Free mooc certificates popular at TU Delft Nearly a thousand students and over 700 TU Delft staff have used the opportunity in recent months to obtain a free certificate for a mooc from edX. Moocs are open online courses. EdX is a platform on which TU Delft, but also institutions such as Harvard and MIT,…
What will the campus look like after 1 September? Who may be there and who has to stay at home? TU Delft has a preferred scenario, says Rector Tim van der Hagen.
Leuven: exams in an old brewery Hundreds of Flemish students at the same time are already taking exams on campus. The University of Ghent, for example, is organizing no less than 143 thousand exams in 200 different halls until the beginning of July, reports Het Laatste Nieuws. By far the largest location is the specially…
Will European research billions survive? If it is up to the European Commission, the corona crisis will not affect the EU’s research and innovation budget for the next seven years. Wednesday, the European Commission presented its new budget proposal of €1,100 billion, together with the €750 billion reconstruction programme due to the corona crisis.…
Cambridge: all lectures to be online-only next academic year In the corona crisis, Cambridge University is looking more than a year ahead. Until the summer of 2021, all lectures will be online, the top university has announced. It is the first top university to make a decision about this. Most other institutions are not yet officially…
Million-dollar deal with Elsevier on open science Dutch universities and research institutes have reached an agreement with scientific publisher Elsevier on open access to publications and open science. Dutch researchers can now publish in open access in 95 percent of the Elsevier titles. Their articles will then be freely accessible to everyone, including interested outsiders.…
Want to study abroad? Want to study in Paris, Berlin or Barcelona for a few months? The question is, when will that be possible again? Dutch universities are considering postponing the international exchange for a while. The University of Amsterdam has already made the decision: students cannot go abroad on exchange after the summer holidays.…
Low turnout student council elections Despite the fact that the elections for the student council were as always held online this week, the turnout is low. 27.9 percent of TU Delft students voted for the council for the academic year 2020-2021, compared to 35.4 percent in 2019. There has been a downward trend for some…
Graduates get 535 euros back Anyone who graduates between September 2020 and the end of January 2021 will receive three months’ tuition fees back. For university students this is 535 euros. The Ministry of Education assumes that, without the corona crisis, many of these students would be ready sooner, but this will not be determined…
