SebastiaansbrugAfter months of rebuilding, the Sebastiaansbrug Hostel is once again open. The interior of the 14 year old, Duwo-owned housing complex for short-stay foreign students has been completely renewed.
The floors, windows, tables, desk and beds of the 101-room hostel have all been renewed. Every room now has a TV and DVD player. The SSH, the Duwo department that offers temporary housing to foreign students, currently has more than 1,300 apartments and rooms at its disposal.
Hema
Peter Noorlander and Bob van Vliet, both fourth year students at TU Delft’s Industrial Design Faculty, have one the first and second prize in the 2004-05 Hema Design competition. Noorlander won first prize for storage box system called the ‘The White Box’. It is a simple assembly system consisting of 6 separate plastic panels that are held together with a colored strap. Van Vliet won second prize for a storage case with a lid, called the ‘Kist/Kast’
Internships
The student unions LSVB and ISO are unhappy with the quality of the internships being offered to students. The unions are demanding that an educational inspection team be formed to study the situation, but Under-Secretary for Education Mark Rutte is resisting such a move. The unions say the quality of the internships is poor in all respects. The ISO has received complaints from students about the internship guidance, the level of work, the connection with the theoretical aspects of the students’ educations, the manner in which students are evaluated and the pay that internships receive. An inspection team would then investigate the internships they received complaints about and issues warnings when the quality is substandard. The student unions are supported by MKB-Nederland, an organization that arranges internships on behalf of small and medium-sized Dutch businesses. Rutte agreed that the “situation is very serious”, but before acting, he wants to receive a detailed report on the subject.
Gulf contract
WL/Delft Hydraulics has won a contract worth 80,000 euro to conduct research in Bahrain. The island nation in the Persian Gulf wants WL/Delft to help the country’s ambitious plan to build a 2,000 hectare island in the sea, according to the Gulf Daily News. Bahrain wants to build a city on the island for 130,000 residents. WL/Delft Hydraulics, active in the Gulf region, also advises the Arab emirate Dubai.
Extra cash
Good news for faculties: this year they will receive an extra ten million euro for projects proposed by the faculty deans. The extra available funds are thanks to TU Delft’s strong financial results this year. TU Delft’s reorganisation of its support services has saved the university a lot of money over the past years. In future, much more money will be made available to faculties for education and research.
New building
The Architect bureau Royal Haskoning, based in Amsterdam, has been awarded the contract to design the new Haagse Hogeschool building, which will be built on the TU Delft campus. The building must be built by 2008 and will be located on the Rotterdamseweg 137, where currently the Netherlands Institute for Metal Research (NIMR) building stands. The NIMR building will be demolished.
Sebastiaansbrug
After months of rebuilding, the Sebastiaansbrug Hostel is once again open. The interior of the 14 year old, Duwo-owned housing complex for short-stay foreign students has been completely renewed. The floors, windows, tables, desk and beds of the 101-room hostel have all been renewed. Every room now has a TV and DVD player. The SSH, the Duwo department that offers temporary housing to foreign students, currently has more than 1,300 apartments and rooms at its disposal.
Hema
Peter Noorlander and Bob van Vliet, both fourth year students at TU Delft’s Industrial Design Faculty, have one the first and second prize in the 2004-05 Hema Design competition. Noorlander won first prize for storage box system called the ‘The White Box’. It is a simple assembly system consisting of 6 separate plastic panels that are held together with a colored strap. Van Vliet won second prize for a storage case with a lid, called the ‘Kist/Kast’
Internships
The student unions LSVB and ISO are unhappy with the quality of the internships being offered to students. The unions are demanding that an educational inspection team be formed to study the situation, but Under-Secretary for Education Mark Rutte is resisting such a move. The unions say the quality of the internships is poor in all respects. The ISO has received complaints from students about the internship guidance, the level of work, the connection with the theoretical aspects of the students’ educations, the manner in which students are evaluated and the pay that internships receive. An inspection team would then investigate the internships they received complaints about and issues warnings when the quality is substandard. The student unions are supported by MKB-Nederland, an organization that arranges internships on behalf of small and medium-sized Dutch businesses. Rutte agreed that the “situation is very serious”, but before acting, he wants to receive a detailed report on the subject.
Gulf contract
WL/Delft Hydraulics has won a contract worth 80,000 euro to conduct research in Bahrain. The island nation in the Persian Gulf wants WL/Delft to help the country’s ambitious plan to build a 2,000 hectare island in the sea, according to the Gulf Daily News. Bahrain wants to build a city on the island for 130,000 residents. WL/Delft Hydraulics, active in the Gulf region, also advises the Arab emirate Dubai.
Extra cash
Good news for faculties: this year they will receive an extra ten million euro for projects proposed by the faculty deans. The extra available funds are thanks to TU Delft’s strong financial results this year. TU Delft’s reorganisation of its support services has saved the university a lot of money over the past years. In future, much more money will be made available to faculties for education and research.
New building
The Architect bureau Royal Haskoning, based in Amsterdam, has been awarded the contract to design the new Haagse Hogeschool building, which will be built on the TU Delft campus. The building must be built by 2008 and will be located on the Rotterdamseweg 137, where currently the Netherlands Institute for Metal Research (NIMR) building stands. The NIMR building will be demolished.
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