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View allThe government believes landlords should be able to offer students short-term tenancy agreements. It also proposes allowing rents for properties in the city centre to rise. The Woonbond has criticised the plans.
On Saturday 9 May, solid, expertly constructed wooden obstacles will dominate the campus. Around a thousand participants will take part in SurvivalStrijd, the annual survival run organised by student sports outdoor sports association Slopend. Delta observed a preparatory training session: “This is where you learn the basic techniques.”
Even after losing two court cases, VU University Amsterdam continues to charge international students a housing fee for arranging accommodation. TU Delft also charges a housing fee.
TU Delft is on the right track to achieve lasting improvements in social safety, according to the Education Inspectorate, two years after it identified mismanagement there. What exactly did that first report say, and what happened after that? A recap of a turbulent period in six acts.
The care for employees has been sufficiently restored and the mismanagement at TU Delft has been resolved. This is the conclusion reached by the Education Inspectorate. The Executive Board endorses these findings and pledges to continue improving social safety.
The government is calling on universities and universities of applied sciences to do more to combat antisemitism and is allocating €350,000 for this purpose. This follows a report by the taskforce on combating antisemitism, which states that Jewish students and staff are more likely to feel unsafe. TU Delft says that the recommendations largely align with existing measures.
Dap Hartmann has a great love of proper books and magazines. But after decades of collecting, they’re taking up a lot of space. Throwing them away is out of the question, and giving them away isn’t an option either, because who wants paper in this digital age?
The Education Inspectorate has once again warned that neither the NVAO, the higher education accreditation body, nor the Inspectorate itself can intervene at any stage if the quality of teaching on a course goes wrong. The examination boards only partially make up for this shortcoming.
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