Dream Team presents hanging Hyperloop The TU Delft Hyperloop team presented a spectacular new design concept last week: the TU Delft capsule or ‘pod’ hangs from a rail instead of standing on it. The upside-down concept improves the stability of the system. This should make it easier to change tracks at high speed.…
Het Delftse Hyperloopteam presenteerde vorige week een spectaculaire nieuwe ontwerpbenadering: de Delftse capsule of ‘pod’ hangt onder de rails in plaats van dat-ie erop staat. De omgekeerde benadering verbetert de stabiliteit van het systeem. Daardoor moet het makkelijker worden om met hoge snelheid van spoor te wisselen. Delft Hyperloop IV is…
War in Ukraine: X opens its living room for students TU Delft’s sports and culture centre, X, will open its living room on Friday evening, 25 February, between 8 PM and 10 PM as a ‘safe space to share thoughts and emotions about the current situation in Ukraine’. Students and staff can walk…
English debate ahead of Municipal Council Elections The Municipal Council Elections are coming up soon. On Wednesday March 16 all European citizens of 18 years of age or older and non-EU citizens who have been registered in the municipality for a minimum of 5 years, can vote. But who to vote for?…
‘Secondary jobs for tax lawyers at the University of Amsterdam lead to integrity problems’ Almost all University of Amsterdam (UvA) tax law professors have a secondary function at large law or tax consultancy firm, writes university magazine Folia. These sometimes influence their academic publications. Several tax law lecturers at the UvA reported…
Op dit moment is het kabinet niet van plan om de compensatie te verhogen voor studenten zonder basisbeurs, zegt minister Sigrid Kaag van Financiën tegen de Tweede Kamer. Maar ze gooit de deur niet helemaal dicht. Woensdag sprak de Tweede Kamer met de minister van Financiën over het nieuwe regeerakkoord. Daarbij vroeg SP-Kamerlid Mahir Alkaya…
Research into better compensation ‘pechstudenten’ The Senate wants the Cabinet to investigate how students who have not received a basic grant (the so called ‘pechstudenten’) can be better compensated. Many political groups in the Senate find compensation of about one thousand euros per ‘pechstudent’ too meagre. Therefore, a majority of the Senate signed a…
Student protest: 1 cent to DUO More than 1,700 students have transferred a symbolic 1 cent to DUO. By doing so, they draw attention to the “too low compensation” for the missed basic grant. The action was initiated by the protest movement #nietmijnschuld and is supported by the National Union of Students…
Caribbean students may receive bsn numbers from DUO The Cabinet wants to remove obstacles for students from the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. They will receive a national identity number (bsn number) if they are going to study here and they might also receive a scholarship. This became apparent during a debate…
‘Save declining tidal areas’ On Thursday 17 February 2022, representatives of Boskalis, WWF and Deltares presented a joint plan during the SpraakWater webinar to turn the tide through a ‘national sediment strategy’. The webinar series is a WWF initiative on discussing ‘natural solutions’ for the Dutch Delta. The sediment strategy involves strengthening slabs…
