Terug naar de Nederlandse versie Solar car sweat The Delft students of the Vattenfall Solar Team, which will take part in the Solar Challenge Morocco in a month’s time, have announced that solar car Nuna11 has passed its first laps on Moroccan soil with flying colours. “Now the drivers need to…
Terug naar de Nederlandse versie Rape among students: no government intervention There is ‘no need’ for government intervention in higher education to protect students from sexual assault and rape, writes (in Dutch) outgoing minister Van Engelshoven. She points to ombudsmen, who are already available to students. …
Girls and technology: it can be done elsewhere In Germany, Italy and Greece, almost twice as many girls choose a STEM study programme (STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, mathematics) as in the Netherlands. This emerges from the annual report Education at a Glance by the economic cooperation organisation OECD about the differences…
Wegens ‘ernstige incidenten’ bij de ontgroening verliest de Amsterdamse studentenvereniging A.S.C./A.V.S.V. haar bestuursbeurzen. Ook mag de vereniging dit jaar geen leden werven op de campus. Dat hebben de Vrije Universiteit, de Universiteit van Amsterdam en de Hogeschool van Amsterdam vandaag aan de vereniging laten weten. Ze spreken hun “afschuw” uit over de gewelddadige kennismakingstijd. …
De Amsterdamse studentenvereniging A.S.C./A.V.S.V. schaft dispuutsontgroeningen af en vraagt mishandelde leden om aangifte te doen bij de politie. ‘Hard ingrijpen’ is nodig nadat zes disputen zich schuldig maakten aan ‘stompen, trappen en klappen in het gezicht’ tijdens de ontgroening, schrijft het bestuur in een openbare brief. De betrokken dispuutsleden zijn geschorst. Het bestuur…
NWO stricter on open access More and more often, the results of scientific research are directly available to everyone. Research financer NWO has already achieved 85 percent of all publications in which it is involved, with a total value of one billion euros in 2020. In order to raise this percentage even…
More students from outside Europe A record number of students from outside Europe want to come to the Netherlands to study this year, the Dutch Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) reports. The coronavirus crisis led to a sharp drop in the numbers of such students last year. Students from outside the EU…
More students living in student housing Last year, for the first time since 2016, more university students went to live in student rooms. In 2020, almost 26 thousand students entered the student housing market, whereas in the three preceding years the number was around 22 thousand. This is shown in research (in…
For the fourth consecutive year, a Spinoza Prize, the ‘Dutch Nobel Prize’, goes to someone at TU Delft. NWO calls QuTech Research Director Lieven Vandersypen ‘visionary’.
Additional teaching rooms in tents On Thursday 27 August, the last equipment was installed in two tents on the site of Lijm & Cultuur, located on the Rotterdamseweg. The tents will be available for TU Delft education from the start of the academic year. Read more under the photo. (Photo: Jos…
