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Lockdowns, self-tests, home exams, a waste of money… The parliamentary committee of inquiry into the Covid-19 pandemic appeared to be ill-prepared for the hearing with former Education Minister Ingrid van Engelshoven.
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.
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.”
For first-year Mechanical Engineering students, a lot was at stake on Wednesday, June 10. After months of hard work, they were ready: around 700 students, divided over 112 teams with their ‘mechanical boulderer’ at the starting line. Which revolutionary machine will reach the top first? “I’m now at 28 seconds!”
For the first time in twenty years, the number of international students in the Netherlands has fallen slightly, according to the internationalisation organisation Nuffic. Students from Germany and China, in particular, are staying away.
Fewer and fewer students report experiencing excessive academic pressure, according to the National Student Survey. In addition, three-quarters of them are generally satisfied with their study programme. TU Delft students are, on average, slightly more satisfied with their study programme than the national average.
Breathing more calmly and relaxing through a game. According to students of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, it should be possible with the game they developed: Breath of the Bow.
The government wants to reach agreements with universities of applied sciences and research universities to curb the number of international bachelor’s students. But without a language test, the minister has few enforcement mechanisms.
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