SP Youth Haaglanden (SP stands for Socialist Party) hung a banner against the long-study fine ('langstudeerboete' in Dutch) on the fences around the tram track-in-construction on Wednesday morning 9 October. The banner did not stay there for long. At 10:45 AM, it was no longer there. TU Delft does not allow these kinds of unannounced
Ethics professor Sabine Roeser will be taking over duties from Dean Aukje Hassoldt of Technology, Policy and Management (TPM) in mid-November. She will do so in her position as deputy dean. According to a spokesperson, there is no need to appoint an interim dean as the vacancy for dean TBM can be published soon. Rector
The Executive Board sent the first progress report on social safety to the Inspectorate of Education on 1 October. It contains details about measures that are intended to improve social safety.
Heating in eleven TU Delft buildings will remain off for four to six weeks. This is due to two leaks in the campus heat grid. Employees and students are advised to dress in layers now that it is getting colder outside.
Just before the summer holidays, the Plan for Change on social safety was deemed inadequate by the Inspectorate of Education on the grounds that it was too vague and incomplete. The Executive Board said that it sees that assessment as an encouragement, but also felt disappointed and hurt. What is the situation now? “I have left the resentment behind”, Tim van der Hagen said.
Students and Staff for Safety have reported to the Inspectorate of Education, they write on the Change.org website. They criticise the performance of the Executive Board and the Supervisory Board in terms of social safety.
AthenaStudies, the commercial exam training organisation, has to cease its dishonest method of advertising. This was the judgement of the Advertising Code Committee after complaints raised by TU Delft and others.
The CNV trade union has started a campaign on social safety at TU Delft. There are posters at bus stops on and around campus that inform people about a contact point, and trade union staff will walk around campus at lunchtime and talk to people.
The Students and Staff for Safety and the Executive Board will meet on 29 August. It is the first time the two parties are going to get together since the action group was formed in March this year. Since its formation, the Students and Staff for Safety have anonymously called on the Executive Board (cvb)
Reducing the number of students in Delft by offering research and learning opportunities in Rotterdam. This idea should put less pressure on the city and the campus, but we are not yet there. In the meantime, what should be done about the pressure on Delft? And what will the relationship between the various locations be? Delta asked Vice-Rector Rob Mudde and Fred van Keulen, the Dean of ME.
