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View allParisa Ghanoni Bostanabad believes that personal integrity, respect and accountability should form part of the criteria for earning a doctoral degree. This is because behaviour that is tolerated at the beginning of an academic career often shapes the culture at later stages.
The Faculty of Aerospace Engineering can give priority to female students in the selection process for the Bachelor’s programme in Aerospace Engineering. This is the ruling of the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights. The faculty intends to introduce the policy from the 2027/2028 academic year.
The care for TU staff has been sufficiently restored, the Education Inspectorate concluded this spring, but the annual reports from confidential advisers, ombudsmen and the social safety reporting point show a tough reality on the ground. Reports remain numerous and complex, and often revolve around the same structural problems: leadership, dependency and a lack of clarity within the system itself.
According to Minister Letschert, universities of applied sciences and research universities are sometimes ‘overburdened’ by students facing problems. However, student organisations see it differently: “Those problems are partly rooted in the education system itself.”
Despite political uncertainty and funding cuts, the national sector plans for universities are performing well, according to three interim evaluations. The message to the government: keep them in place.
Students receive lighter sentences from judges than other suspects. They are less likely to be sent to prison and are given lower fines than people who are not in education.
Delft is set to lose yet another student organisation. YES!Delft Students, the foundation set up to inspire TU students to pursue a career in entrepreneurship, will no longer receive funding from start-up incubator YES!Delft as of next academic year.
Birgit van Driel has always been fascinated by history and looks back at four years of writing columns for Delta. This makes her part of TU Delft’s history.
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