Twelve TU Delft staff members become Academy of Engineering fellow The Netherlands Academy of Engineering (NAE), founded earlier this year, has appointed 62 fellows: people from the ‘top of the engineering ecosystem’. Twelve of them are connected to TU Delft. Besides rector magnificus Tim van der Hagen and dean of Applied Sciences Paulien…
Middle East: X organises ‘conversations to share’ For students and staff who feel the need, X is organising two so-called Share & Care meetings: ‘open conversations about the impact the situation in the Middle East has on you’. On its website, X writes: “The events in the Middle East deeply affect many…
More participation in educational innovations The Dutch parliament voted in favour of a motion to involve co-determination in educational innovations from the start on 24 October. Then fewer things will go wrong, is the expectation. The reason for the motion was an issue at the Fontys University of Applied Sciences, where major…
Many needy students do not know their rights Many students with support needs due to, for example, illness, disability, informal care or top-level sports still do not know their rights. Some institutions have their facilities and information in order better than others. TU Delft finishes in the middle of a study (in Dutch) by…
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.
