International student pays more for the same room International students face higher rents per square metre than Dutch students, according to the Dutch Student Union (LSVb). The housing market is also less welcoming to non-domestic students. Last year, the LSVb received 525 complaints from international students via its Housing Hotline, a website…
NWO chairman offers his apologies The Chairman of the National Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), Marcel Levi, has apologised for his latest column (in Dutch). In it, he stated that the term safety is in danger of becoming a fashionable and meaningless buzzword ‘for really all situations in which you don’t quite get your…
Delta archive is available online An article with the headlines ‘Battery is Achilles’ heel of electric car’ might be a current post, but Delta predecessor THD Nieuws already wrote about this 40 years ago. In October 1982 to be precise. Dozens of annual volumes of Delta issues (and those of it’s predecessors) filled the high…
Leiden University removes painting of cigar-smoking men A painting showing cigar-smoking men has been removed from a room at Leiden University following complaints. The woman who took offence at it is receiving a flood of hateful messages. The painting by artist Rein Dool, made in the 1970s, shows the then Leiden University…
Students homeless after major fire A major fire in Amsterdam destroyed part of an apartment complex for students, starters and young status holders on Sunday. Dozens of container flats were lost. One resident has been arrested for arson. The fire in Amsterdam Nieuw-West was discovered Sunday morning, when many residents were still…
Rolf Hut tijdens een eerdere versie van het jaarlijkse evenement. (Foto: TU Delft Science Centre) Rolf Hut is de TU’s meest creatieve knutselaar Hij maakt surprises met een schakelaar. Met licht, effecten en geluid. Ja, dat pakt wel lekker uit. Wil je…
Fewer obstacles for Caribbean students The Dutch cabinet is removing an important obstacle for students from the Caribbean part of the kingdom. In the near future, they will receive a citizen service number (bsn) before their arrival in the Netherlands and if necessary, a new passport with that number in it. Previously,…
De VVD ziet graag dat de miljoenen voor samenwerkingsplannen tussen universiteiten bijdragen aan het “toekomstig verdienvermogen” van Nederland. Maar volgens minister Dijkgraaf is dat niet het hoofddoel van de zogenaamde ‘sectorplannen’. Die zijn volgens hem vooral bedoeld om de slimme samenwerking tussen universiteiten te stimuleren, én om ‘rust en ruimte’ te creëren via verlaging van de…
Model exhibition at Architecture How do you sort and organise maquettes? By colour, size or in chronological order? In the exhibition ‘The sorting Act: Endless ways of organising the Architecture Collections’, you will discover the ways in which this can be done, based on various models made by students over the years. The exhibition…
‘Public defence of dissertation should be formality’ The rules of PhD programmes are not always clear, with sometimes painful consequences. The Dutch PhD candidates network (PNN) compared the PhD rules of 15 Dutch universities. This showed that in addition to the central PhD rules, there are all kinds of different, decentralised rules, which…
