Dossiers
The feeling at the Our Right to Integrity and Safety event last Wednesday was that speaking out against TU Delft’s links with Israeli institutions is not free of danger. But what can staff members do about it?
Rather than speaking selectively about political developments in other countries, universities, including TU Delft, should adopt and publish clear policies setting out when they speak publicly, when they remain silent, and what principles guide those decisions. That is what a group of Iranian TU Delft employees write under the name Minab in this opinion piece.
Trade unions AOb and FNV are calling for a 6-percent pay rise at universities, and for salaries to automatically rise in line with inflation from now on. They also want to improve the situation for pregnant employees.
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.
This week the national council of student associations LKvV sent an urgent letter to DUWO, the housing association, about the pick your housemate-policy. That’s more than one-and-a-half months after the Delft and Leiden municipal councils adopted motions about the proposed system. What was written in the motions and what will DUWO do next?
Who would dare to speak out critically when there is a risk that your university might pass your name on to the police? In times of democratic erosion, universities should not go along with the status quo but should resist, argues Sander Otte.
China is attempting to steal scientific and technological knowledge in the Netherlands, warns the AIVD intelligence service in its latest annual report. This threat has ‘both broadened and deepened’.
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.”
