NWO's ISAAC application system has been down for almost a week. They first called it a glitch, but now the research funder is reporting a cyber attack. The application system will remain offline for security reasons until at least Monday 26 August. There have been ‘attempts to get in’, says an NWO spokesperson, ‘but they
The OWee is around the corner and soon everyone will be studying and working hard again. But a lot happened in higher education over the summer holiday. Read a overview below.
In September, employees of Dutch universities will get a salary increase of 3.7 percent and a one-off payment of 300 euros. In January, salaries will be increased by another one percent. Social safety will also be improved. What do the local TU Delft unions think about this?
Unions are disappointed that the negotiations for the collective labour agreements for universities have been difficult. Universities are reportedly reluctant to talk about social safety in particular.
Last year, security measures were taken for 59 scientists because of the hate and threats they receive. Whether this number includes TU employees is unknown.
Hundreds of students, lecturers, higher education executives and opposition politicians took to the streets of Utrecht on Saturday in protest at the new government’s plans to fine delayed graduation and its proposed cuts to higher education and research.
For their investigation into discrimination in the fraud hunt by student funding agency DUO, journalists from Investico, the Higher Education Press Agency, NOSop3 and daily newspaper Trouw have been awarded de Loep. Those awards for the best investigative journalism in the Netherlands and Flanders were presented in Flanders on Friday. There were three winners and
Members of the scientific community are calling on the new government not to cut research funding. PhD students and postdocs urge prospective education minister Eppo Bruins to heed the advice he ‘gave himself’ very recently: invest in knowledge and research.
Despite ‘several incidents’, including at Delta, outgoing minister Robbert Dijkgraaf does not believe that the independence of higher education media is under pressure across the board.
