Higher education institutions have come to the conclusion that campus smoking bans are unenforceable. They either pay the fines or contest them. But the ministry insists they need to act on their ‘responsibility to society’.
Of the 35 Vici grants awarded to top researchers by science body NWO on Thursday, three have gone to TU Delft researchers. A total of 337 proposals had been submitted.
The housing shortage is high in some Canadian cities. It is so expensive to live in Vancouver that one student has come up with a cheaper solution: he lives 700 kilometres away and takes the plane. A student room in Vancouver - Canada's most expensive city - costs an average of 2,100 Canadian dollars a
A former student was fined 225 euros for not stopping his student travel product on time. He went to court and was partially vindicated. The judge reduced the fine to 75 euros because DUO did not warn the student on time. That is according to a May 2022 ruling (in Dutch) that recently came online.
It seems that the measures that the NWO took to address gender inequality may now give female academics a slightly higher chance of getting a Veni grant than their male counterparts. The researchers did not come up with any information specific to TU Delft.
A recruitment drive has raised enough financial support to keep the website ScienceGuide on air, the editors write on their own website (in Dutch). The national website for news and opinion on higher education is in dire straits and threatened to close or disappear behind a paywall as of 17 February. On its website, the
The House of Representatives voted in favour of a special student quota for international students on 15 February. A majority no longer wants to wait for outgoing Education Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf’s bill including the same measure.
The current selection procedures for popular courses for students can exacerbate inequality of opportunity. Higher education must do more to prevent this, says outgoing Education Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf. He anticipates that student selection will assume even greater importance in the future.
In September, the basic grant for those living away from home will go down again, the Lower House decided on 15 February. Students will then receive 302 euros per month. That is 164 euro less than now. This academic year, the basic grant returned after eight years. And for students living in a student room,
