Due to Tuesday’s nationwide train strike, the planned protest against education budget cuts will not go ahead. Trade unions and activists had intended to voice their opposition to the government’s planned cuts to higher education and research at a demonstration on Dam Square in Amsterdam. Solidarity “We fully support the right to strike and want
Dutch universities are collaborating with Israel on 28 projects funded by the European Union that could have a military application, according to an investigation by Follow the Money. Brussels is reviewing whether such collaborations should be allowed to continue.
The fall of the Dutch cabinet will not yet change the cuts in education and research, warn the trade unions. On Tuesday 10 June, they will hold a large demonstration at Dam Square in Amsterdam. Next Tuesday between 12 PM and 2:30 PM, students, teachers, researchers, support staff and sympathisers will protest against the cuts
University rectors are concerned about academic freedom in the Netherlands and want to start a broad dialogue about it. “The freedom to think and speak is under threat, from outside and from within.”
On the day the Dutch cabinet fell, minister Keijzer withdrew the controversial bill to freeze social rents. The Dutch student union LSVb is annoyed that students will now also have to pay up to 5 per cent more rent from 1 July. Duwo Student flat Balpol 4. (Photo: Thijs van Reeuwijk) The Spring Memorandum stated
Twenty-seven and a half percent of the students at TU Delft shared their thoughts about their degree programmes and TU Delft in the National Student Survey. It turns out that they are quite satisfied.
The language test proposed by the Dutch cabinet will not go ahead: a majority in the House of Representatives voted in favor of a motion last Tuesday to scrap it. The test could have affected four of the sixteen bachelor’s programmes offered by TU Delft. It would have meant that these English-taught bachelor’s programmes would
The Trump administration has stopped issuing visas to foreign nationals who wish to study at Harvard University. Current international students must also transfer to another university or risk losing their residence permits. At present, 116 Dutch students are enrolled at Harvard, including four from TU Delft.
While TU Delft finished second last year, this year the university has dropped seven places in the SustainaBul sustainability ranking. Just like last year, university of applied sciences Van Hall Larenstein takes the gold. For the fourteenth time, the organisation Studenten voor Morgen has assessed sustainability in higher education. What is the vision of universities and
The number of international students in Dutch higher education is growing by just 3 percent this year. That is the smallest increase in a decade, according to the internationalisation organisation Nuffic. Contrary to this national trend, technical universities are seeing strong growth. At the start of the 2024–25 academic year, a total of 131,000 international
