Put knowledge and skills into practice and skip exams? In some programmes, it is possible. On Tuesday, the Lower House accepted the 'Learning Outcomes' bill. This will make it possible to swap certain subjects for practical work experience, allowing students to obtain their degree faster. It also allows them to demonstrate their grasp of certain
In terms of scientific impact, the Netherlands leads the world together with Switzerland, reports publisher Elsevier. This is mainly due to its many publications together with foreign researchers. According to Elsevier, the Netherlands scores 72 percent above world average in terms of scientific citations. The number of publications is also relatively high. Collaboration Especially publications
Bachelor’s students will not be included in the future screening of foreign students and researchers in sensitive fields, promises outgoing education minister Robbert Dijkgraaf.
Greater certainty for tenants. That was the aim of the Indefinite Rental Contracts Act (Wet vaste huurcontracten), which comes into effect on 1 July 2024. Last week it emerged that students have been included in a list of exemptions. What does that mean for your rental contract?
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
