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View all“There has to be a more efficient way,” Surya Prakash thought while cooking in his dorm room. Ten years later, his efficient ultra hot frying pan is used by a Michelin star chef.
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.
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’.
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?
Sander Otte observes that there are very few situations in which false symmetry takes on such grotesque forms as in the Israel-Palestine conflict. By facilitating a lecture by the Zionist Gil Troy and framing this as ‘freedom of expression’, he argues that the TU is perpetuating inequality.
Higher education institutions will receive hundreds of millions of euros in extra funding for research, innovation and the recruitment of international students. Meanwhile, the basic grant for students living away from home will go up by 50 euros – if the government gets its way, that is.
It is impossible to determine whether sharing the names of four students and one employee with the police ‘might have been justified’. This is stated by the Executive Board, which declines to reveal which agency it has tasked with further investigating the matter. Experts have previously made it clear: the sharing was not justified. Despite the apologies offered, those affected react critically.
For the victims who have seen no accountability and for the staff who still fear to speak, the Education Inspectorate’s departure from TU Delft is not a sign of success, but a premature withdrawal that leaves power structures unchallenged, writes Mahsa Sajedi in this letter to the editor.
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