Members of staff association Prometheus have started an action against cigarette butts lying around. On the smoke-free campus, smoking is surprisingly common, judging by the proceeds. (Photo: Sicco van Grieken) Following an appeal in the Prometheus newsletter, more than 50 member signed up for the clean-up action. On Tuesday 24, Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26
Romanian ‘NGO’ scams DUO A Romanian organisation helped students get fictitious work so that they could apply for study grants in the Netherlands. That was uncovered by Romanian journalists from PressOne. ‘Romanian NGO scams DUO’, is written above an article about it by the Groningen UKrant. But the Romanian students themselves also…
Changes will be made to email and calendar item storage. The mail boxes will move from TU Delft servers to the Microsoft cloud. The Works Council hopes this will be temporary.
New party waltzes into Works Council The new party Young Researchers’ Impact (YRI) will enter the Works Council with six seats. The existing parties – FNV, Democratisch Beleid (DB) and Academisch Belang (AB) – will get six, eleven and two seats respectively. This is the provisional result of the or elections held on…
‘Colleagues mourn Erasmus lecturer Jurgen shot dead’ headlined the AD daily on Thursday evening, 28 September. It now turns out that the mourning extends to TU Delft.
The last few weeks have seen a coming and going of students in the pavilion on the Van der Burghweg. It is ‘constitutieborrel’ time. Are the new standards acceptable?
Dutch only Erik Huisman, tot voor kort admission officer bij Education & Student Affairs van de TU Delft en daarvoor redacteur bij Delta, geeft op 3 oktober in de aula een lezing over zijn leven met kanker. Door zijn ziekte moest Huisman stoppen met werken. Lezingen geeft hij zo nu en dan. Die in…
‘Study drug not illegally imported’ One in 20 students sometimes use drugs like Ritalin without a doctor’s prescription, research (in Dutch) into their mental health and substance use by the National Institute of Public Health (RIVM), the Municipal Health Service (GGD) and the Trimbos Institute showed last year. How do they get it, the…
Students: ‘We can’t make ends meet like this’ Student organisations are critical of the Budget Memorandum that the Dutch government published on Budgey Day, 19 September. The government has forgotten about students, the National Students’ Union (LSVb) believes. The poverty measures announced would hardly help them. The LSVb considers the energy allowance of…
Twenty climate scientists and economists from eight Dutch universities are calling on politicians to end tax benefits for large consumers of fossil fuels. Fossil subsidies are the most extreme inconsistency in government policy ever, write leading economists and climate scientists in an opinion piece (in Dutch) in national newspaper Financieele Dagblad. “It is like turning on…
