The central and local representation councils at TU Delft are not in agreement with the ‘highly unempathetic’ way in which the Executive Board responded to the Inspectorate’s report. ‘We expected more self-reflection’, writes the Works Council.
Executive Board member Marien van der Meer has ‘the fullest confidence’ that TU Delft can take ‘steps forward’ to ‘also become a top university in social safety’. She said this during her first public appearance since the Inspectorate of Education’s crushing report on social safety was published.
The four unions affiliated with TU Delft do not want the Executive Board to take the Education Inspectorate to court. In a statement to its members, the unions write that many TU Delft employees do not support the board’s view.
After an investigation into possible transgressive behaviour on the work floor at TU Delft, the Inspectorate of Education concludes that there was mismanagement. It says that TU Delft failed at the highest level to ensure social safety. TU Delft calls this investigation ‘flawed’ and a ‘big steps fast home report’ and plans to go to court.
Before TU Delft can start obtaining geothermal energy, the Geothermie Delft company must guarantee that the unusable well it drilled in October will not cause any problems. It also has to check if TU Delft’s research reactor could incur any problems from geothermal energy production.
Last weekend, the Innovative art & technology festival Highlight Delft took place. During a walkable route of exhibitions spread through Delft, visitors explored this year’s theme ‘Do you see what I see’. Delta attended and captured some of these interactive highlights.
Climate activists occupied a hall in the Mechanical Engineering faculty this Monday morning. They stayed until they had to go. Delta was there all day and covered the occupation in this live blog.
ScienceGuide, a Dutch-language website for news and opinion on higher education and research, is in dire straits. The platform will have to shut down this week or disappear behind a pay wall. ScienceGuide can only continue if enough individual subscribers sign up or if higher education institutions take out a collective subscription. Universities will not
Are you a student at TU Delft and do you have an opinion on current topics concerning student life, studying, the ins and outs of TU Delft in general or your faculty in particular? Can you argue your opinion well and are you able to do so once every five weeks in no more than
Given the last election results, the conversation about international students in the Netherlands – as well as the internationalisation of universities in the Netherlands – is as relevant as ever. Will the Netherlands continue to welcome international students? And do international TU Delft students worry about the current political climate?
