TU Delft students can vote for the Student Council for the next academic year on Wednesday and Thursday. There are four parties on the voting slip: ORAS, Lijst Bèta, Dé Partij and TU ResQ. What are their plans? The party candidates speak.
Language use divides the Student Council: Dutch for effectiveness, English for inclusion. An open letter from former Council member Albaraa Khalil has reignited the debate. During his year on the Council, he felt excluded as the only non-Dutch speaking student. The other parties on the Council have expressed shock, but also point to existing agreements and practical limitations.
The pita bread was filled and the grill’s hissing sound heard for the last time. After 11 years, the De Griekse Olijf (the Greek olive) food truck bid farewell to TU Delft on 26 March. Appèl’s, the caterer, new rules made it impossible for the food entrepreneurs Yannis and Esther to continue working on campus. So what happened?
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.
For the first time, a fully autonomous drone has defeated human competitors in an official drone race. A team of students and researchers from TU Delft claimed victory at the A2RL Drone Championship in Abu Dhabi last weekend, outpacing not only 13 other AI teams but also professional human pilots. The Delft drone flew using
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?
Tian Qing Yen (Applied Sciences) won the grand prize in TU Delft's Open Photo Competition with her photograph Moving Spaces. Her photo depicts the tension between freedom and restriction. The winning photos were announced during the Open Education Week 2025. Other winning entries included TU Delft Library by alumnus Carel van der Lippe (Electrical Engineering),
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.
President Donald Trump has signed an order aiming to eliminate the Department of Education. According to the US President the department is wasting billions of dollars. He wants education to become a matter of individual US states again, as it used to be. This affects, among other things, US student funding. Trump believes that the
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.
