TU Delft is on the right track to achieve lasting improvements in social safety, according to the Education Inspectorate, two years after it identified mismanagement there. What exactly did that first report say, and what happened after that? A recap of a turbulent period in six acts.
The care for employees has been sufficiently restored and the mismanagement at TU Delft has been resolved. This is the conclusion reached by the Education Inspectorate. The Executive Board endorses these findings and pledges to continue improving social safety.
TU Delft employees who voice concerns about sensitive partnerships, governance decisions, or workplace conduct often find themselves on their own. That is the view of three organisations that believe things need to change. In an open meeting on 22 April, they aim to explore how. The organisers of ‘Our right to integrity and safety’ on
The Communications Department will only be recruiting temporary staff in 2026. The department wishes to retain the flexibility to ‘organise things differently’ once it is clear how it will proceed with artificial intelligence (AI).
The damage caused by recent vandalism to TU Delft buildings could amount to EUR 1 million, according to the Executive Board. It has reported the incident to the police.
The Delft Young Academy (DYA) says that assistant professors in the Academic Career Track (ACT) can get caught in the crossfire due to shifting power dynamics. The DYA has identified sixteen cases in which disagreements between ACTs and their PhD candidates or students escalated into social safety complaints. In these instances, procedures were unclear and managers took abrupt action. The DYA is calling for more transparent reporting and investigation processes.
The Executive Board of TU Delft offers its apologies and is ordering an external investigation into possible irregularities within its agreement with the police. It also issued a striking request.
Terminate the agreement governing the sharing of personal data with the police. That is the advice the TU Delft Works Council has given to the Executive Board. Pressure is also coming from another direction: on Wednesday, the GroenLinks and PvdA city council parties submitted written questions regarding the future of the agreement.
Delta recently revealed that TU Delft and the police have had a covenant in place for years that regulates the sharing of personal data. What does it say, what went wrong in 2024, and what does Amnesty International think about it? Delta took a closer look.
