Every year, the third Tuesday of September is the day when the Queen reads the ‘Speech from the Throne’, outlining the government’s plans for the coming year.
Gloomy studentsMany of TU Delft’s first-year students are pessimistic about the future, according to a survey conducted by three Christian student societies.
The 2003-04 academic year is proving to be the year of the visa hassle. TU foreign students and researchers are suffering from a bureaucratic Dutch visa system that can%t handle the university%s relentless drive toward internationization.
TU Delft lost a valuable scientist in Dr. Eungyu Park, who resigned from TU Delft and returned to the US when his wife was denied a visa.In 2002, the prestigious NWO (Netherlands Scientific Research Organization) awarded TU Delft’s Department of Hydrology a grant for a project entitled ‘Characterization of Substitution Permeability’, led by TU researchers Professor Majid Hassanizadeh and Dr.
Angry RIAAThe American music industry has intensified its battle against music piracy on college networks. Last April, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sued four students for running networks that searched for MP3 music files.
Prime Minister Balkenende went to Washington to meet US President Bush. The two conservative Christian politicians have ”much in common”, according to Balkenende, who also discussed norms and values with Bush.
Architect George Taran, 30, from Sofia, Bulgaria, is a 1999 graduate of TU Delft.I left Bulgaria when I was 17-years-old and enrolled at TU Delft as an undergraduate after two years of Dutch high school.
UnveiledDutch universities have agreed to prohibit students from wearing veils. According to the VSNU, the national association of Dutch universities, students’ faces must be clearly visible.
Not dumberThis week Dutch Premier Balkenende opened the academic year with a speech at Leiden University in which he stated that the Netherlands isn’t a dumber country than other countries, but the nation must learn better ”how to use its head”.
What causes you the most anxiety? Each month the English Page meets a member of TU Delft’s foreign community. Tuur van Beelen (22), from Leuven, Belgium, is a 5th year Industrial Design student.
