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New bill

National Contact Point for Knowledge Security will soon be allowed to process personal data

Column: Dap Hartmann

Hatchet Day

Opinion

The trouble with talking about militarisation at TU Delft

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Student life

City council

Room shortage and elections: big housing ambitions, few new ideas

17 March

For Delft students, the room shortage is an important issue in the upcoming municipal elections, according to a Delta Instagram poll. All Delft political parties address student housing in their election plans, though this does not always lead to innovative ideas.

Opinion

Column: Alex Nedelcu

Logic of security

17 March

Under the guise of maintaining public order, criticism is being stifled, notes Alex Nedelcu. At TU Delft, you don’t even have to commit a crime to be reported to the police.

Off campus

Interview: Peter Kwikkers

Laws, press freedom and oath can protect academic freedom

17 March

How can you protect academic freedom? One of the architects of the Dutch Higher Education and Research Act, Peter Kwikkers, has written a book about it. His book contains proposed legislative texts as well as an academic oath.

Campus

Municipal council elections

Election debate in the Aula: classic Dutch municipal politics with an international feel

16 March

In order to involve international TU Delft students and employees in the municipal council elections, the debate in the Aula was held in English this time. The atmosphere was amicable, but the discussions were hard.

Science

Climate models

‘The message remains the same: sea levels are rising’

16 March

Sea levels are not always calculated accurately, according to a major comparative study by Wageningen University & Research (WUR) and Deltares in Nature. In some places, sea levels are up to a metre higher than previously thought. This means that millions more people are coming into the danger zone. What went wrong? Elevation modeler Maarten Pronk explains.

Campus

Sharing of personal data

Executive Board orders review of agreement between police and TU Delft

16 March

The Executive Board of TU Delft offers its apologies and is ordering an external investigation into possible irregularities within its agreement with the police. It also issued a striking request.

Campus

Personal data

Works Council advises TU Delft: terminate agreement with police

13 March

Terminate the agreement governing the sharing of personal data with the police. That is the advice the TU Delft Works Council has given to the Executive Board. Pressure is also coming from another direction: on Wednesday, the GroenLinks and PvdA city council parties submitted written questions regarding the future of the agreement.

Campus

Wage gap

‘Equal work, equal pay’: management assistants at TU Delft protest

13 March

Management assistants at TU Delft want to earn as much as newly hired colleagues. That’s why on Tuesday morning they handed a petition—signed 405 times—to the Executive Board. “As individuals, we haven’t succeeded in getting a pay raise, but as a group we’re stronger.”