Nibud: inflation eats away at basic grant The Netherlands Budget Institute (Nibud) claims that the basic grant helps students, but high inflation is threatening to hit them hard. All the calculations are in danger of being overtaken by inflation, is the conclusion. Students living at home should not have to incur…
Thor, the student rugby club, must leave the Nieuwe Haven to make space for Laga. The search for a new location was so cumbersome that the Municipal Council stepped in.
Fill out this housing crisis questionnaire Have you found a room yet, or are you afraid you’ll have to spend this college year in expensive hotels? Or are you just fed up with your student house and looking for a normal apartment, without dirty dishes from your roommates on the counter? The EenVandaag…
‘Internationals treated as second-class students’ While a quarter of students now come from abroad, there is still too little attention paid to them, according to student organization ISO. They are treated as ‘second-class students’, says president ISO-Terri van der Velden. She also states that international students are ‘running on their fingers’, which worries…
DSC and Virgiel have been issued official warnings by TU Delft. The Executive Board is particularly concerned about DSC: “The culture of the initiation period is not right.”
‘Supervisory boards of student associations are invisible’ Executive Board member Marien van der Meer calls on the supervisory boards of student associations to take ‘more visible responsibility’ in preventing transgressive behavior within student associations. She writes this in a post on LinkedIn. Above the cheerful pictures of the executive board visiting various…
Swimming naked in Delft Are you a student and do you like swimming naked? The Naturist Swimming Association Delft (NZD) is looking for new members and others who want to swim naked occasionally, including students. The club now consists of 51 members and 30 people who come occasionally. According to NZD president…
Maastricht University gets ransom money back Part of the ransom paid by Maastricht University to cybercriminals in 2019 has been recovered in Ukraine. The university is now going to get money back. Hackers had taken Maastricht systems hostage in December 2019 and demanded two tons of ransom money. The university paid that amount…
Vidi grants for eight TU Delft researchers Never before have so many scientists received a Vidi grant from the NWO’s Talent Programme. There were 101 in total, including 8 from TU Delft. The number of applications was also exceptionally high. No fewer than 625 people applied for the grants for experienced researchers,…
