Paul Althuis, the driving force behind valorisation at TU Delft, has reached the pensionable age but he will continue to work. We look back and to the future.
A new party has come forward for the Student Council elections of 10 and 11 May. ‘Dé Partij’ thinks the current Council is invisible and wants to change this.
The security services have prevented an Iranian researcher from gaining knowledge at a Dutch TU that could have been used for Iran’s nuclear weapons programme.
Yet another student wins court case over energy allowance A student from Utrecht has won a court case and should still receive the 1,300 euro energy allowance that was available last year for low-income households. The municipality wrongly excluded students as a group – on the advice, by the way, of the cabinet…
Activists blindfold Hugo de Groot “The city of Delft, home to one of the world’s most honoured scientific institutes, should do everything in its power to hold our leaders to account.” This is what Extinction Rebellion Delft writes in a press release accompanying its action on Sunday 16 April: blindfolding the statues…
Action group End Fossil is going to occupy educational institutions worldwide in May. There are also plans in Delft. TU Delft calls it ‘regrettable’.
Higher education minister: more courses in Dutch Dutch as a language of education, science and science communication is relevant throughout higher education, thinks (in Dutch) higher education minister Dijkgraaf. He agrees with the Dutch Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), which asked parliamentary questions about this, ‘that Dutch (or if necessary multilingual) education should be…
Survey into the position of scholarship PhDs The Dutch PhD Network (PNN) wants to find out more about the working conditions and financial position of international scholarship PhD candidates. Are they treated like other PhD candidates or not? “It cannot be explained”, says PNN president Anneke Kastelein. Too often, distressing stories emerge…
Which universities abroad is it not advisable for TU Delft staff to work with and on what subjects? A new intranet site answers questions about knowledge security.
Rubicon grant for EEMCS researcher Research funders NWO and ZonMw are giving 16 newly promoted scientists a Rubicon grant to gain experience at a foreign knowledge institution. They are nine men and seven women. Almost all of them will go abroad for two years. For example, they are doing research on how to…
