Not only TU Delft, but also other higher education institutions offer help to students from Iran. This started even before the war broke out. In total, there are more than 1,200 Iranian students in the Netherlands.
On Tuesday 3 March, the Dutch House of Representatives passed a motion to make it possible to give higher professional education (HBO) students a basic grant when they pursue a university master's degree. HBO students will only receive such a basic grant if they choose to pursue a master's degree at a university of applied
For a hefty fee, Tilburg-based company MyStudentFinance ‘assists’ international students in applying for student finance. Students claim that the company is misleading because, in their opinion, it is not sufficiently transparent about its costs and working methods. However, the Dutch Public Prosecution Service states that this is not a criminal offence.
Limit the number of PhD candidates per supervisor, otherwise you create profkippen: academics with so many PhD candidates under their wings that they no longer have enough time for beginning researchers. This is the recommendation made on Tuesday by the Young Academy (De Jonge Akademie).
A number of employees at DUO will go on strike on Tuesday, 3 March, joining other civil servants across the country. The National Student Union (LSVb) supports the strike, it said in a press release. Because of the strike, DUO may be less reachable by phone. “There will be people answering calls, as always. It
A member of the far-right Groot-Nederlandse Studentenvereniging (Great Netherlands Student Association) in Nijmegen was sentenced last week to two years in prison, one of which is probational, for illegal possession of weapons. The student was arrested last summer on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack. Weapons and ammunition were found in a building near his
Dutch science funding organisation NWO awards Vici grants to 39 leading researchers. Ten percent of all applications are approved. Delft, like VU University Amsterdam and Wageningen University, has been awarded four grants. The Vici grant of up to 1.5 million euros is intended for “highly experienced” scientists. The money will enable them to further expand
The Netherlands must allow positive discrimination in courses with selective admission criteria, particularly if women are in the minority. This is according to the United Nations. In 2024, the AE Faculty was rebuffed when it wanted to give priority to female first-year students.
Young people are more concerned than other age groups about the impact of artificial intelligence on their work. Just over half of them believe that AI could partly or even fully take over their jobs, according to figures from Statistics Netherlands (CBS). The rise of AI is creating considerable uncertainty in the labour market. What
