The Inspectorate of Education’s examination into transgressive behaviour at TU Delft is in the analysis phase. The latter’s finances are also being examined.
Director leaves over ‘difference of opinion’ Communications Director Joost Ravoo is leaving TU Delft after more than four years. Reason is a ‘difference of opinion about the execution of the job with the Executive Board’. This is stated in an e-mail sent to Deans and Directors at the end of April. What…
A third party standing in the Student Council elections is a rarity. What is the drive behind Dé Partij and what do Oras and Lijst Bèta think of this new competitor?
Paul Althuis, the driving force behind valorisation at TU Delft, has reached the pensionable age but he will continue to work. We look back and to the future.
A new party has come forward for the Student Council elections of 10 and 11 May. ‘Dé Partij’ thinks the current Council is invisible and wants to change this.
The security services have prevented an Iranian researcher from gaining knowledge at a Dutch TU that could have been used for Iran’s nuclear weapons programme.
Yet another student wins court case over energy allowance A student from Utrecht has won a court case and should still receive the 1,300 euro energy allowance that was available last year for low-income households. The municipality wrongly excluded students as a group – on the advice, by the way, of the cabinet…
Activists blindfold Hugo de Groot “The city of Delft, home to one of the world’s most honoured scientific institutes, should do everything in its power to hold our leaders to account.” This is what Extinction Rebellion Delft writes in a press release accompanying its action on Sunday 16 April: blindfolding the statues…
Action group End Fossil is going to occupy educational institutions worldwide in May. There are also plans in Delft. TU Delft calls it ‘regrettable’.
Higher education minister: more courses in Dutch Dutch as a language of education, science and science communication is relevant throughout higher education, thinks (in Dutch) higher education minister Dijkgraaf. He agrees with the Dutch Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), which asked parliamentary questions about this, ‘that Dutch (or if necessary multilingual) education should be…
