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?
A TU Delft student did a heroic deed on 18 January. He freed a woman from her car that had tumbled head over heels into the frozen canal in front of his house on the Kolk.
If universities are short of money, they may give new assistant professors in permanent employment a lower starting grant than originally agreed.
