More than 160 concerned scientists are urging political party leaders to place the fight against the global climate crisis at the heart of their election campaigns. Among them are eighteen researchers from Delft. They are calling for an end to new gas drilling and fossil fuel subsidies. So far, the ecological crisis has played a
University lecturer Harry Pettit of Radboud University Nijmegen is filing a complaint against Education Minister Gouke Moes. Moes believes that Pettit should be prosecuted. A week ago, outgoing Minister Moes put pressure on Radboud University Nijmegen during the talk show Café Kockelmann. He said the university should file a complaint against the fiercely pro-Palestinian university
Although fewer students consume alcohol, one in four in higher education remains a “heavy drinker”. University students still drink the most, according to figures from the RIVM, the Trimbos Institute and the CBS statistics agency.
It has emerged that an Israeli professor with ties to two Dutch universities has also been deployed in Gaza. In light of this revelation, the University of Groningen has decided to suspend its collaboration with the academic.
The interest rate on student loans will fall from 2.57 to 2.33 percent next year, after three years of increases. This has been announced by DUO (in Dutch). Every year, a new interest rate is set for student loans. For years, this rate was zero percent: students could, in principle, borrow “for free”. But this
It could cost the Netherlands several billion euros if universities in the Randstad are allowed to admit far fewer foreign students. That is the view of five universities in the run-up to the elections. What would happen if three-quarters of international bachelor's students stayed away from the universities of Rotterdam, Leiden, Utrecht, and Amsterdam? And
Radboud University Nijmegen should report a fiercely pro-Palestinian lecturer to the police, according to outgoing minister Gouke Moes (BBB). He is threatening to intervene. “I pointed out an agreement that was made with the universities,” Moes said Friday evening on the TV program Café Kockelmann. In the event of suspected criminal offenses, the universities will
Millions of euros are being channelled into research and innovation via the Ministry of Defence. This will start next spring, when scientists in the field of quantum technology will be able to submit research proposals.
Once again, eight Dutch universities have lost ground in the world rankings published by the British magazine Times Higher Education, including TU Delft. Three scored higher and one university managed to maintain its position.
At a pro-Palestinian occupation of the magnet laboratory at Radboud University Nijmegen on Tuesday, activists were in danger, according to the university. The police arrested 23 protesters. On Tuesday morning, a group of pro-Palestinian activists occupied the Goudsmit Pavilion at Radboud University Nijmegen. They were protesting against three new research projects that the university will
