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By early October, one in four TU Delft managers had completed the one-day course Leadership and Social Safety. Another quarter had signed up. The unions are calling for the training to be mandatory, but the Executive Board is sticking to persuasion rather than compulsion.
In addition to all the developments in Delft, work on Campus Rotterdam is continuing at full speed. The Executive Board has hired an external consultancy firm and the programme team will move into the Groot Handelsgebouw (literally the big trade building) in Rotterdam.
Residents of the X-Ray student flat are concerned about a new parking policy that will take effect on 1 December. Anyone who wants to park their car will now have to pay an hourly rate or take out a monthly subscription. The cost of such a subscription? Sixty euros per month. ‘Absurdly expensive,’ say the tenants.
Higher education without Microsoft? Serious alternatives are being explored here and there. However, the challenge is not yet resolved. While the education sector is attempting to break free, Microsoft is taking on more and more tasks.
Prospective buyers need to be quick to get hold of a secondhand jewel at OWee’s first secondhand market. But it may not work for everyone: “I see a lot of good things! But I don’t have a room so I can’t buy anything yet.”
