coalition parties. TU Delft student political parties have joined the protesters. “This will damage a group of students that actually need extra support.”
It is a job that some people would kill for: university lecturer at TU Delft. Nevertheless, Volkert van der Wijk exchanged his highly desirable position to become an artist. And he does not regret his decision. “I now have more time for both art and science.”
Rector Magnificus Tim van der Hagen and the rectors of 14 other universities have decided not to break ties with Israeli academic institutions, they write in the Trouw newspaper. TU Delft pro-Palestinian activists respond with disappointment.
In legal proceedings, Cursor editor Bridget Spoor demands that the blacked out sections in an investigative report about censorship are made public. This was reported by Cursor, the journalism platform of TU Eindhoven. In the report, an investigative committee writes that the Executive Board stood in the way of ‘free journalistic operations’.
TU Delft is currently investigating who is behind the DDoS attack at the end of May. In the investigation, it is dependent on the cooperation of hosting companies and cloud services
Dutch scientists in a letter call on Minister Mariëlle Paul to introduce climate education in secondary schools. The letter was sent June 3 and signed by 89 scientists, 20 are from TU Delft. The initiator of the letter, professor of engineering physics Sander Otte also works at TU Delft. 'While politicians spend more than six
TU Delft's accounting was not in order around 2019, writes to the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. According to the newspaper, around that time the university would have appeared poorer than it actually was by fiddling with the financial closure of projects. For example, in one of the financial statements, positive balances would have been written
