Despite the cutbacks that will also affect TU Delft, the preparations for the Rotterdam Campus are going ahead. The Executive Board has approved the so-called Development Plan which will bring the TU Delft branch a step closer. One challenge now is to attract millions of euros from external investors, another is to address concerns among staff and students.
In a new update, TU Delft outlines measures to increase social safety. Meanwhile, the representation bodies are still not satisfied about communications, Students & Staff for Safety is once again speaking out, and a ministerial letter was leaked.
Tobias van Oort, a TU Delft security officer, rescued a man that had landed in the water in his car close to campus on Monday 11 November. How did he keep his head and take action? “I have experienced traffic accidents before.”
Tim van der Hagen, rector magnificus and chairman of the TU Delft, expresses his disapproval of the cutbacks in higher education on LinkedIn. He was supposed to go to the national demonstration in Utrecht. Now that that has been cancelled, he and other university representatives will go to The Hague on Thursday afternoon 14 November
The VSSD Delft students union is coming back to action after a couple of ‘sleeping’ years. The protests against the cutbacks in higher education have put the wind in the union’s sails. The students are calling on everyone at TU Delft to join the protest in Utrecht on 14 November. Delta spoke to its Secretary, Sam de Jong.
Aukje Hassoldt will bid farewell as Dean of Technology, Policy and Management on 7 November. As of 1 December, she will be Dean at the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM). Why is she making this change? And how does she look back at her years at TU Delft? Delta asked her.
The Supervisory Board says that it is taking its responsibility when it comes to social safety at TU Delft. This is what the members told Delta after the CNV trade union had accused them of not taking action.
At the request of rector magnificus Tim van der Hagen, Delta has added a post-script to the interview with him that Delta published on 24 September. The post-script was added after Van der Hagen indicated to Delta on Friday 18 October that he wanted to ‘nuance’ his statement ‘the settlement agreements that I am familiar
The Executive Board has asked deans and directors to continue to be ‘highly aware’ of their incomes and expenses. What does this mean for faculties and services? And how concerned is the Executive Board about the Cabinet’s cutbacks? A meeting with the trade unions brought some clarity about these issues.
The recruitment for vice-rector and vice-chairman of the Executive Board (cvb) is in the ‘stage of CV presentations’. This is what cvb member Marien van der Meer said at a meeting with local trade unions on Monday 14 October. How many responses to the vacancy have been received, she did not say. Earlier, the Supervisory
