TU Delft students and staff members will drop their work on Thursday 24 April to protest against the proposed cutbacks to higher education. The protest is part of a nationwide relay of strikes in which different universities protest on consecutive days. TU Delft closes the series.
Agonising itch, endless rubbing and laundry. A scabies outbreak is the last thing you want. The scabies mite may be having a field day in student houses, but did you know that you can also get infected through lecture benches?
On Thursday 24 April, TU Delft students and staff will strike as part of the national relay of strikes against the cutbacks in higher education. The decision was taken on Thursday afternoon at a busy action meeting in Pulse held by the FNV and AOb trade unions and the VSSD students union.
Carefully worded but not very concrete – this is how universities, universities of applied sciences and students perceive Minister Eppo Bruins’ policy letter policy for secondary vocational education, higher education and scientific research. Especially the plans for a legal obligation for mutual coordination and capacity funding raise questions.
Requests for lectures and meetings at TU Delft have been rejected several times on the basis of non-valid guidelines. But to students it appears as ‘random’. A ‘mini moral deliberation’ should improve this, but it will take some time.