‘Students duped by complex institutions’ Universities and universities of applied sciences are a legal jumble of legal entities, says the Inspectorate of Education in its report (in Dutch) Verwarring in Veelvoud (confusion in multitude). Even lawyers are getting lost. This is ultimately to the detriment of students and staff. The inspectorate finds that ‘current…
TU Delft plans to open a branch in Rotterdam which should become ‘a full campus with a substantial number of students’. In Delft, student numbers are to shrink from 2026.
Collection campaign for ‘unpaid’ teacher A lecturer in mathematics at TU Eindhoven was fired in 1995, but he himself thinks very differently. For 332 months he has been teaching students unpaid. One of them started a fundraising campaign, which has already raised more than 7,500 euros. Gert Regterschot’s lessons are wildly popular,…
Climate activists blindfold Delft statues Extinction Rebellion Delft climate activists have again blindfolded statues in their city on Sunday 11 June to draw attention to the climate crisis. Among the eight statues were Willem de Zwijger at Prinsenhof and the busts of J.C. van Marken & Agneta van Marken in Agnetapark. They were…
TU Delft wants to attract more Dutch students from migrant backgrounds, but CBS research shows that it it is not doing badly. What can still be improved?
Attention, apply for the basic grant yourself! From 19 June, students will have to apply to DUO for the basic grant themselves if they are entitled to it. They will not receive it automatically. After all, it is a ‘loan’, which is only waived if students graduate within ten years. With a campaign…
Symposium and talkshow on knowledge security Why is knowledge security important, how should a researcher or university guarantee it and how do TU Delft’s ‘industrial research partners’ view it? That is the subject of the English-language symposium ‘Knowledge Security: Why, how and the industrial perspective on collaboration’ that will take place in the…
Global support recognition and rewards We need to start ‘recognising and rewarding’ scientists in a different way, say 65 research funders from around the world in a joint statement. The distribution of research funds should not just be about numbers of publications and citations, but about ‘broad and holistic ways of recognition and…
The IO Festival on 2 June will not be held at Industrial Design Engineering. This was decided on the day that the preparations would start. “It was a hard pill to swallow.”
New party enters Student Council Dé Partij will enter the Central Student Council with one seat. This is at the expense of Oras, which drops from six to five seats. Lijst Bèta remains at four seats. This is what the central election committee reports. Oras also lost a seat last year,…
