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View allThe victims of the lack of social safety at TU Delft get caught in a web of hierarchical uncertainty, a lack of action and unequal power relationships, reveals an investigation by Delta. This often worsens the situations of those seeking help. “TU Delft shattered me entirely.”
Ten rowing associations are signing a new cooperation agreement with inland shipping companies and the Province of South Holland for improved safety on water. What will the covenant mean in practice?
Researchers at Wageningen University (WUR) should not have lobbied on behalf of pesticide manufacturers. The university acknowledges that mistakes were made, and that “the appearance of a conflict of interest” arose following reports by the television programme Zembla.
Otto Kaaij has enjoyed his work as a Student Assistant at TU Delft for years. He says that it demonstrates the Feynman Technique in its purest form: learning something by explaining it to someone. And you get paid too.
The Executive Board sent the first progress report on social safety to the Inspectorate of Education on 1 October. It contains details about measures that are intended to improve social safety.
If all Bachelor’s programmes became Dutch-taught, higher education would shrink by 8.6 percent, researchers from Groningen have calculated. International students and scientists will stay away and this will end up costing the Netherlands a lot of money.
Cutbacks or not, the workload in science must be reduced. That is what Minister Eppo Bruins writes to the House of Representatives. It’s “worrying” that after all these years, universities haven’t turned words into deeds.
Bob van Vliet, a design teacher, always waves away the sceptical reactions of students when he asks them to learn to draw and sketch by hand. He firmly believed that it is purely a question of practice. Until he met someone for whom that really wasn’t the case.
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