Climate activists occupied a hall in the Mechanical Engineering faculty this Monday morning. They stayed until they had to go. Delta was there all day and covered the occupation in this live blog.
Given the last election results, the conversation about international students in the Netherlands – as well as the internationalisation of universities in the Netherlands – is as relevant as ever. Will the Netherlands continue to welcome international students? And do international TU Delft students worry about the current political climate?
A TU Delft student did a heroic deed on 18 January. He freed a woman from her car that had tumbled head over heels into the frozen canal in front of his house on the Kolk.
If universities are short of money, they may give new assistant professors in permanent employment a lower starting grant than originally agreed.
Universities do not have to offer employment to international PhD candidates with scholarships. Minister of Education Dijkgraaf considers this too costly, was his answer to a CDA parliamentary motion. This surprised the PhD Network Netherlands.
Architecture students have designed a rural house for earthquake victims in Turkey, which they are set to build and test. Delta attended the design reveal.