New initiatives against student nuisance      On Monday evening 23 May Delft residents and students from the Wippolder met for the second time to work on solutions to counteract nuisance caused by students. In small groups they worked on a short educational movie, a talk show, a flyer campaign and other ideas. “I found…

  On Monday evening Delft residents and students from the Wippolder met for the second time to work on solutions to counteract nuisance caused by students. In small groups they worked on a short educational movie, a talk show a flyer campaign and other ideas. “I found it an enormously constructive evening,” says Marie-José Hijnekamp,…

Students organise volunteer day     Under the name StudentDoet! Delft students are organising a volunteer day in Delft on Tuesday 31 May.   During the event, organized by Studenten Vrijwilligerswerk Delft (SVD) and Oras, as many students as possible will volunteer. They will organise a sports day at elementary schools and a benefit concert…

University of Applied Sciences ranks most sustainable     Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences is the most sustainable institution in Dutch higher education, winning the annual SustainaBul. The numbers two and three are the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Wageningen University. TU Delft is ranked 12 out of 33. It scores especially well on…

The right to award doctoral degrees     Since 2017, not only professors can award doctoral degrees, but also associate professors can do so. This week, an evaluation of the expanded right to doctoral defence was published. Delft University of Technology and Maastricht University are among the universities with the most non-professors who have the…

Queen Máxima and European Commissioner Mariya Gabriel on campus     Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, Mariya Gabriel, and Queen Máxima visited The Green Village together on Wednesday, a living lab where innovation helps transform the living environment. They were also given a tour of the labs of the Bionanoscience department of…

A car that weighs less than its driver     A car that at 67 kilograms is lighter than the average driver? On Monday, May 16, the students of Eco-Runner Team Delft unveiled their new car. With their Eco-Runner XII, the young engineers are competing in the Shell Eco-marathon, an international competition all about fuel-efficient…

Judge bans 4,000 new student homes in Amstelveen     The construction of new student housing in the vicinity of Schiphol Airport violates the aviation law, according to the Council of State. So plans for large-scale new housing next to the Uilenstede student campus are cancelled.   In the vacant Kronenburg office district, right next…

‘International students worth 1.5 billion a year’     Most international students leave when they graduate, but almost one in four still lives here five years later. After deducting costs, these highly educated people provide the treasury with 1.5 billion euro per year. This is evident from research conducted by internationalisation organisation Nuffic into the…

Conflict of interest at Leiden University     Leiden University has concealed the fact that the Dutch Tax Authority pays for a professor who researches the feasibility of tax legislation. Since 2015 the Tax Authorities pay most of the costs of the Leiden chair ‘Social and historical context of tax law’, reported the television programme…