Through Student in de Zon, Sieb Rodenburg and Berend Krans are helping student houses in Delft install solar panels. “We want to give students the option to be sustainable.”
Are Chinese PhD candidates obliged to report to their embassy? The minister is having that investigated. Sources tell Delta they have to, but do not always take it seriously.
Unions increase pressure on negotiations Universities are still not doing enough against the high workload, unions argue. And things are not progressing with permanent contracts either. On Tuesday 25 April, they will protest at VU University Amsterdam, together with several action groups. The unions are in the middle of negotiations for a…
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…
