The internal trade unions at TU Delft pose ‘serious questions about the continuity of the change processes required by the Inspectorate of Education’. Two Board members will only be in office for a relatively short period to come, while the unions believe that changing a culture needs long-term stable leadership.
All TU Delft staff members can share their ideas about creating a safer working environment with the Works Council (OR). The OR has invited all staff to a meeting on Wednesday 20 March. The OR will share the ideas with the Executive Board, that is planning to submit its plan of action to the Inspectorate of Education on 19 May at the latest.
Withdraw from the Future-proof Aviation for the Netherlands manifesto. This call is made by TU Delft alumnus Boris Schellekens in a petition to TU Delft, the University of Twente, and TU Eindhoven. He believes that they are ‘letting themselves be taken advantage of by the aviation lobby’. TU Delft views this differently. “This manifesto is a compromise. And we need it as nothing will happen otherwise.”
The Faculty of Aerospace Engineering has been notified by the Inspectorate of Education that the preferential policy for female freshmen that was supposed to take effect next academic year is not allowed by law.
The so-called Students and Staff for safety have presented their petition by e-mail to the TU Delft’s Executive Board and Supervisory Board on Thursday afternoon, 14 March. They have collected more than 1,000 signatures under it since 5 March. In the petition, the anonymous initiators call on the TU Delft administration not to take the
An anonymous group of people from TU Delft, the Students and Staff for Safety, started a petition against the plan of the Executive Board and the Supervisory Board to bring the Inspectorate of Education to court. Delta interviewed them by email.
Kemo Agović is stepping down as director of TU Delft's Innovation & Impact Centre (I&IC). That announcement came less than a year after he took office. Why he is leaving so soon is not clear. In a short message to TU Delft employees on 28 February, Agović wrote that he wants to take his career
A group of TU Delft employees is calling on the Executive Board and the Supervisory Board in a petition not to file a lawsuit against the Inspectorate of Education.
The Inspectorate of Education’s investigative report covers transgressive behaviour and finances. While the financial management is in order, the Inspectorate still sees ‘room for improvement’.
