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Tobias van Oort, a TU Delft security officer, rescued a man that had landed in the water in his car close to campus on Monday 11 November. How did he keep his head and take action? “I have experienced traffic accidents before.”

Tim van der Hagen, rector magnificus and chairman of the TU Delft, expresses his disapproval of the cutbacks in higher education on LinkedIn. He was supposed to go to the national demonstration in Utrecht. Now that that has been cancelled, he and other university representatives will go to The Hague on Thursday afternoon 14 November

The VSSD Delft students union is coming back to action after a couple of ‘sleeping’ years. The protests against the cutbacks in higher education have put the wind in the union’s sails. The students are calling on everyone at TU Delft to join the protest in Utrecht on 14 November. Delta spoke to its Secretary, Sam de Jong.

At the request of rector magnificus Tim van der Hagen, Delta has added a post-script to the interview with him that Delta published on 24 September. The post-script was added after Van der Hagen indicated to Delta on Friday 18 October that he wanted to ‘nuance’ his statement ‘the settlement agreements that I am familiar

The Executive Board has asked deans and directors to continue to be ‘highly aware’ of their incomes and expenses. What does this mean for faculties and services? And how concerned is the Executive Board about the Cabinet’s cutbacks? A meeting with the trade unions brought some clarity about these issues.

TU Delft’s unions want to be part of the discussion on new measures to improve social safety right from the start. This transpired on Monday at a meeting between the unions and the Executive Board in which the contact point on social safety was discussed in detail.