No BSN for Caribbean students yet The National Ombudsman Reinier van Zutphen is once again sounding the alarm. Contrary to promises, new Caribbean students still have problems applying for their social security number (BSN), Van Zutphen warned during an interparliamentary consultation of delegations from Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten and the Netherlands. At the…
It is final: the basic grant is returning The Senate voted on Tuesday 6 June unanimously for the return of the basic grant. This means that from the coming academic year, students will once again be entitled to a monthly allowance that’s not a loan. The basic grant for HBO and WO…
ISO: Two-thirds of students with special needs experience problems Many students with a disability or ‘special circumstances’ experience study problems, as it turned out last year. The Intercity Student Consultation commissioned the Nijmegen agency ResearchNed to conduct further research into their obstacles. Nearly 1,500 students with a ‘support need’ from HBO…
Erik Scherff appointed new CIO of TU Delft The Executive Board (CVB) of TU Delft has appointed Erik Scherff as the new director of ICT, also known as Chief Information Officer (CIO), with effect from 1 August. The Executive Board announced this in an e-mail to TU Delft employees. Scherff succeeds Han Derkx,…
Symposium and talkshow on knowledge security Why is knowledge security important, how should a researcher or university guarantee it and how do TU Delft’s ‘industrial research partners’ view it? That is the subject of the English-language symposium ‘Knowledge Security: Why, how and the industrial perspective on collaboration’ that will take place in the…
Global support recognition and rewards We need to start ‘recognising and rewarding’ scientists in a different way, say 65 research funders from around the world in a joint statement. The distribution of research funds should not just be about numbers of publications and citations, but about ‘broad and holistic ways of recognition and…
Geothermal drilling on campus step closer The Leeghwaterstraat has been partially blocked off since the end of May for the purpose of the Geothermal Project. Steel structures with barges, containers and a tall lattice tower have been erected. They are preparations for drilling for hot water to a depth of 2.5 kilometres. …
DUO adjusts student finance application “There were students who were entitled to a supplementary grant, did not take it and eventually took out a loan,” minister Robbert Dijkgraaf told the Senate. “That is totally inexplicable, other than the fact that they were not informed in the right way.” The supplementary grant (soon…
Will Delft break the pipetting world record? The board of the Delft study association for nanobiology Hooke. (photo: S.V.N.B. Hooke) Transferring fifty milliliters of liquid from one cup to the other within five minutes with a pipette, with at least 250 people at the same time. That is what it takes to break…
Het bestuur van de Delftse studievereniging voor nanobiologie Hooke. (foto: S.V.N.B. Hooke) Met minstens 250 mensen tegelijkertijd binnen vijf minuten met een pipet vijftig mililiter vloeistof van het ene naar het andere bekertje verplaatsen. Dat is er voor nodig om het wereldrecord pipetteren te verbreken. Moet haalbaar zijn, dacht de…
