From psychology to cancer research: researchers in the Netherlands are increasingly citing publications that do not exist. Since the release of ChatGPT, the proportion of articles containing ‘ghost references’ has increased sevenfold. An investigation by De Groene has also highlighted two cases in Delft.
Eindhoven University of Technology (TU Eindhoven, TU/e) is ending its partnerships with several Chinese universities that have close ties to the Chinese military. Research involving universities in Russia and Iran has already been halted, according to the university magazine Cursor. In December, TU Eindhoven's Executive Board adopted a policy on knowledge security. The aim is
A new policy paper states that the Ministry of Defence wishes to collaborate more closely with educational and research institutions. Discussions regarding the exact terms are still ongoing, including with TU Delft. On the morning of Wednesday 1 July, an innovation centre for start-ups and other smaller businesses will be officially opened there in the presence of Defence State Secretary Derk Boswijk.
A 23-year-old student at Radboud University Nijmegen has been sentenced to six years in prison for raping four fellow students. He must also pay 21 thousand euros in compensation. A total of seventeen women reported rape or sexual assault, according to the university magazine Vox (in Dutch). Five of them actually filed a police report.
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded 22 Advanced Grants of up to 2.5 million euros to leading researchers at Dutch research institutions. Three of them are from TU Delft.
University staff will receive a 3.1 per cent pay rise from 1 July, a one-off payment of over €1,500, and an additional €50 per month. This is set out in a new collective labour agreement. Pregnant employees will also receive better protection.
Lockdowns, self-tests, home exams, a waste of money… The parliamentary committee of inquiry into the Covid-19 pandemic appeared to be ill-prepared for the hearing with former Education Minister Ingrid van Engelshoven.
Fraudsters are operating in increasingly sophisticated ways on the housing market, the student union LSVb observes, and international students in particular are the victims. “Educational institutions must warn people better,” says chair Evy Kras.
According to Minister Letschert, universities of applied sciences and research universities are sometimes ‘overburdened’ by students facing problems. However, student organisations see it differently: “Those problems are partly rooted in the education system itself.”
