20 million for delayed researchers divided After four months of negotiations, 20 million euros have been allocated for researchers delayed by corona. More than 18 million euros will go to universities and over one million euros to various research institutes. 500 thousand euros have been allocated for young scientists who work abroad on a…
Erasmus grants for Scotland and Wales after all? At the end of December it was announced that the United Kingdom will discontinue the Erasmus+ programme. Prime Minister Boris Johnson finds participation too expensive and wants to launch a new British exchange programme. But according to the German MEP Terry Reintke and her colleagues, Scotland…
LSVb critical of proposed government exit strategy How long will it be before students and staff can go back to campus? The government is working on a roadmap for easing the lockdown. Don’t put higher education in the back row, warns the National Students’ Union LSVb. The LSVb makes this call in response to…
Three men arrested for swindling TU Delft The Delft police have arrested three suspects for swindling TU Delft and others. They are men of 20, 34 and 39 from Waddinxveen, Zaanstad and Rotterdam. They had tried to order two hundred robot vacuum cleaners under a false TU Delft domain name. Because the…
De TU Delft werkt momenteel aan een training die medewerkers moet leren om bewuster om te gaan met digitale systemen en data. Voor die training is de afdeling ICT Security op zoek naar medewerkers die input willen leveren. Vanaf maart wil ICT het trainingsaanbod van meerdere aanbieders onder de loep noemen om te onderzoeken welke methode…
Questionnaire about corona compensation The University PhD Council (UPC) wants to investigate how the TU spent the so called ‘wage margin’ that was reserved in 2020 for extending the contracts of temporary research workers who were delayed by corona. UPC has launched a survey together with the four trade unions at TU Delft, …
LSVb: stop online proctoring Many colleges and universities are still making use of online proctored exams, say the Dutch National Union of Students (LSVb). The organisation is calling on universities to reduce the use of online proctoring. The LSVb only examined the software of the company ProctorExam. Fifteen of the 21 educational institutions…
Students design exhibition The designs of 22 students of the minor Spaces of Display (Architecture and the Built Environment) can be seen in the exhibition Behind Closed Windows. The exhibition can be visited both online and physically. At the beginning of their minor in September the students chose between two collections of the Science…
Study debt repayment paused more often In 2020, DUO was asked to pause repayment of student loans more than 66,000 times. This is 3% to 10% higher than in previous years. This was revealed in figures that HOP (Higher Education Press Agency) requested from DUO, the education executive agency. The reason for the increase is…
Als er een avondklok komt, mogen studenten ’s avonds toch over straat als ze een tentamen hebben. Minister Grapperhaus van Justitie heeft dit donderdag toegezegd in de Tweede Kamer. Woensdag was er verwarring over studenten die tentamen moeten doen. Eerst had het kabinet laten weten dat de avondklok niet zou gelden voor deze studenten, maar later…
