According to four professors and an Assistant Professor, the government’s budget cuts targeting international students violate European law. The government is concealing the fact that it is making an unlawful distinction between Dutch and European students.
An initially peaceful demonstration at the Delft Career Days on Tuesday ended up as a blockade of the main entrance to the Aula. Ten people were arrested for breaching the peace and one is suspected of assault. The protesters were protesting against the presence of fossil fuel and weapons companies.
The TU Delft unions are watching the compulsory redundancies at the University of Twente with concern. Dozens of jobs are being cut in a single faculty to save EUR 6.2 million. TU Delft needs to save EUR 79 million. Will that cost hundreds of jobs? The unions feel there’s a lack of vision and want a new Executive Board to develop this first.
TU Delft is facing serious cutbacks: up to EUR 79 million per year from 2028. The Executive Board does not rule out staff dismissals. Much will depend on the plans to economise by 10% that all faculties and services have to make in the next few months.
A baseline measurement will be done to show how TU Delft staff is experiencing social safety. This is what TU Delft wrote in the update of the social safety plan of action as required by the Inspectorate of Education. The Inspectorate will start its progress assessment this Monday.
TU Delft intends to press charges in a case of a former PhD candidate who has made negative statements on social media about the supervision during his unfinished PhD trajectory at TU Delft. The university announced so in a release on their website. The spokesperson did not provide further details on the exact grounds for
It was a year of academic achievements, heroes, turbulent education policy in The Hague, and above all, a disastrous report about the lack of social safety. Let’s look back at Delta in 2024. We will be back on 6 January. We wish you a wonderful festive season!
Delft Matters (DM), the TU Delft magazine for alumni, staff members and students, will no longer be published on paper from July 2025. Instead, it will be published online. DM’s predecessor, Delft Integraal, was first published in 1984 with a print run of 6,000. The print run is now about nine times more.
Ninety-nine physics demonstrations for free, that’s what the latest TU Delft’s open interactive textbook has to offer. Complete with videos and educational notes for students and teachers alike. “Why not let others benefit from years of work?”
