Utrecht professor dismissed after complaints A Utrecht professor of clinical psychology has been dismissed for transgressive behaviour. Utrecht University received 17 reports, some of which also appear to concern his time at Maastricht University and the Free University (VU) of Amsterdam. The three independent media of those universities conducted a search for…
The coffee bars at the Faculties of EEMCS and CEG have to stop in mid-July. The new campus caterer Appèl wants to open its own coffee concept at these locations.
Coffee Star to stay on IDE square The Coffee Star on the square in front of the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE), Coffee & Bikes, may stay. The new campus caterer Appèl has signed an agreement with this subcontractor to that effect. Initially, Starbucks was also in the running for this location,…
A researcher at the 3mE Faculty started a petition to keep the Coffee Star on the square in front of the IDE Faculty. It was signed nearly 1,750 times.
‘Students duped by complex institutions’ Universities and universities of applied sciences are a legal jumble of legal entities, says the Inspectorate of Education in its report (in Dutch) Verwarring in Veelvoud (confusion in multitude). Even lawyers are getting lost. This is ultimately to the detriment of students and staff. The inspectorate finds that ‘current…
TU Delft plans to open a branch in Rotterdam which should become ‘a full campus with a substantial number of students’. In Delft, student numbers are to shrink from 2026.
Collection campaign for ‘unpaid’ teacher A lecturer in mathematics at TU Eindhoven was fired in 1995, but he himself thinks very differently. For 332 months he has been teaching students unpaid. One of them started a fundraising campaign, which has already raised more than 7,500 euros. Gert Regterschot’s lessons are wildly popular,…
Climate activists blindfold Delft statues Extinction Rebellion Delft climate activists have again blindfolded statues in their city on Sunday 11 June to draw attention to the climate crisis. Among the eight statues were Willem de Zwijger at Prinsenhof and the busts of J.C. van Marken & Agneta van Marken in Agnetapark. They were…
TU Delft wants to attract more Dutch students from migrant backgrounds, but CBS research shows that it it is not doing badly. What can still be improved?
Attention, apply for the basic grant yourself! From 19 June, students will have to apply to DUO for the basic grant themselves if they are entitled to it. They will not receive it automatically. After all, it is a ‘loan’, which is only waived if students graduate within ten years. With a campaign…
