Cambridge: all lectures to be online-only next academic year In the corona crisis, Cambridge University is looking more than a year ahead. Until the summer of 2021, all lectures will be online, the top university has announced. It is the first top university to make a decision about this. Most other institutions are not yet officially…

Million-dollar deal with Elsevier on open science Dutch universities and research institutes have reached an agreement with scientific publisher Elsevier on open access to publications and open science. Dutch researchers can now publish in open access in 95 percent of the Elsevier titles. Their articles will then be freely accessible to everyone, including interested outsiders.…

Want to study abroad? Want to study in Paris, Berlin or Barcelona for a few months? The question is, when will that be possible again? Dutch universities are considering postponing the international exchange for a while. The University of Amsterdam has already made the decision: students cannot go abroad on exchange after the summer holidays.…

Low turnout student council elections Despite the fact that the elections for the student council were as always held online this week, the turnout is low. 27.9 percent of TU Delft students voted for the council for the academic year 2020-2021, compared to 35.4 percent in 2019. There has been a downward trend for some…

Graduates get 535 euros back Anyone who graduates between September 2020 and the end of January 2021 will receive three months’ tuition fees back. For university students this is 535 euros. The Ministry of Education assumes that, without the corona crisis, many of these students would be ready sooner, but this will not be determined…