This Wednesday and Thursday, students at TU Delft can vote for the Student Council for the coming academic year. There are three parties on the voting slip: Oras, Lijst Bèta and Dé Partij. What are their plans? The party candidates explain.
At least 130 people gathered in front of the Executive Board’s door during the ‘walk-out’ on Monday. The organisers said that they felt solidarity with students and staff members in Amsterdam and Utrecht. They also demanded that TU Delft breaks ties with Israeli universities and the weapons industry. Vice-Rector Rob Mudde had a brief talk with the activists.
On Monday 13 May, students and staff of all kinds of universities and universities of applied sciences plan to protest with a 'walk-out': at 11 AM, they will stop their work and walk outside. In Delft, a similar protest has been announced by a group calling itself Engineering Solidarity Palestine Delft and that is supported
On the orders of TU Delft, Delta took offline an investigative article about the problems at the I&IC Department on Monday 15 April. Apologies from the Executive Board followed on 16 April. Despite the apologies, Delta has not yet published the article again. Read the reasons for this below.
A publication break in May: that is something new. But exceptional times call for exceptional measures. That is why we are taking a week off from that ever-spinning news mill.
The local TU Delft trade unions want to schedule an extra meeting with the Executive Board. They want to know as soon as possible how the Executive Board is going to address doubts about the Undesirable Behaviour Complaints Committee that, according to the Education Inspectorate, exist among employees. They write: "The unions ask you to
Large coal-fired power plants want to switch to wood pellets because coal will be banned in 2030. The Dutch Parliament debated this issue this month. But how sustainable is large-scale biomass burning really?
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.
