TU Delft employees could share their ideas about a safer working environment in a meeting organised by the Works Council. “Don’t say that you want everyone to enjoy a good working environment, but say that it is your responsibility to create a good working environment.”
The Executive Board will not file a case against the Inspectorate of Education. This was stated in email to all staff on Wednesday morning, 20 March. Delta talked to Rector Tim van der Hagen about it.
The internal trade unions at TU Delft pose ‘serious questions about the continuity of the change processes required by the Inspectorate of Education’. Two Board members will only be in office for a relatively short period to come, while the unions believe that changing a culture needs long-term stable leadership.
All TU Delft staff members can share their ideas about creating a safer working environment with the Works Council (OR). The OR has invited all staff to a meeting on Wednesday 20 March. The OR will share the ideas with the Executive Board, that is planning to submit its plan of action to the Inspectorate of Education on 19 May at the latest.
The central and local representation councils at TU Delft are not in agreement with the ‘highly unempathetic’ way in which the Executive Board responded to the Inspectorate’s report. ‘We expected more self-reflection’, writes the Works Council.
An anonymous group of people from TU Delft, the Students and Staff for Safety, started a petition against the plan of the Executive Board and the Supervisory Board to bring the Inspectorate of Education to court. Delta interviewed them by email.
For the first time, one of the spaces in the EEMCS Faculty bears the name of a woman. It is Johanna Manders, one of the first women to graduate in Electrical Engineering. ‘If the name attracts just one young women to come and study here, the goal has been achieved.’
Executive Board member Marien van der Meer has ‘the fullest confidence’ that TU Delft can take ‘steps forward’ to ‘also become a top university in social safety’. She said this during her first public appearance since the Inspectorate of Education’s crushing report on social safety was published.
The four unions affiliated with TU Delft do not want the Executive Board to take the Education Inspectorate to court. In a statement to its members, the unions write that many TU Delft employees do not support the board’s view.
