Trendy techTechnological degrees are gaining popularity in the Untied States, according to the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE).

Last Sunday, CDA politician Antoinette Vietsch read Delta 27 ”over coffee and cakes”. She was taken aback by the stories about foreign scientists and the visa delays for their partners and families (‘Red tape costs TU human capital’ and ‘Victim of the system’).

Once the leading computer science country of the former Soviet Bloc, Bulgaria is now powerless to stop its best minds fleeing to foreign universities, and taking some of the country%s hope for a brighter future with them.

Each month the English Page meets a member of TU Delft’s foreign community. Verónica Rubio, 27, from Quito, Ecuador, is a first-year MSc student studying Petroleum Reservoir Geology.

Every year, the third Tuesday of September is the day when the Queen reads the ‘Speech from the Throne’, outlining the government’s plans for the coming year.

Gloomy studentsMany of TU Delft’s first-year students are pessimistic about the future, according to a survey conducted by three Christian student societies.

The 2003-04 academic year is proving to be the year of the visa hassle. TU foreign students and researchers are suffering from a bureaucratic Dutch visa system that can%t handle the university%s relentless drive toward internationization.

TU Delft lost a valuable scientist in Dr. Eungyu Park, who resigned from TU Delft and returned to the US when his wife was denied a visa.In 2002, the prestigious NWO (Netherlands Scientific Research Organization) awarded TU Delft’s Department of Hydrology a grant for a project entitled ‘Characterization of Substitution Permeability’, led by TU researchers Professor Majid Hassanizadeh and Dr.

Angry RIAAThe American music industry has intensified its battle against music piracy on college networks. Last April, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sued four students for running networks that searched for MP3 music files.

Prime Minister Balkenende went to Washington to meet US President Bush. The two conservative Christian politicians have ”much in common”, according to Balkenende, who also discussed norms and values with Bush.