As expected, the majority of the Senate voted in favour of cutbacks in higher education. Universities are angry.
As of 2027, anyone wanting to study or work in sensitive areas may only do so after a positive outcome of screening. This is written in the new proposed bill by Eppo Bruins, the Minister of Education. TU Delft itself has screened since 2022.
The Bachelor's degree in Earth Sciences at the Free University (VU) will disappear if it is up to that university. As a result, 37 employees risk losing their jobs. Some students may have to find another programme, they were told last Thursday. The decision is an austerity measure. In the past year, the university announced
International students in Delft don’t immediately pack their bags once they have their Dutch diploma. Five years later, nearly four in ten are still in the Netherlands. Only international students in Eindhoven tend to stay more often. Nationwide, around 30 percent remain after five years, according to a new report (in Dutch) from the internationalisation
Dutch universities awarded 5,595 PhDs over the last academic year – more than ever before. Women have maintained their lead over men. In the 1990s, almost all dissertations were written by men. That has gradually changed, with more and more PhDs going to women. The turning point came in the 2020/2021 academic year, when, for
Datasets disappearing, funding cuts, American colleagues too afraid to answer the phone – many stories are circulating about the consequences of the new US science policies. How are researchers in the Netherlands experiencing the impact of the Trump administration? Investigative journalists from different Dutch media outlets are working together to uncover the concrete effects of
Halfway through the very last debate on the education budget, universities – including a delegation from TU Delft – are protesting outside the Senate. “Don’t do it!” they call out. Will the Senate still deliver a political miracle?
Universities are telling their employees to beware of blackmail by foreign intelligence agencies. Not just at conferences in faraway foreign countries, but also here in the Netherlands.
Scientists who, due to “rising tensions” around the world, are looking to relocate to another country are warmly welcomed in the Netherlands, says Minister Bruins. Research funding body NWO will establish a fund as soon as possible to facilitate this.
How does minister Bruins see the future of higher education and scientific research? In a letter, he sketches the broad outlines: more consultation between institutions on starting or closing study programmes, less government interference in, for instance, social safety, and institutions themselves should take care of the position of young researchers.
