The House of Representatives voted in favour of a special student quota for international students on 15 February. A majority no longer wants to wait for outgoing Education Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf’s bill including the same measure.
The current selection procedures for popular courses for students can exacerbate inequality of opportunity. Higher education must do more to prevent this, says outgoing Education Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf. He anticipates that student selection will assume even greater importance in the future.
More Dutch language-taught courses for undergraduates and fewer students coming from abroad? The initial response to universities’ own plans for achieving this goal is positive.
At the earliest in the 2025-2026 academic year, the Aerospace Engineering bachelor degree programme will have a Dutch-English language track alongside the English one.
The universities will be creating a Dutch track for all major English-taught Bachelor’s programmes. Some programmes are even switching back to Dutch altogether.
If it’s up to the Dutch Education Council, outgoing Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf will take more time to think about his bill, which aims to reassert control over the internationalisation. This bill is creating too much uncertainty, says Chair Edith Hooge.
Assistant Professor Alessandro Bombelli (Aerospace Engineering) is TU Delft’s Teacher of the Year. Delta asked him for exam tips. “Concentrate on the material rather than on the exam.”
The Faculty of Aerospace Engineering will introduce a preferential policy for female students in the next academic year. Thirty percent of the places will be reserved for women.
More than 700 first-year mechanical engineering students showed how far up the ramp their carts got on Monday and Tuesday. There was a lot of fun and ingenuity on display. And the occasional outlier.
