‘Valorisation postdocs’ for entrepreneurial researchers Yesterday, the universities presented the ‘Faculty of Impact’, the first national postdoc programme focused on entrepreneurship and valorisation. Until 2025, three groups of ten young researchers will have two years after their graduation to develop their own idea as an entrepreneur. These ‘valorisation postdocs’ are under contract with a…
Dutch Senate slams anti-Englishification bill The Dutch Senate has questioned the law intended to slow down the Englishification of higher education. The law was prompted by the growing criticism of internationalisation and Englishification, particularly in higher academic education. What are all those foreign students doing here, critics asked. Do they use their talents and stay…
‘First-year students hardly know anyone from their studies’ The well-being of students is high on the agenda and the TU Delft community needs to work hard on it. That is the conclusion of Executive Board member Rob Mudde after Zoom meetings with students. Mudde organised the series of online…
Drone learns to see like an insect A team from TU Delft and the Westfälische Hochschule presents an optical flow-based learning process that allows robots to estimate distance on the basis of the visual properties (shape, colour, texture) of objects. ‘Optical flow’ means that insects perceive the speed at which…
Watching students taking exams Sikkom, the Groningen city blog, journalists revealed that outsiders could watch students taking their exams online. After the data leak at Hanze University Groningen had been exposed, exams were postponed. Via a link they received, the journalists could watch (in Dutch) students take exams in their living rooms. Their names…
Opt-out for 44 students During this examination period 44 students have requested an opt-out for one or more remote proctored examinations. The majority of these students study at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering. The 44 students have requested an opt-out for a total of 78 examinations. This means they will make the exam on…
Concerns about PhD students at AE The Faculty of Aerospace Engineering (AE) is going to offer online confidential talks to PhD students. The faculty is worried about this group of researchers. “Although we sympathise with all colleagues, we are concerned about our current PhD students,” writes the faculty in email with corona…
TU Delft aims for interfaculty education TU Delft expects that future education will increasingly be organised on an interfaculty or even interuniversity level. This means that instead of the traditional one Faculty, several Faculties will be responsible for a student’s education. The new ‘Pro Vice Rector Magnificus for Joint Educational Affairs’ Hans Hellendoorn will…
New incubator for student projects A new incubator for student projects officially opened its doors this week: the KD Campus, on the site of the former Dutch Kabelfabriek on the banks of the Schie River. The KD Campus is a place where student teams, affiliated with TU Delft, can work on various innovation projects,…
D66 wil studenten compenseren voor de studievertraging die ze door de coronacrisis oplopen. Dat zei fractievoorzitter Rob Jetten in de Tweede Kamer. Ook andere partijen maken zich zorgen om studenten. Urenlang sprak de Tweede Kamer woensdag over de aanpak van de coronacrisis op allerlei terreinen, zoals het onderwijs. Het ging vooral over het basis- en…
