One in three full professors is now a woman, except at TU Delft, TU Eindhoven and the Twente University. However, the increase in the number of women seems to be stagnating among assistant professors and associate professors.
An educational team from Delft University of Technology has been nominated for the 2026 Dutch Education Awards alongside eight other teams from further education, higher professional education and university-level education. On 25 June, at the Comenius Festival in Nieuwegein, Education Minister Rianne Letschert will announce the top three winners within their respective sectors. The Delft
In his student room in Groningen, a student has been producing equipment for the Ukrainian army for the past year and a half, according to the university magazine UKrant. He is doing this together with two fellow students. Using a 3D printer, they are making drone parts and casings for explosives that Ukrainian soldiers can
The number of American researchers applying for a European research grant has more than doubled in the space of a year. For the ‘advanced grants’ for top researchers, applications have even increased fivefold. It remains to be seen how many American researchers will actually receive a grant. In addition to their standard ERC grant, researchers
Twelve universities of applied sciences are receiving one or more RAAK public grants of up to €375,000. The grant will enable lecturers and other researchers at these universities to spend two years working on solutions to a wide range of societal issues. They will do so in collaboration with public partners, such as hospitals, local
One in four young people is an informal carer. That is not always easy, says lecturer-researcher Hinke van der Werf: “Do I go to a lecture or take my mother to the hospital?”
To protect academic freedom, universities should become more democratic. This emerged as the central theme at a national conference on the subject, in which all universities took part.
Universities and universities of applied sciences are once again being given the freedom to recruit international students in a targeted manner. According (in Dutch) to Minister Letschert, there is ‘no conflict between internationalisation and Dutch interests’. Whereas the previous government had planned to make cuts, the new coalition has opted for a different course and
In future, universities and universities of applied sciences will be permitted to make regular contributions to student sport, culture and campus facilities such as canteens. Minister Letschert announced this in a letter (in Dutch) to Parliament on student wellbeing. Until now, institutions were officially only permitted to spend public funds on education and research. Stricter
“The direction in which the university is heading is no longer determined by our own academics but by consultants,” writes Paula Fikkert, Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Radboud University Nijmegen, in an internal email to all faculty staff. The university is said to be primarily focused ‘on the effective deployment of staff and
