Hestia grant for 11 refugees Eleven refugees can continue their scientific careers in the Netherlands thanks to a special grant from research financier NWO. Although no so-called Hestia grants were awarded at TU Delft this year, refugee scientists are working there. This is the fourth time the scholarships have been distributed. Due…
Dutch only De komende tijd is wekelijks een podcast te beluisteren over kennisveiligheid op Nederlandse universiteiten. “Samenvattend is de grote vraag: mag je discrimineren als de kennisveiligheid op het spel staat?”, zegt wetenschapsjournalist en radiomaker Saar Slegers die de podcast maakte. Voormalig Delta-redacteur Slegers spreekt in de podcast met Nederlandse en buitenlandse…
Studium Generale and Delta will hold an event for staff and students on TU Delft’s growth plans on the evening of Tuesday 9 May. Neighbourhood residents will also have a say.
The 3mE Faculty will change its name to Mechanical Engineering on 1 January 2024. The names of the bachelor and master degree programmes will not change.
Upon receiving an urgent letter about its growth plans, TU Delft spoke to five residents associations. A meeting with all nine associations is pending.
Delft residents: ‘TU did not hear us on growth plans’ Nine Delft residents’ and neighbourhood associations sent a letter this month expressing their concerns about TU Delft’s multicampus strategy. Among other things, they write that TU Delft has not asked the residents’ associations for their views on the growth plans. In the…
Former Rotterdam rector receives prison sentence The former rector of the former Islamic High School Europe has been sentenced to 28 months in prison. He sold thousands of forged receipts of donations, with which donors could claim tax deductions. The fraud at the non-funded Rotterdam college came to light in 2016. The…
Expulsion of medical student was justified A medical student at Erasmus University Rotterdam was rightly expelled from the study programme when she proved unsuitable for the profession during her internships. This is stated in a ruling by the Council of State. The student started studying medicine in 2007 and obtained her bachelor’s…
Around 26,000 students halted their student loan for a month from 1 January to lock in the current low interest rate on their debt. A TU student came up with that trick.
Letters from TU student in the resistance A new Dutch book about former TU student Piet Groenewege will be published on 1 May. He was in the resistance during World War II and was executed at the age of 22. The book ‘Boerenzoon in het Resistance’ focuses on letters that Groenewege wrote…
