Under the new Collective Labour Agreement, university staff will be offered a 2-percent pay rise and 100-euro bonus from 1 July. Staff will also receive a one-off payment of 350 euros in October.
In a short amount of time, a petition against DUWO’s plea for ‘equal opportunities’ in flatmate interviews for housing has been signed 5,100 times. Residents want to continue to decide for themselves who their new flatmate will be.
Princess Amalia will study law at the University of Amsterdam next year, but she will also become a working student in the army. This has been announced by the Dutch Royal House. Princess Amalia arrives at the University of Amsterdam for her first lecture in September 2022.(Photo: RVD/Mischa Schoemaker) The Crown Princess is almost finished
This Friday, research funding organisation NWO has awarded the highest honours in Dutch science. Judith Pollmann and Thijn Brummelkamp will both receive a Spinoza Prize, while Ingrid Robeyns and Ilse Aben will both receive a Stevin Prize. The four will each receive 1.5 million euros. Judith Pollmann (top left), Thijn Brummelkamp (top right), Ingrid Robeyns
The minister of education should have less power, says outgoing education minister Bruins. He fears that populists will want to intervene in higher education after the elections. “Entire faculties could have been cut.”
The fight against temporary contracts at universities hasn’t been very successful for postdocs so far: 89 percent have a temporary contract. There are considerable differences between universities, with TU Delft standing out in a negative way.
Students who were unable to take their exams due to NS (Dutch Railways) strikes are not automatically granted an extra resit. An inquiry reveals that educational institutions follow different policies. And what does the NATO summit mean for TU Delft students coming from outside the city?
As new elections approach, the Dutch House of Representatives sometimes puts plans and bills on hold, but not the Internationalisation in Balance bill, parties have agreed. The influx of international students and the increasing use of English in higher education have been contentious political topics for some time. The previous Minister of Education, Robbert Dijkgraaf
Nine out of thirteen Dutch universities have gained ground in the global rankings published by research agency QS. TU Delft remains the highest-ranked university in the Netherlands, climbing two places to number 47. Thursday, the new QS World University Rankings 2026 were released. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) once again takes the top spot.
Fifteen researchers and students have been denied dispensation to do specific subjects and projects at a Dutch university or university of applied sciences in the past five years. This was because, after screening, there was too high a risk of leaking sensitive knowledge. In total, universities and colleges applied for exemptions for over two thousand
